How to Really Love Your Child

children and their parents. He doesn’t hesitate to share himself and his own family experiences in illustrating what he has to say.
This is a book you will want to read and reread—it’s that loaded with practical, usable information

and their parents. He doesn’t hesitate to share himself and his own family experiences in illustrating what he has to say.
This is a book you will want to read and reread—it’s that loaded with practical, usable information! Both your mind and your heart will tell you the words in this book are true.
The late Ben Haden
Speaker, Changed Lives,
Chattanooga, Tennessee

It’s apparent, then, how important it is for a boy to receive just as much or more affection as a girl during the early years. As a boy grows and becomes older, his need for physical affection such as hugging and kissing lessens, but his need for physical contact does not. Instead of primarily “ooey-gooey love stuff,” he now wants “boy-style” physical contact such as playful wrestling, jostling, backslapping, playful hitting or boxing, bear hugs, and high fives. These ways of making physical contact with a boy are just as genuine a means of giving attention as hugging and kissing. Don’t forget that a child never outgrows the need for both types.

physical affection, ceases. Actually a boy’s need for physical contact never ceases, even though the type of physical contact he needs does change.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith also thought that as a boy gets older, his need for affection, especially

We need to incorporate physical and eye contact in all of our everyday dealings with children. This contact should be natural and comfortable, rather than showy or overdone. Children growing up in a home where parents use eye and physical contact will be comfortable with themselves and other people.

Both the quality of the parent-child bond and the child’s security largely depend on the quality of the marital bond.