Connecting with your daughter.

God gave me daughters! Sometimes I wonder what He was thinking. Boys you wrestle, mess up their hair, watch a movie with them or build stuff. Instead I have complicated, emotional, feeling, little ones.

I’m not sure how you grew up, but I am Gen X, so parenting looked a lot differently than it does now. I am determined to have a more connected relationship with my daughters. So I decided my oldest daughter and I were going to do a this thing.

Because I was introducing something new and something I wasn’t sure she would like - I made it a special day. We went shopping together. She got to pick out where we went to lunch. At lunch I invited her to join me in completing this journal, "Just between Us."

That's it.

She liked the idea of having a way to "talk" with me that was just for us. When she asked about the order, I said there were no rules. She said YES!

I'm excited for the opportunity to connect with my daughter in another way, in her time, in her words. Grateful she wants to do this with me!

(It works! Tonight she came home and got mad at her sister and then at me. She grabbed the journal and started writing. She delivered it to me a little calmer and said its for you to read now. )

I am determined to fiercely protect and invest in our relationship. I just found another tool! I'm sharing this in case you have a daughter and are looking for ways to connect with her.

Parenting is not an activity to do alone. We need each other!

Do you have something you have done to connect with your children? Do you have a resource to share with me?