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Ways to Spend More Time with Your Children

January 9th, 2008 by Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur Print This Article Print This Article ·

I just finished reading "Raising Children on Purpose" by Wesley Fleming. It was a very good book with many practical parenting sections. One of the topics Fleming takes on is spending more time with our children. He offers some good ideas for making time to spend with your kids:

 

1) If you can't be with your family for dinner, try being there for breakfast and the drive to school.

 

2) Shut off the TV and spend the time with your children. Find something fun that you can do together.

 

3) Develop a joint hobby – it can revolve around sports or collecting something or playing games, as long as it is something you both enjoy and can do together.

 

4) Take a vacation every year. It can be low frills and low cost but the memories it creates are priceless.

 

5) Make a "date" with each of your children. Spend some time one-on-one with each of them.

 

To find out more about "Raising Children on Purpose" visit: Raising Children on Purpose: Helping Your Children Find Their God-given calling

 

Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur

http://spiritualwomanthoughts.blogspot.com

http://momentofbeauty.blogspot.com 

 



  • Guest

    God loves you .

    Just the lady to talk to – or, rather get some tips from –

    Ma’am, please look over at CE-Wide topic: ‘Raising a Mass-Loving Youth’ and you’ll see something new we’re trying to accomplish from out of our fora Catholics.

    You specialize in maximizing marriage and family time as something of an ‘efficiency theologian’. Interesting capacity. You may have a few points to give us from your – well – interesting capacity. In that we are hoping to help families out with the results of our project, we’re going to beg all the help we can get.

    You won’t disappoint if you just don’t have the time – or would rather look at our later draft results for editing from you perspective.

    Remember, I love you, too .

    Toward our holy and prosperous New Year in Christ,

    Pristinus Sapienter

    (wljewell @newcesite.com or … yahoo.com)