Whether you bond with your kids around the dinner table or underneath an old car, we dads each have our own ways to connect with our children. We recently asked the modern dads of our Facebook community to tell us how they bond with their modern children and we love what we heard. Here’s a taste of the fun you guys are having with your kids.
What are ways you connect with your kids?
Posted by Life of Dad on Sunday, February 5, 2017
Eoin McQuaid: Get down on the floor and play with them, let your own inner child out to play.
Chris Baker: Dinner every night with no electronics at the table.
Andy Manfred: My 2 year old son and I walk and talk. We point things out to each other. Two days ago we walked almost a mile and a half! Recently we started riding. Rain or snow!
Timothy Martinez: Good old fashion let’s go outside and play some football with my son and daughter.
Ali A. Syed: Sing their favourite poems with them during bath. My li’l one loves to yell “e ya ee ya oooo” and gets excited when I join him.
Jose Fred Tadeo: Going out to different fun events together. Such as concerts, the circus, musicals. Those are shared experiences that will be remembered and there’s plenty to talk about after.
Robert Weber: We work on cars together.
Isaac Azur: Because I’m a single dad it seems I’m always strapped for cash. So, I take her on hikes, daily park visits and picnics. She absolutely loves the movie theater so try to take her to the movies at least once a month. Otherwise we bond by playing, dress up, pretend ATM, drawing, arts and crafts and taking her out for bike rides. Eating and cooking dinner Together is another way we bond. By nighttime she’ll usually pick out a book she’ll want me to read to her.
Nawras Alanbari: Star wars light saber battles as of recent in addition to 5-minute star wars story book every night. Next day we get to act out the story they heard the night before.
Sable Wheeler: True facts. And science. I will never be to old to learn. And the wonder in they’re eyes! Its magical. And there’s always things they can teach you.
Jeff Flores: Pokemon and DC Super Hero Girls.
Michael Dunn: Even if I know everything about it, I ask them to tell me about their favorite things and let them “teach me”.
Nate Johnson: Reading a book series and talking about it. My 15 year old daughter and I have been bonding over the “I am number four” series.