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Making Quality Time With Your Child Count
from: Karlie BestlerIn today's busy world, work, household chores and social activities can take away time you can spend with your child. As you well know, it is imperative that you spend quality time with your child. Quality time helps strengthen the bond between parent and child. Children who spend quality time with their parents often do better in school and excel in extracurricular activities, hobbies or sports.
Quality time can be scheduled to some extent, but it often happens when you least expect it. Therefore, it is important that you spend as much time as possible with your child in a relaxed atmosphere. Do things together that you both enjoy.
With your busy schedule, prioritizing your time so you can find more quality time for your child is the key. Look at your household chore list. Decide which chores can wait or done imperfectly to make more family time. You might also consider leaving certain things until after your child has gone to bed to make the most of your time together.
Make some of those everyday routines together count. Sing songs on the way to daycare. Make the drive to and from school a time to discuss what's happening in your child's life.
If you have more than one child, each of them needs some individual attention. You may really have to juggle things to make this happen, but try to be flexible and creative to spend time with each of your children. If you skip those individual times with each child, you show them they are lower on the priority list than whatever chore you felt you needed to do.
Plan your quality times to take place regularly. Children thrive on stability and routines. You can take an extra long walk on a weekend morning or to shopping together and have lunch. It doesn't particularly matter where the time is spent. It is the time spent with the child that is important.
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