My DS not only chatted to me all around the supermarket yesterday, he let me chat to another mum for 15 minute and when we got home he put some of the shopping away for me (because the kitchen was, in his words, a "terrible mess").

Treat a child as a human and they respond! DS treats me as a human - a wonderful, near-infallable human, but still a human. And he wants to help me, because I help him.

DS is very affectionate and loves to show love. He also loves to make up games and share them with me. He's great at compliments too.