The Importance of Family Bonding Time

Do you want your kids to behave and show better social skills? Want your wife not to blow your head off or your husband to be more vocally affectionate? You should try family bonding time.

What is Family Bonding Time?

Family bonding time is meaningful time spent together with your family. This is time specifically for family plans. For interacting with each other over a group of activities or a fun project.

Benefits of Spending Time Together

Family members learn how to listen and work together. 

Your children will learn how to behave in the society by watching how parents interact with each other and with the world.

Family bonding times are a great way to input expected behaviours inside the family circle. When you model expected behaviours, this is a great way for parents to learn how to communicate to each other as well.

If you give out some personal time at least one day in the week for family time, your family members gain self-worth. As for children that have guardians that spend time with them, begin to give value to their family time. Children that do not have family values are more likely to be influenced with friends that don’t have their best interests at heart.

Communications between family members improve.

People start admitting frustration when it comes to communication. The children might not be open or trustworthy, they don’t listen, aren’t open, untrustworthy or lack any understanding.

Family bonding can help get rid of some of this frustration. The parents can use this time to relate their childhood to their adolescent now. That’s how they will interact with their children well. This is because parents have gone through most of the things they might be going through.

As important as it is to teach them wisdom, it is just as important to be an active listener as well. When everyone in the family is together, sometimes important to convey your attention towards your family and ask “So what’s happening with you?”

Children improve relationships and bond with family

When you make a habit of showing interest in the wellbeing of your spouse and children, this will make them more likely to consult family members first when there are personal problems happening.

Actively strengthening family bonds reinforces mutual respect. 

Children will come to realise they can get more done by behaving instead of acing out. Adults will respect them when a child is willingly doing their best for them. Children will stop talking back as their interpretation of their family division improves.

There are some partners that don’t understand why their spouses have a lot to say to them. Women are usually so verbal and if their husbands often skip opportunities for their wives to open up, it starts building up. Too much aggressive tension can lead to a verbal load in all genders.

Men have the same problem too and often take out their need to vent out through doing physical tasks. Men are usually more aggressive verbally and avoid everything until they believe they have fixed whatever is bothering them.

Entitling time together will help eliminate these bad habits of dealing with stress.  This doesn’t mean that your spouse should only talk during family time. It’s just the opportunity to discuss matters by both spouses will help release any emotional tensions that lead to misbehaving. What you should do is discuss what is going on in each member’s life. This is a good way to encourage releasing whatever is going on.

Members learn to value one another and are less likely to hurt each other. 

Families that encourage bonding time, about 3 times a week, their children often have easy time away from home. Basically children that do not have to compete with a phone, laptop, computer, TV or any other activity for parental attention have an easier time directing themselves when their parents are not around. Children that know they have a enough attention from their parents do not try to get it by disrupting them.

Some ways to Share Family time Together

• Go to the park together for a picnic and play games.
• Go to the museum and let everyone pick out things they would like to see.
• Plan a meal with a new recipe and discuss similarities and differences.
• Work on a project together that is easy for everyone to contribute. This can encourage children to use their talents to make the project special.

Ways to Include Family Bonding Time Every day

• At meal times encourage everyone to discuss what they plan to do, what problems they may be having or whatever is on their minds.
• At home parents can ask children to help them do the chores and make a game of it so it’s more fun.
• While driving, take this time to communicate and play games too.