My number one goal as a mom is to make sure my children know I love them. As mothers, we can tell our kids we love them, but often our actions speak louder than our words.
So I like to find creative ways to show my kids they are deeply loved—and loved more than anything else in my life. It’s worth the time and effort. Here are 20 adorable ways to love your kids.
1. Leave a love note on their pillow.
2. Speak highly of them in front of others.
3. When you’re dropping them off at school, keep going instead of turning into the campus. Have a fun day doing some of their favorite things.
4. Let them choose the menu for a special meal.
5. Write or record your children’s birth story and share it with them.
6. Reward them for “just being you” with a little gift.
7. Make a date with your child and start the date by telling them why they’re fun to be with.
8. Talk about your favorite memories with them.
9. Give your child some Mom Time Coupons. 
10. Affirmation attack! Put signs in the front yard. Write one great quality about your child on each sign.
11. Make a short video on your phone talking about what you most love about them or your favorite memories with them.
12. Have their siblings and their dad write down “10 things I love about you” and then put them all together in a card or journal.
13. Make a scrapbook all about them.
14. Create a How You’ve Grown poster. Choose pictures of different stages in their life and things they love.
15. Give a stack of “Open When” letters in envelopes that say, “Open when you need encouragement,” or “Open when you need to laugh,” or “Open when you are having a good day.”
16. Write little messages of encouragement on sticky notes and put them where they won’t expect to find them.
17. Pick a scripture verse that exemplifies qualities you see in your child and write it on special paper or on a notecard they can keep.
18. Make a blessing jar. In the jar, put encouraging notes, scriptures, and things you love about them, plus their favorite candies or other goodies.
19. Put a banana in their lunchbox and write a message on it with markers.
20. Write on the bathroom mirror in lipstick so they find encouraging words from you when they wake up in the morning.
Here are a few other ideas to love your kids well. And some practical tips too.
What other fun ideas do you have to let your kids know they are loved?
