Today, most parents need to come to terms with living apart (working outside of their home country) while yearning for connection with their loved ones. They are synthesizing the best possible efforts and ideas to provide food, shelter, education, and love for their children.
Time will always test your flexibility. Wise decisions will make a difference in their lives. Your choice of work carries with it great responsibilities and great privileges, sometimes taking you away from your loved ones. Working abroad is looking for greener pastures and you bravely adapt to the new conditions of the new place. Living outside your home country is difficult to accept, and being separated from loved ones is psychologically disturbing not only for parents, but especially for a child. However, be thankful that you now live in the computer age and everything is just a click away to send messages and video calls, and enjoy the pleasure of chatting while doing other tasks. Outside your home, iPhone 3GS will close that gap. However, have you ever wondered how to spend quality time with your child to ease the loneliness he experiences while you’re away? How to build that close personal relationship between a father and a son in a long-distance communication is through personal experience that you could improve with the passage of time.
Availability. It is important that you allow your child to feel your presence most of the time. It is your daily task to video call him and ask him what happened during the day. Your child will be able to build trust and confidence to express the feelings of her. By asking, your child could explore the willingness to think rationally. Your presence can mean so much to him that he can be proud to tell other children about it.
Display. The power of your mind puts you in control, so your child will open his awareness to things communicated. Online storytelling would be great fun to allow you to share what you understand about the story that would eventually spark an open dialogue between a parent and child. Let your child also share his naive story and praise his wonderful storytelling. You are helping your child communicate and share her feelings. On visualization, it helps to prolong the conversation, which makes it more exciting for your child to create his own story from the visual perception of it. Listening from him is a great role as a parent.
Make fun. Spice things up when you make an online call to your child. A child will never be without a bedtime game plan, and he wants to capture every bit of it for maximum joy. If he wants to pretend to be a superhero, let him feel the thrill. If he insists on typing his name on the computer, just let him do it and praise his work by sending him some emoticons like a star, a smiley face, or a heart. There are webcams to animate your video image into animation where your child could start a fairy talk. Take an interest in making your child’s world more exciting and fun.
Twist and invite. Using your webcam or mobile phone, you can walk around your home and let him see your bedroom, TV, cabinet and other things, so that he also knows that you are living well. You can also show him the photos you bring and save all the time, and tell him how much you loved and treasured them. It is more fascinating if you promise that you will get it and that you will live with it.
Saying goodbye. The sad part of the conversation is the parting moment. Let your child feel that they are not being separated, but only because of a bedtime routine and the need to rest, a complete reading of a bedtime story would complete your child’s night, and before signing out, Extend your arms, as if you were reaching out to your child for a hug. Forming your hands into a heart shape is an additional way to say goodbye. Last thing, tell him you love him, and always make sure you’ll see him again.