Today’s Love Your Child Month tip is about giving your children appropriate ways to feel valued. If you don’t, they will seek attention in all of the wrong places. Ways to help them feel valuable are to ask their advice, give them choices, let them help you balance your check book, cook all or part of a meal, or help you shop. A two-year-old can wash plastic dishes, wash vegetables, or put silverware away. Often we do the job for them because we can do it with less hassle, but by encouraging them to take an active role in your family unit, they understand their own value.

What’s one household activity you can share with your child today to make them feel important?