Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Parenting Tip: Quality Time


courtesy of Emily Wicker, Staff Counselor

Spending quality time with your child is vital to helping build a stronger relationship with him/her.  Spending at least 30 minutes per week doing an activity together can improve your relationship significantly.  There are limitless possibilities of activities you can do together including:  watch a movie, bake cookies, go on a walk, go to the park, make crafts, or volunteer somewhere together.  When you spend quality time with your child, you should be free of all distractions.  Yes, that means cell phones too!  You may be thinking “I am with my child all the time so that’s quality time,” but I challenge you to purposely set aside 30 minutes of each week to do a special activity together.

Suggested Activity:
·         Make a sign with your child of your favorite Bible verse and hang it on a doorframe in your house.


Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.  Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.  These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children.  Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.  Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.  Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9

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