Need to improve on spending family time together? Struggling with good, authentic, quality time with your kids?
I hear ya. I see ya. Parenting is not for the faint of heart.
What if I told you that you could have better quality time with your kids? Would you want to improve your short years you have with your kids? You can start making improvements immediately. A way I always start improving my quality time with my kids is with prayer. If you struggle to pray, download my free structure of prayer guide today to help you get started. Just remember quality time
Dinner Time
In the spring of 2020, I got married and instantly became stepmom to two AND teach from home teacher while managing schoolwork for students and my personal kids. I can remember being stuck at home and doing lots of zooms and homework on the computer with my kids each day. I was craving human interaction and connections.
Everything was so computer-based and not very personal. It was exhausting.
I decided to make it a priority to have purposeful dinner talk. I created dinner conversation jars so we would have topics to talk about when our teen and preteen didn’t want to talk. I just printed out topics, put them in a jar and, voila, it’s the perfect way to connect!
Other ways my husband and I have made a point for quality time with our 4 kids is doing things that they are interested in. Do we love shuttling them to birthday parties, or practices, or out of town tournaments? No. No, we don’t. Do the kids love it? Yes, even though they don’t always show their appreciation, they love it. And we love to see our kids have joy in these things.
During those car rides we talk about their day, who they played with, what they have planned for the week and everything in between. We also make it a point to ask about their experiences at dinner.
Be Purposeful in Family Time
In all of the things that you do together, be purposeful. Instead of looking at car rides or dinner prep as inconvenient or less than desirable, use those times as purposeful quality time.
Let the toddler help stir dinner. Let the teenager set the table. Let your kids think it’s normal to do dinner prep as a family. And then eat together, no phones, and then clean up together (I’m sure you’d love the help in the kitchen 😜). Just unplug and connect.
3 Simple Ways to Improve Spending Family Time Together:
- Pray for opportunities for quality time and for you to see the opportunities
- Turn mundane tasks into purposeful time together
- Plan simple things to get everyone talking (print out conversation starters, create a cellphone jail, just let everyone take turns asking and answering silly questions)
Related Links:
Praying for Your Marriage: Pray Together, Stay Together
Prayer Schedule: 7 Ways to Implement Yours
May heavenly things constantly interrupt earthly things ❤️
