Quality Time with our Children

Spending quality time with our children helps build positive relationships, improves self-esteem, and is essential to optimal development.

Our lives can get so busy that quality time with our children can fall off the radar but it is important to find a few minutes here and there.

Ways to spend quality time with your children:

1. Plan regular scheduled dates.  Planning and scheduling quality time means our kids look forward to quality time.
2. Take pictures together. Photos create memories that stretch quality time beyond the time you physically spent together.
3. Cook together.  Your child gets to spend time with you and learn some helpful life skills as well!
4. Eat dinner together as a family a few times a week.
5. Exercise together.  It’s good for both of you.
6. Play together.  Build an indoor cubby house with an old sheet, build a fort out of boxes, play doctor, or have a family games night.
7. Build quality time into your morning and bedtime routines. Set aside time to really talk together, read together, relax together – whatever suits your family.
8. Remember, it is quality not quantity – just 5-7 minutes a day of one on one time is enough.

Resource: A book about the different ways people express love.

The 5 Love Languages- by Gary Chapman