Quality Family Time

Quality Family Time

Are you looking for quality family time fun? Are you longing to get away and relax, enjoy your family time, and reminisce? We live in a busy world, constantly on the go. We want to challenge you as a family to slow down, enjoy quality family time, and bond closer together.

It is so hard to not try and keep up with the Jones’s sometimes. When is the last time you called your own parents or grandparents and interviewed them about what life was like when they were younger? The culture has changed so much. Sometimes we cannot imagine living without working so many hours, playing on the internet, or talking to others through a screen instead of face-to-face.

So, how do you encourage people to physically get together more, slow down time, and enjoy every moment? Warning: You may miss out on some news on the internet, if you choose to put yourself in solitude or enjoy a media free day and quality family time together. However, I am sure once your day or week of this bonding time is over, that news will still be there for you to come back to.

It is almost like we are afraid we are going to miss something, by not having our phones or social media attached to our hips. Kids do not know what to do today, if the power goes out, or the internet dies. Unplug to plug into your children. Learn about each other, ask fun questions, or use your creative brains and come up with something different to do. Spend quality family time together, while resting at the same time. I promise, you kids will grow up fine if you do this every now and then.

Go bold, and choose one day out of the week to go device free. Start a new practice as a family. Take a walk, read a book, or have you own reality tv show on Thursday nights by seeing how you can survive device free. You will soon see how it may help you bond closer to each other, during this quality family time together. Create a different learned habit and have real conversations with your children and friends, instead being glued to checking your notifications. You will thank yourself later in life.

Spend quality family time making a family time capsule. Maybe you recently went on a vacation together, or celebrated a holiday together. Get the “any occasion” DIY time capsule, seen here, and print off your favorite family photos on the special paper included with this gift. It is necessary for our brains to slow down and enjoy real fellowship together as a family. So, decorate the outside of your family, vacation, new years, or whatever else time capsule you want to make as a family.

Invest your time in telling stories as you gather some of your most important, sentimental mementos, memorabilia, or souvenirs and put them in your time capsule. Then, choose a “do not open until” date to open it again in the future. Have each family member write a “message to the future” letter to themselves about what they think their future will look like. What advice do you have for your future self? Where do you think you will go to college, or do for a job 20 or 30 years from now? Then, seal your time capsule and wait for your special day to open it again and reminisce about what life was like the year you filled the time capsule. It is a priceless gift to create, while bonding and enjoying quality family time.

What would you save in your family time capsule? Comment below.

Making Milestone Moments Count,

– – Marcie