Fridays are for Families

Tonight's the night for your family. I wanted to encourage those of you that aren't practicing family time to consider the impact it can have on your children.

The time that you spend giving your kids attention with no TV, phone calls, and other distractions is time that will impact their lives and yours in ways that are greater than you will ever know.

This is your opportunity to keep open the doors of communication. You can discuss their highs and lows from the week. The listening will help you understand ways to encourage their emotional growth. There are things they may feel upset about from school, neighborhood issues, friends or family problems that they honestly don't know how to handle. Mom/Dad this your your chance to comfort and lead them into better management of their thoughts an emotions.

Another way to spend more time together is family meal times nightly. Meal time should not include TV, radio,or phones. Allow your full attention to be on one another. This will establish the child/parent bond even more. You maybe thinking that you are simply too busy but I promise you it will actually save you time. When you have a functioning, trusting, relationship with your kiddos you will see fewer emotional outbursts, tantrums, and general misbehavior. Making time up front with your kids will save you time later. And as you know they are worth every minute!

Start planning your night now if you havent! Those kiddos are going to be so blessed to see you paying attention to them and having some fun this evening.  Get creative, get silly and make those kids laugh!

Here is one idea that was given by Family Time.  Have each child take a turn making a dash to a pile of mom or dads clothes (pants, jacket and shoes)  and then they need to make a 'run' through the house and back, avoiding major stairs. This will be really silly to see. Take pictures and  dont hold back those giggles!