How to share value time with your children
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To share value time with your children should be treated as the necessity that it is and not as a luxury that parents of today consider it as. Most parents share quality time with their kids when the kids are toddlers or even younger but this time gets drastically eaten into by other activities that assume higher importance as the children get older. Where once you would have at least one or two meals together in one day, later it would surprise you to notice that you rarely shared more than five a week. Quality time rarely means spending hundreds of dollars on toys to play with or spend in a fancy restaurant. You can spend both quality time and free of expense by following these tips.
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A few suggestions
- Do gardening with your children. It is an activity that is a Godsend to help you bond and communicate. Preparing a vegetable patch or putting in early mums can really bring you closer to your kids.
- With the really young kids, you can simply play. Play with trucks or building blocks or whatever takes your child’s fancy, just follow their lead.
- A very good way to spend time with your children is to solve a jigsaw puzzle. Since these puzzles come in a variety of difficult stages you can cover many ages with them. A really large 300+ piece jigsaw puzzle can take days or even weeks to solve, so the best way would be to set it up on a table in the basement and work on it for a few minutes every day with your children.
- Allow children to help you cook. Let them pick out a recipe from the internet or a book (a beautifully illustrated one would be lovely) and work as a team to produce fun meals that everyone will enjoy eating.
- Also allow them to help you clear up the mess later so that they know the correct way to end things.
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Do’s
- Do look for creativity and fun in all activities and don’t consider anything too below your age and dignity to involve yourself in.
- Approach everything with a sense of adventure and enjoy it as such.
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Don’ts
- Don’t lose your temper and patience with children during these times. These are magic hours, let their memory always be sweet.