As the saying goes, “Family is where life begins and love never ends“. The saying feels so much closer to heart these days than at any other time. With the pandemic knocking on our doorsteps and parents and children stuck at home. It’s the best time to talk about the benefits of spending time with your family.
1. Family Bonding
Bonding between family members will last forever. You can interact with each other, play games, cook dinner, or work out together. This will teach your children to interact with outsiders and family members. For example, playing cricket or catch ball with your kids will create everlasting memories. As a result of that, the connections in the family will be stronger. Furthermore, You’ll be assured that your family will be there for you no matter what. So let’s put the phone down for a bit and step away from the Laptop for an hour and enjoy life with your kids.
2. Academic Development
We try a lot of things when it comes to our child’s education. Extra tuition, forced homework time, and endless pushing that feels so futile sometimes. But little do we know that playing a bit with your kids can do loads more than two hours of tuition. Yes, it’s possible that your child will show higher academic development with increased family time. A game of scrabble, building a fort together, or any simple mathematical game can improve their thinking ability.
3. Emotional Stability
The emotional well-being of the children and the whole family will increase with quality family time. The children will learn to be team players and tantrum-throwing behavioral problems will be reduced. We all know we need attention and young children need attention more than anyone so if you spend time with them, play with them, cook with them or exercise with them they will feel wanted. This will decrease the violent behavior of children.
4. Build up Self-confidence
The whole family has to act as a team. Parents should create a non-judgmental environment for their children, in the home. You can encourage children to draw pictures and decorate the house. After they have drawn the pictures try to pick a good one and frame and hang it. This will boost their self-confidence. Furthermore, your actions will make them feel recognized within the family.
5. Problem-solving skills
At home, children should be given activities to do on their own. You can ask them to build a cushion fort or to cook a dish for dinner. Don’t go and criticize their work. Let them work on it on their own and only give advice when they ask for it. This will also develop their application skills.
6. Getting to know each other
All of us are busy these days. Children have school work and parents have office work. Because of this, we can become strangers in our own homes. The importance of family life is more significant to catch up with each other. You have to have one meal together. Dinner would be a perfect opportunity. Get everyone together, talk about your day, and ask children about their day. Furthermore, you can support each other and find solutions to the problems together. This will increase family connections.
7. Stress
Are we stressed? yeah, most probably all of us are stressed. The heavy work load at school and work place can increase stress levels. However, with quality family time, your stress level can be reduced. Furthermore, it has been shown by the studies that being with your family and doing activities together can lower the production of stress hormones. Most importantly, good family time will help your body to produce stress-releasing hormones.
8. Inter-personal skills
A good family environment can build good interpersonal skills in children. Your child who plays with his siblings, talk with his parents about his day will be a good communicator. Also, by talking with children you will be able to catch up with them. you will get to know your children better with good communication. For instance, a child who grows up in a family with good communication will be a person with healthy social connections.
9. Create Memories
Family time together will create everlasting memories. If you plant a seed with your children that will create a good memory in them. They will remember the good times for the rest of their lives. Always try to create good memories because it will add value to their lives. Sibling arguments, friendly board games will create lovely memories and these memories will keep your family alive. These memories will also strengthen family bonding. As the saying goes, “memories made together, last a lifetime.
10. Good Human beings
Children always learn from adults. Firstly, good family time will show them the path to be wonderful parents in the future. Secondly, seeing you interact well with your family will make the child a better person in the future. You can encourage good behavior and they will grow up to be lovely adults. You can arrange some charity work to be done by the whole family. The most important point is that this will give the children a chance to be kind to one another. You can encourage them to do more in the future by praising their work.
In conclusion, we can say that good family time can make the best human beings, with the best memories in mind and best intentions at the heart.
