Quality Family Time: What’s so great about it and how do we do it?

The benefits spending quality time with your family.

It seems like it’s an unwritten rule that you should do your best to spend quality time with your family. But in between work, managing a household, projects, sports, appointments, cooking, cleaning, and everything else that life brings your way, sometimes it’s hard to find the time that you truly want or need to spend with your kids and significant other. All these tasks and “to do’s” pile up, and it becomes easy to forget to make time for each other that doesn’t involve one of the tasks above.

So what is so important about family time? Why do we need to be sure to make time for this? And above all, why should it be prioritized?

Well… outside of the fact that spending quality time with each other usually creates a happier household, I thought we could dig into this a little further.

Benefits of Quality Family Time

10 Benefits of Quality Family Time

When you have a day to relax together, or have fun together as a family, do you tend to feel relaxed or refreshed (obviously as long as the day goes well)?!?! Do you ever wonder why?

According to many proven studies, family time promotes the following benefits:

Encourages adaptability to overcome life situations
Reduces stress and axiety
Enhances conflict resolution capabililties
Helps children to interpret parenting skills
Improves mental health
Lessens behavioral problems
Promotes personal growth and self-confidence
Boosts academic performance
Contributes to positive physical health habits
Lengthens life expectancy

Get further explanations on how these benefits are related to family time: click here.

the benefits of spending time together as a family
20 ideas for family time

Family time doesn’t have to cost money, or take a lot of effort. The important aspect of family time is that you are together, and that each of you are giving your undivided attention to each other. It can be something large like taking a family trip together, all the way down to going out for breakfast together, or playing games.

Family time can look different for every household, so you can choose what works for you!

Continue below for some ideas for quality family time together, that won’t break the bank!

20 Family Time Ideas That Won’t Break the Bank:

Have a game day
Go to the park
Go to a community splash pad
Go for a hike, or a nature walk
Ride bikes together
Have a craft day
Bake cupcakes/cakes/cookies together
Play an outdoor sport
Go to the library
Create a crafty story book together
Go to the beach
Build a blanket fort and watch a movie
Have a movie night
Have a dance party
Go bird/animal watching (my kids love birds)
Read a book or book series together
Have a picnic
Go camping
Have a backyard bonfire
Create a scavenger hunt

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Conclusion

In this busy, hectic world, the most important thing is to stop and find time to spend together as a family. Your kids need you, they need the undivided attention, love and affection that is their parents. You are such a large part of your child’s world, and they put all their trust and learning into you and your home. Help them learn to be creative, loving, caring, passionate, motivated, and the strong individual that I know you want them to be.

It’s time to get out of your family slump, round everyone up, and start building the family bonds and relationships that every child (and adult) needs in their lives.

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