06. Making Quality Time for your Children

The Importance of Spending Quality Time with Your Children

The modern set up of the family is truly evolving and ever changing. Nowadays, it is normal that the dad and the mom are both working to help the family make both ends meet.

Thus, in the modern-day situation, the welfare of the child is aggrieved. It is very crucial that a child has his parents to turn to during the critical days of his life, when he experiences new things and realizes new insights.

A child’s formative years are also significant to molding the overall personality of the child as he gears toward adult life. Thus, a child who grew up as a responsible individual will tend to become a good citizen when he becomes an adult.

As parents, you should take note that your responsibility to your child does not end in providing him with his basic needs like food and shelter. It is hard to earn a living nowadays, but that is no excuse for not taking the time to attend to your child's emotional needs.

Spending quality time with children is imperative because that is what creates the finest moments in a child's memory. With the modern family set up, it is hard to maintain a harmonious parent-child relationship, but as a parent, you could always try and realize that it is not actually difficult doing so.

Helpful tips

There are numerous ways you could spend some quality time with your child.

Here are some simple activities and tips that will give you some ideas when you aim to spend quality time with your kids.

·       Take a little joyride. Perhaps, you could spend one weekend day driving around. You do not need to get to a destination when you do so. Just taking your kids for a ride, perhaps around the neighborhood, sets a good opportunity for you to laugh along with each other, play jokes, talk or just enjoy sights.

·       Play a simple game when you get together. Perhaps, you could play a simple board game or a computer game. By doing so, you are setting the impression to your child that you are game and willing to have fun with him.

·       Give individual attention to each child. If you have around three or more children, it is important to set quality time with all of them at the same time. But also be sure to plan or set quality time with each of these kids individually. To do so, you could just tag along a child when you go to the grocery, or simply help one in doing his school homework. Be careful not to get the other kids jealous, though.

·       Find a common interest with your child. Your interests may, of course, not be similar and jiving, but for once, be simple and stoop down to the level of the child. Perhaps interest in a cartoon series or a simple action figure toy may put you at the same spot and talk about a lot of things.

·       Act like a child for once. By doing so, you could set an example that you are willing to compromise and adjust to your child's needs. Doing so would also let your child know that you are fun to be with and that you could also be just a friend or a playmate to him in addition to being a dad or a mom.

Creating such simple activities make for quality time between you and your kids. You could also set a good quality time by taking meals, like dinner, together. Eating together would set a perfect opportunity to talk about personal things.

Moreover, you should always remember that to spend quality time with your kids and make it work, you should be genuinely interested in doing so. Children will always sense if what you are doing is against your will. When they do that, the quality time is spoiled and you would find it hard to set a fun get-together again.