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Reply to "My child's "love language" is "physical touch," and mine is not. Suggestions? "
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[quote=Anonymous]OP, how old is your child? Part of it may be who your child is, and part of it may be just where she is developmentally. I actually am a pretty touchy person and so is my DD, so this isn't a problem for us. You've gotten a lot of criticism but a few nuggets of advice too. Can you say, for example, "Ok, we're going to snuggle for 5min and then you are going to play legos and I'm going to read my book." Often times my 2YO DD will now sit down next to me and we'll read our books together. Can you find things to do together in close proximity - read, bake cookies, color - where you can occasionally have contact (e.g. helping her stir the cookie batter) but aren't nonstop touching? Would that perhaps help both of you? Enlist your DH or a mother's helper or something to also give you some alone time each day, even if it's just 15min to allow you some physical space which may help re-center you to accept more of your daughter's need for touch.[/quote]
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