Much has been said about the importance of spending quality time with your child. However, while there’s absolutely no denying that quality time is crucial, it should not be used as an excuse to not spend more time with your child.
Here are some easy ways that you can add precious minutes and hours to the time you spend with your child during the day.
Listen. Be Interested: Be interested in what happened during their day, even if it means listening to all the details about your daughter’s doll tea party or your son’s action figure wrestle mania. Ask a few questions to show genuine interest.
Have At Least One Meal Together As A Family: Resist the temptation to go eat in front of the television and instead, make it a point to always eat at least one meal together as a family at the dining table. This is a great time for everybody to share their highlights and low lights from the day.
Work On Projects Together: Whether it is a class project that your child needs to do or some house work that you are doing, working together opens up lots of opportunities to share thoughts and feelings and to create special memories together.
Enjoy Some One-On-One Time Together Regularly: While family time is great, children relish one-on-one time that they get to spend with either mom or dad all by themselves. Being the center of their parents’ universe during that time can make any child feel special and that is a feeling that nothing or no one can take away from them.
For children, time spent with their parents is special and they look forward to it, whether it be something special or just chilling out. It is during these times spent together that slowly but surely, the relationship between a parent and child begins to grow, develop and strengthen into an everlasting bond.
