How important is family time for children?

Family time is an important part for a family! It helps create strong bonds, love, connections and relationships among the members of the family. So when your family goes through some challenging times it will help in the long run! We all know that life is like a roller coaster and along the way we need to have formed true bonds with each family members to ensure that when tough times come along you turn to each other for comfort and support. This will fill kids with confidence and much, much more!

Here are a few things that building your family bond by spending quality time together will accomplish!

-To instill family values in your children

-To teach your children important life lessons

-To help and connect better with your children

-To show affection, appreciation, and encouragement

-To share the chores

-To help and connect better with your children

Maybe you have great intentions to spend time with your family but things seem to get in the way. Which is pretty easy to do sometimes. Which I totally understand with being a mom of 4 boys and working! It was really tough sometimes to make sure my husband and I set things aside for family time! There were times we made our fun family time in the car driving somewhere. We wouldn’t listen to the radio, we would talk or play a game to where ever we were going. I know that some of my kids’ memories are our car rides! Even as young adults now they talk about their childhood memories. 

Providing for your family with money and things is also important of course, but the one main thing kids want from you is your TIME! Your kids will remember the time you spent with them way more than a specific toy or video game, UNLESS it involves you playing with them AND the toy! Your kids are only little once and time flies by! Trust me when I say this as I currently have young adults and think how I miss the days when they were little humans running around the ho