So many ways to show the love!
There are so many ways to show your teen some love! You can start with just a quick hug or fist bump. Teens love food, so that is always a good way to show love.
This post has 21 easy, mostly inexpensive and fun ways to show your teen some love. You can save the few more expensive or time-intensive options for special occasions.
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Here are 21 ways to show your teen some love
#1 Show Your Teen Some Love: Bake something
•Bake brownies or cookies or whatever treat that you know they love!
#2 Show Your Teen Some Love: Order food
•Order their favorite pizza or sandwich or whateveer…
#3 Show Your Teen Some Love: Write something
•Write a quick note on a post-it -uplifting, motivational or just some simple words of love. Stick it on their bathroom mirror or bedside table for them to easily find.
#4 Show Your Teen Some Love: Send a text
•Send a text. Make it corny with lots of emojis.❤️😎
#5 Show Your Teen Some Love: Snail mail
•Write an actual letter or card. Send it through the mail so that it comes to them in the mailbox.
#6 Show Your Teen Some Love: Candy
•Put chocolate kisses or other favorite candy on their pillow.
#7 Show Your Teen Some Love: Sugarwish
#8 Show Your Teen Some Love: Wordcloud
•Create a word cloud. (In my video, I misspoke. I guess that I had wordle in my brain. Here is a description of what a word cloud is: “a word cloud is a collection, or cluster, of words depicted in different sizes. The bigger and bolder the word appears, the more often it’s mentioned within a given text and the more important it is.”
#9 Show Your Teen Some Love: Advent calendar
•Order an advent calendar for an upcoming holiday. Here are some Christmas Advent calendars and here are some Valentines Advent calendars. They even now have Halloween countdown calendars now!…
#10 Show Your Teen Some Love: Movie tickets
•Buy them a gift certificate to the local movie theatre.
#11 Show Your Teen Some Love: Kudos
#12 Show Your Teen Some Love: Coupons
•Create coupons for things that they will love, you can also purchase the coupons to fill out, and here are cute ones from Etsy. (ex: backscratch, no Saturday chores, extra gaming time…)
#13 Show Your Teen Some Love: Gift certificate
•Give them a gift certificate to their favorite store.
#14 Show Your Teen Some Love: Ice cream
•Grab a milkshake from their favorite ice cream shop.
#15 Show Your Teen Some Love: Old photos
•Put out some old pictures or an old photo album to look and enjoy together for a few minutes. (or an old family movie)
#16 Show Your Teen Some Love: Cash
•Give them some money just because -even just $5 is great!
#17 Show Your Teen Some Love: Favorite meal
•Make their favorite meal.
#18 Show Your Teen Some Love: Clothing
•Give them a new graphic t-shirt from a favorite band or show.
#19 Show Your Teen Some Love: Breakfast in bed
•Serve them breakfast in bed.
#20 Show Your Teen Some Love: Mental health day
•Schedule a mental health day together. (set up the expectations before hand about how this will look)
#21 Show Your Teen Some Love: Socks
Get them some fun socks!
Listen to a few of these ideas and some other thoughts, and don’t forget to check out the links below this video…
There are so many reasons that answer the question, “How Do I Show My Teen Some Love?”
Our teens need more love than ever. They have so much on their plates what with school, grades, jobs, sports or performances, and worrying about what their next life step is…
Let’s not forget how much they need to feel, see and hear love from us to get through these fun, but stressful days. I hope that my ideas for ways to show love to your teen help you in this endeavor.
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