Time with your children

Quality time with my son is important to me. Mainly because i dont get it enough i feel. I have to work and its fustrating not to be able to stay home with him. So i signed up for a playgroup so i can take him to things. I take him to the park. I take him to the watermelon patch. I try to take him outside if the weather is nice. I find things to do with him when inside.

Hi, I am a strong believer of "work-life Balance" theory.I feel U'll be burning out soon, if U donot follow it conciously.For me, family means a Quality Time with my child & wife.Fun,Laugh,Play etc are important enough to keep U active and Motivated in Ur work,at workplace.To me,spending TIME with my child(weekends, in particular) gives me the Extra- ENERGY back to me for coming week. +lahiri,Kolkata,India.

to me there is nothing more important which is why i am a stay at home mom. sure we need more money and we struggle but being here for him makes such a huge difference in both our lives. when he is older i will return to work out of necessity not because i love to work. i am pulled in all directions most days since i do work at home but i am here for him and we have summers together to do things together and weekends as well.

I agree with you. Time spent with children is worth it, both for the children and you and your spouse. I am speaking as one who missed about 7 years of meaningful companionship with my children and spouse because of work in a distant province. I still regret those missed years of seeing, wondering about and enjoying the stages of growth of my children. There were times when, hearing the voices of other children playing, I felt my heart was being sliced by a knife. I still feel strongly the sense of loss, the sense of regret.

well my child is only three weeks old....so i enjoy spending every minute of every day with him because its so new to me being a first time mom. Not only that but i don't want to miss any new things he may end up doing. But i do believe that spending quality time with a child is very necessary to their upbringing.

Well I certainly hope that every parent enjoys spending time with their children, although I know that this is not the case. I love spending time with my kids, even though they know just which buttons to push to make me angry or what to say to annoy me. Ha ha. Seriously, though, with me it's quantity with not so much imphasis on quality. I'm with my kids all day every day. My 6 year old goes to school and I'm here when she gets home. I stay home with my son all day. We play and watch tv and talk. Sometimes he sits in his bouncy seat while I pick up or excercise. I know there is a difference in my daughter because there was a short period of time that I wasn't around for her. Before we spent so much time together she never minded going to a relative's house (actually she would often ask to go somewhere) to spend the night. Now she gets invitations to other people's houses and won't go. She tells them she would rather stay home with me and her baby brother. I think it's sweet. Like the more time we spend together the more she wants to see me. I can only hope that she'll always want to be around me and not hiding me like other teens do. Even though I doubt it will happen, I can wish we will always be best friends.

I do both. Since I guide him personally on his homework and other studies, these times are compulsory for me…I have to be with him even if I don’t want to (tired or sick or whatever). At other times, during holidays and such, I spend as much free time I can with him. These are spent in watching movies, going shopping, eating out, playing games, reading stories, colouring and such. I enjoy both the times I spend with him, though I don’t know really how he will appreciate that when he becomes an adult.

Yes, i spend time with my daughter.. i'm single mom at the same time i'm working and i have only 2 days vacant.. sometimes if i will go to my friends, i will bring my daughter so that she will have bonding with my friends too, also if i have extra money, we will go to mall then i will bring her to children's area which she can play.. sometimes, we spend time to cook together, cleaning the house, go to shower together and we really had fun.. it's important to spend time with your children specially when they still young so that they will become closer to you and most of adult children are more open to they parents who has more time with them..

Time length isn't as important as quality. I don't do anything fancy. We can't afford to. We do family things (park, movie and popcorn, board games) and we do one on one things (a story with the 8 yr old after the little ones are in bed, color a picture, tell a "funny"- a story so silly that it makes them giggle, a tickle hug) Little things like a touch on the head just to say I'm here is even something they will feel for years to come.

I make sure I spend time with the kids as much as I possibly can. I have 2 aged 12 and 18. As with many of us there is sometimes no time left in the day and sometimes these days turn into weeks. I have noticed when it is like this they become slightly removed and don't tell me everything they do like they used to. When I notice this I sort things out drop a few things and reconnect with them. We love to go on walks together and do art projects and cook together, sometimes even doing the chores together keeps us grounded and problems at bay :)x