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Perhaps not as obvious as calling, but the option of staying connected with the children you love by sending sweet somethings is a great way to mix things up, and yet another fun way to keep your connection going – and to help it rise to new heights.  Try these ideas and, remember, have fun with the children you love when you’re apart.

1. Send text messages and/or pictures to the children you love, via the home ‘hotline’ (see last week’s post), the caregiver/s’ phone, tablet or computer, or to them directly, if they have their own phone, tablet or computer.
2. Send the children you love letters, postcards or cards. Make your postcards an educational experience, with interesting facts about where you are. Visit Amazon to purchase some blank postcards, which you can design and complete; or visit Amazon to purchase some ‘Where in the World is Waldo’ postcards, perfect for the world (or frequent) traveller.
3. Take one of their favourite toys with you and take pictures of it in different places on your travels or in your day-to-day life. Send the pictures electronically or in hard-copy format (add them to the blank postcards noted above).
4. Every now and then, send the children you love a care package. An old-fashioned ‘care package’ goes a long way, including a few small trinkets, photos, some cookies and a hand written letter. Alternatively, you could simply send a small gift through Amazon.com. Try to include gifts that are educational in nature, for example age appropriate books about the kind of work you do, the place you are  visiting/working/living (including current or historic facts), on the difficulties of being apart, about feelings and/or related to something they are learning at school. Check out the following titles on Amazon about the difficulties of being apart,: Don’t Want To Be Apart; and The Invisible String; and See You Later, Alligator
5. Take the number for the children you love’s favourite delivery service and, every now and then, in coordination with the caregiver/s left behind, send the children you love a surprise meal. If you can, call them to share in the taste-bud extravaganza! (virtually of course :-))
6. Send video messages to the children you love, via the home ‘hotline’, the caregiver/s’ phone, tablet or computer, or directly, if they have their own phone, tablet or computer. This is a particularly useful strategy if, for whatever reason, you can’t call on a particular day, or at a particular time. Just prerecord a message and send it in advance.
7. Keep a shared online photo folder (for example those offered in iPhotos on an apple device), a website, a group page on Facebook, etc, or make and send a hard copy photo album. Ask the children you love, or their caregiver/s, to do the same, and to keep the shared online album updated. Ideally, link the online album to the hotline, established in commitment two. Try Snapfish for physical albums.
8. Try sending a sweet ‘wake-up’ message once in a while, so the children you love can start the day with a warm welcome from you. You can also ask them to send something to you, so that you can start your day on an equally inspiring foot.
9. Encourage the children you love to send you an ‘away package’, full of things that they are proud of: a piece of work from school; a drawing; a short story; a photo; one of their favourite sweets; a favourite toy. Promise to reciprocate.
10. Share a hobby. Do you like chess? Play a game long distance – over a week, or even a month. Visit Amazon to purchase this item. Do the children you love like stamps? Perfect! Send them some from wherever you are. Do they like Pokemon, or other trading cards? Send them a few every now and then! Visit Amazon to purchase this item. Find a hobby that you can both enjoy together, and which keeps you in their mind, while also strengthening your loving connection.

Find some more free ideas on this and other topics under ‘Commitment Three‘ at ConnectedApart.

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Just when you thought the batcave might have all the answers, ConnectedApart turns things on it’s head. While we all might want one (minus the bats and the dripping water), we definitely don’t NEED a batcave to stay connected with the children we love when we’re apart. What you really need is a hotline over which you and the children you love can interact while you’re apart (no secret passages or sliding poles required). Setting one up is as easy as 1, 2, 3, with these ten simple ideas…

1. Invest in one dedicated iPad, with the largest screen possible (so the children you love can see more of you, literally!). Visit Amazon to purchase this item.
2. Strip the device of all unnecessary apps;
3. Include your preferred choice of app for day-to-day communications (e.g. for text, phone and video calls) and place them in an easy to see spot on the device;
4. Include a clock with the time zone of the place your travelling to;
5. Set restrictions (parental controls), including with regard to your selected internet browser;
6. Add a few bookmarks about the place to which your travelling;
7. Add a home screen – and screen saver – with your picture, and pictures of you and the children you love;
8. Add a folder of pictures of you;
9. Add a folder of videos of you. Include a number of special video messages to the children you love. Include video messages for: day-to-day ups and downs; special occasions; and to mark major milestones during your time apart, if your going to be away for a long duration. Include videos of you reading books and/or singing their favourite songs, including any lullabies you might be in the habit of crooning; and
10. Plan regular interactions, including when you will call (see calendar ideas, under Commitment Two at ConnectedApart ).

Stay connected with the children you love when you’re apart by bookmarking ConnectedApart.com, by joining the ConnectedApart Community on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter (and by sharing your ideas) and by signing up for ConnectedApart’s free idea-letter, delivered once-monthly, directly to your inbox.

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Its the most obvious way to connect with the children you love when you’re apart. But don’t let it become the most monotonous. Spice things up in your regular calling routine, with these simple ideas, and stay connected – and deepen the connection – with the children you love when you’re apart.

1. Call the children you love as often as you can by video, either via a ‘hotline’ (see next week’s post), the caregiver/s’ phone, tablet or computer, or directly, if they have their own phone, tablet or computer (and you have the permission of their caregiver). If you’d like to purchase an iPad for the children you love, to set up a ‘hotline’, visit Amazon to purchase this item.
2. Try to agree, with both the children you love and the caregiver/s left behind, a specific time/s to call. Perhaps over breakfast or during dinner on weekdays, at bedtimes and/or at the start of the day on weekends. Not only is this a helpful thing to do (in both the home of the children you love and in your own life) for logistical reasons, but it also gives the children you love some predictability, and avoids their having to chase you to reach you (which in turn will damage your connection, and might leave the children you love feeling insecure).
3. Its ideal to use video for calls to call the children you love when you’re apart, but don’t let the feasibility of this interfere with the call itself. If it’s not possible to make a video call, just revert to the phone. Its better to hear your voice, than not to hear from you at all.
4. Assume responsibility for keeping the conversation going. You will want the attention of the children you love, but they will need yours. So, think of conversation primers and be prepared for some hard work. Sometimes, things might feel strained; sometimes, the call will come easy. At other times, you might be the only one doing the talking, whereas at sometimes, you might not be able to get a word in edgewise. Every call will be different – because you all come to them from different places, literally and emotionally. But you, as the adult, should always aim to serve as the facilitator. Go to each call anchored – and prepared with some conversations starters. Don’t force things though. Its also ok to finish a call earlier than expected and to try again next time.
5. Don’t be afraid to express your love openly over what might feel like an impersonal medium. There’s never a better time than right now to tell the children you love how you feel. After a while, with some effort, the medium (whatever it is you’re using – letter, text, email, phone, video call, etc) will feel less impersonal – and you’ll come to value it for the incredible opportunity that it presents to connect with the children you love, in so many meaningful ways.
6. Share your feelings about being apart. Be honest. Tell them it hurts and that you miss them. Give them the chance to share their feelings – allowing them to ‘pass’ if they don’t feel like. Keep modelling the incredibly healthy example of sharing your feelings in a warm, open and constructive manner and, sooner or later, they might start sharing theirs too. Being apart can grow into a strangely cathartic experience for the children you love sometimes.
7. If there’s more than one child you love in the same household, try to structure – and alternate – turn taking at call time. It limits competition for your attention, and hence unnecessary stress and allows you to better focus on each child – and their specific needs – individually.
8. Remember, one of the greatest causes of stress in life is unrealized expectations. To truly maintain and strengthen healthy loving connections with the children you love when you’re apart, you need to meet the commitments you make. If you need to miss a call, given problems wherever you are, or simply forget (yes, it happens to us all), text an apology to the children you love, or the caregiver left behind, and tell them when next you’ll be in touch. When you do finally reconnect, start off with an apology to the children love, and an explanation. They’re people too. Model the behaviour you’d hope to see in your own life. Finally, do your best not to let it become a habit. Remember, the children you love need to feel that you’re available. If you’re always missing calls, they won’t – and your connection (excuse the pun) will suffer.
9. Take the children you love on a video-tour of your immediate surroundings. Maybe it’s the ‘container’ (for those of you on long-term deployments with the United Nations), your bunkroom, your hotel room or your home. Let them get a feel for where you are, as best you can. A picture paints a thousand words. A video-tour paints even more: they can even ease nerves and anxieties of the children you love, who like to have a visual image of where you are and to know that you’re safe and sound.
10. Take the children you love on a video-tour of your local area, or further afield if it’s possible, safe and won’t frighten them (e.g. if you’re on a long term deployment with the armed forces). Make it an educational experience, as much as a fun one. Walk the neighbourhood, take them to a local park, take them on a taxi ride around the block or to a local landmark.

Find some more free ideas on this and other topics under ‘Commitment Three‘ at ConnectedApart.

Stay connected with the children you love when you’re apart by bookmarking ConnectedApart.com, by joining the ConnectedApart Community on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter and by signing up for ConnectedApart’s free idea-letter, delivered once-monthly, directly to your inbox.

Two other quick suggestions to remember:

• When it comes to commitment three, and remaining available and having fun, simplicity, dependability and routine are more important than large, unwieldy action plans, which leave you exhausted.
• Additionally, as they say in the military, “no plan survives first contact”: no matter how much you expect your day-to-day connections to go a certain way, they often don’t. You might be planning a 30 minute video chat, and – after multiple test runs – the connection doesn’t work; your dinner phone call might not be possible, given that the kid/s you love are exhausted – and someone just dropped their plate of pasta salad (on their brother); your virtual bookclub with your 15 year old isn’t possible, given that a certain teenager is having a crisis with what to wear tomorrow. While good planning is always important, try to stay flexible in how you chose to connect, and be prepared to roll with the punches and to adapt to realities ‘on the ground’.

Finally, as it is for all five commitments in the APART model, whatever you choose to do in Commitment Three will of course depend, among other things, on your relationship with the children you love, their age/s and the length of your time apart. So, pick some ideas from ConnectedApart’s free products and services and from ‘Commitment Three‘ to suit your own experience of being apart and stay connected with the children you love in your own special way. But remember, ConnectedApart is provided as a compliment to your imagination, not as a replacement! So, dream big, and come up with your own ideas for staying connected with the children you love (and please share them with the ConnectedApart community). Beautiful connections will follow.

Over the coming two months, ConnectedApart will be sharing more specific ideas from Commitment Three. So stay tuned – and stay connected!

Stay connected with the children you love when you’re apart by bookmarking ConnectedApart.com, by joining the ConnectedApart Community on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter (and sharing your ideas!) and by signing up for ConnectedApart’s free idea-letter, delivered once-monthly, directly to your inbox.

Helping the children we love with their homework is not only central to their intellectual and  emotional development, it also teaches self-discipline and, as Steve Jobs suggested, one of the most important determinants of happiness in today’s fast moving world, i.e.: perseverance.  Sure, it can be a hair pulling exercise, at least for those mere mortals among us with no teaching experience, but its a duty that we must lean into.

This is especially true when we’re apart. Not only can your loving assistance help to foster a stronger connection between you and the children you love, but it can also serve as a massive dose of ‘over the horizon relief’ for the caregiver left behind – who often feels like the unappreciated task master, while you get to skip in and out (virtually of course) with fun calls and carefree interactions.

But what to do? Try ConnectedApart’s ‘top five’ for starters:

1. Check in on homework: make sure, during your interactions, to supplement fun times with session on schoolwork, extracurricular activities and homework (not that this shouldn’t be fun too!). Offer to help with homework remotely, ask to see something that the child you love is doing in class – for example in terms of reading, writing, science, maths – and ask for a special demonstration of their favourite sport. You could make school work questions part of every call and/or schedule a special session once a week, to work on a particular subject/activity.
2. Start up ‘Problem Solving Central’: In addition to checking in on homework, hold a special session on problem solving: use child/age-friendly examples from your life and invite the children you love to share problems from their lives too. Its a nice way for you to connect with the real day-to-day challenges of the kid/s you love, and to teach problem solving skills at the same time.
3. Read books to the children you love – either take them with you, download one via amazon, or use an online service such as Levar Burton Kids’ Skybrary (just pick a book and hold the screen of one device up to the webcam of another) or something like readeo (with its ‘bookchat’ feature).
4. Ask the child/caregiver/s to install a particular educational app on their/the family’s tablet/iPad/computer, which you can play together. Then spend some time together with the kid you love, via video chat, while s/he plays the app, or play the game together.
5. Ask the school of the children you love whether they use, or would consider using, Seesaw. Its a great app to stay connected with what, and how, they are doing at school.

Check out some more free ideas on this and other topics under ‘Commitment Three‘ at ConnectedApart.

Stay connected with the children you love when you’re apart by bookmarking ConnectedApart.com, by joining the ConnectedApart Community on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter (and share your ideas!) and by signing up for ConnectedApart’s free idea-letter, delivered once-monthly, directly to your inbox.

When it comes to staying connected with the children you love when you’re apart, a little preparation before you leave makes all the difference. For this reason, ConnectedApart’s unique APART model includes ‘Preparation‘ as one of five committments for you to undertake, with the goal of ensuring that the experience of being apart is an enriching, rewarding and positive one for all. Along with your anchoring routine, preparation really isn’t something you should leave home without.

So, before you head out, for whatever reason and period, get things ready: in the heart, the home (and community) and the head with the following simple ideas from ConnectedApart. Rest assured that everything you do will, in some way, be helpful in maintaining and strengthening your connection with the children you love while you’re apart: from replacing a light bulb; to stocking the pantry; to talking about your time away; to spending quality time together before you hit the road.

The research is explicit: good preparation makes for an easier period away and for a smoother return.

For over 50 free ideas to prepare, many of which elaborate on those shared below, as well as tons of excellent related articles and reference material, check out ConnectedApart’s dedicated page on the Prepare Committment.

A. Ideas for the Heart

1. Review your feelings about your time apart and discuss them (in an age appropriate manner) with the children you love, as well as the caregiver/s left behind. Expect emotions (from excitement to fear and anger, among many others), detachment (or more attachment than usual) and conflict, especially if you’ll be away for a while. Just remind yourself that whatever happens, its all part and parcel of your upcoming period apart – and not a reflection on your relationship with the children you love, or with the caregiver left behind. For shorter, and perhaps more frequent, periods apart, the children you love might not bat an eyelid – at least not obviously. Remember, sometimes rivers run deep. Remain available, be reassuring, share your love and listen;
2. Schedule lots of time to connect before you leave, as a family and one on one.
3. Leave a mommy/daddy doll behind. Visit daddydolls.com for more;
4. Leave some photos behind. For some great ideas, check out snapfish.com;
5. Say farewell: Try not to prolong your departure – but also, don’t sneak out! Stay anchored, stay calm, be honest about what you’re feeling, but also matter of fact. Focus on the positive, share your love and say ‘farewell’ (because its not a ‘goodbye’). In 2009, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University prepared some useful guidance entitled ‘Make Goodbyes Easier for Children and Parents’. While general in nature, it’s a useful tool when preparing for a period apart from the children you love.

B: Ideas for the Home (and Community)
There are a ton of things that need to be thought through when it comes to getting things ready at home and in the community. In this respect, there are a lot of excellent checklists online, which offer helpful food for thought. While many are prepared for ‘military deployments’, they provide useful food for thought, whatever your circumstances and for however long you might need to be apart from the children you love. For example, in 2017, the United Services Automobile Association developed this useful checklist. ‘The Military Wife and Mom’ also has a free ‘deployment binder‘ and, finally, there is also this checklist from Everplan.

Basically, before you leave, whatever your circumstances and for however long you need to be away, you should think about the following categories to help the children you love and the caregiver/s left behind to carry on as smoothly as possible in your absence:

1. Financial;
2. Legal/administrative;
3. Transport/automobile;
4. Home care;
5. Communications;
6. Support networks;
7. Parenting/caring ‘policies’;
8. Emergencies.

In terms of communications, invest in one dedicated, portable ‘hotline’, over which you and the children you love can interact while you’re apart. An iPad is ideal, with the largest screen possible (so the children you love can see more of you, literally!). Visit Amazon to purchase this item. Prepare your hotline in the following way:

• Strip the device of all unnecessary apps;Include your preferred choice of app for day-to-day communications (e.g. for text, phone and video calls) and place them in an easy to see spot on the device;
• Include a clock with the time zone of the place your travelling to;
• Set restrictions (parental controls), including with regard to your selected internet browser;
• Add a few bookmarks about the place to which your travelling;
• Add a home screen – and screen saver – with your picture, and pictures of you and the children you love;
• Add a folder of pictures of you;
• Add a folder of videos of you. Include a number of special video messages to the children you love. Include video messages for: day-to-day ups and downs; special occasions; and to mark major milestones during your time apart, if your going to be away for a long duration. Include videos of you reading books and/or singing their favourite songs, including any lullabies you might be in the habit of crooning; and
• Plan regular interactions, including when you will call (see calendar ideas below).

On support networks, identify the existing support network of the children you love, and the caregiver/s left behind. This usually includes their teachers, friends and their friends’ families. Inform them of your period apart. This will be particularly important for periods of longer duration, i.e. more than a few days. Also, as an added benefit, consider joining the ConnectedApart community, which you might find helpful as a useful source of information, or interaction, with others in the same boat.

C: Ideas for the Head

1. Picture your vision for being apart, which you identified during the Anchor commitment, and make a plan for the Away stage. Choose some specific actions for the Away stage, which you can undertake while you’re apart. Pick from the ideas on ConnectedApart.com (in particular those listed under Commitment Three, Availability (and Fun)), sign up for more free ideas with ConnectedApart’s weekly idea-letter, and join the ConnectedApart community on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest;
2. Make an ‘Away Wall Chart’: include educational information on where you’re going, such as maps, pictures, websites for older children to research, a clock with your local time on it, pictures of you and the children you love and countdown calendars (see above and below);
3. Gift some books about separation – and how to cope, survive and thrive! Check out the following titles on Amazon: Don’t Want To Be Apart; and The Invisible String; and See You Later, Alligator;
4. For younger children, use dolls and puppets to talk about feelings. Hold a puppet show for your younger children, where you explain to the doll how you’re feeling and, in turn, the doll shares what its going through (or rather, how you think your little one might be feeling). Talk about things that the doll, your little one, and the family left behind can do to feel better, including while your away;
5. Make packing a fun – and cathartic – joint experience: get the children you love involved. Let them help you to pack for your time apart, including letting them add one special item of their choosing to your kit/luggage.

Related References

• Biringen, Z., Seng, S. and Altenhofen, S. (2005). Babies, toddlers, and coping with military deployments: Ensuring emotional security and remaining emotionally available. Colorado State University.
• Chandra, A., Lara-Cinisomo, S., Jaycox, L., et al. (2010). Children on the homefront: the experiences of children from military families. Pediatrics. 125 (1): 16 – 25
• Cohen, S. A., Gössling, S. (2015). A darker side of hypermobility. Environment and Planning A, 47.
• Espino, C. M., Sundstrom, S. M., Frick, H. L., Jacobs, M., Peters, M. (2002). International business travel: Impact on families and travellers. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 59: 309 – 322.
• Flake E. M., Davis B. E., Johnson P. L., Middleton L. S. (2010). The psychological effects of deployment on military children. Journal of Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics. 30 (4): 271 – 278.
• Gustafson, P. (2006). Work-related travel, gender and family obligations. Work, Employment and Society, 20 (3): 513 – 530.
• Meadows, S.O., Tanielian, T., Karney, B. R. (Eds.). (2016). The deployment life study: Longitudinal analysis of military families across the deployment cycle. Rand Corporation.
• Striker, J., Luippold, R., Nagy, L., et al. (1999). Risk factors for psychological stress among international business travellers. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 56: 245 – 52.

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Being apart is an emotional rollercoaster for the children you love, for the caregiver/s left behind and, often exacerbated by these facts, for you.

As such, you’ve got to find a way to keep yourself together. This is one of the most important things that you can do to make the experience of being apart a positive one for all.

Easier said than done, right? Sure, keeping your cool won’t be easy, and at times you’ll crack under pressure. You’re only human! This is why ConnectedApart and it’s unique APART model doesn’t encourage you to be an emotionless rock, or some constantly tranquil Zen master.

Rather, ConnectedApart recognizes that we all have emotions and encourages you to manage them in such a way as to foster healthy, loving connections between you and the children you love, and your broader family, while you’re apart.

But how? Aha! That’s the secret of the first of APART’s five commitments, ‘Anchor’. Read on to get four simple ideas and visit ConnectedApart’s dedicated page on Anchoring for more.

1. Get clear on your vision for being apart: great athletes envision themselves winning; successful private sector corporations adopt a clear picture of success. If its worth making a vision for the olympics, or for profit, its surely worth making one for your time apart from the children you love. So, close your eyes and picture success in each of the three stages of being apart: Leaving, Away and Returning. Once you’re clear on the vision for each stage, write it down, in clear and simple terms. Then put it somewhere safe; you’ll need it in Commitment Two, Prepare. Stay tuned for more ideas on Preparing, next week!
2. Identify one (or a few) practical, healthy, stress management techniques, which you can do with little preparation and, preferably, in your immediate location: for example, in your hotel room if you’re travelling on business; in your bunk-room or ‘container’ if you’re deployed on a long ‘tour of duty’ with a national defence force or a long-term ‘mission’ with an international organization (for example with the United Nations); or in your living room at home, if you live apart from the children you love.
3. Start a ten-minute stress management routine: using one or many of the ideas listed under item two above at ConnectedApart.com, before you leave the children you love. It will serve as an anchoring routine, when the stormy waters come. Involve the children you love and try to help them find a few techniques, which might work for them. At the very least, you will model one of the most important life skills of all, which is seldom the focus of dedicated courses in primary, secondary and/or tertiary institutions: stress management’.
4. Leverage your network, as well as the ConnectedApart community: talk to others who have been/are currently apart from the children they love. As this article from the American Psychological Association attests, a problem shared, is truly a problem halved.

Related References

• Biringen, Z., Seng, S. and Altenhofen, S. (2005). Babies, toddlers, and coping with military deployments: Ensuring emotional security and remaining emotionally available. Colorado State University
• Cohen, S. A., Gössling, S. (2015). A darker side of hypermobility. Environment and Planning A, 47.
• Flake E. M., Davis B. E., Johnson P. L., Middleton L. S. (2010). The psychological effects of deployment on military children. Journal of Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics. 30 (4): 271 – 278
• Gustafson, P. (2006). Work-related travel, gender and family obligations. Work, Employment and Society, 20 (3), 513 – 530.
• Striker, J., Luippold, R., Nagy, L., et al. (1999). Risk factors for psychological stress among international business travellers. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 56: 245 – 52.

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