What are the benefits of spending time with family?
There are endless benefits to spending time with family and growing a family bond with your children.
Security– Creating a bond with your kids is important to make them feel secure and safe in their family.
Importance– Spending focused time with your children makes them feel important and wanted.
Confidence– Strong family bonds can build confidence and self esteem in your kids naturally because they feel secure and important in their family.
Happiness– A bonded family makes for happy kids. Your kids are happy spending time with you. Focused time that makes them feel wanted and important.
Their happiness will carry over making them positive in other areas of their life. This study from University of Illinois found that children with a strong bond with their parents will be more positive and responsive with their peers and adults in the future.
Through family bonding you grow stronger as a family unit as you spend time together.
Parents gain many of the benefits kids do from family bonding feeling more attached to their children and watching them grow up happy in the family you’ve created for them!
How do you promote family bonding?
Promote family bonding in your home, on vacation, and while your out and about with the tips below.
Create opportunities of time spent together. Don’t wait for family bonding opportunities to come to you, create them. Plan family activities and events.
Get Unplugged– Screen free time promotes family bonding. When your kids are bored they can think up all kinds of games and activities to do together. They will want you to get in on the fun too!
Turn activities into traditions, so you have planned times to bond during holidays and special events. Family traditions create extra special bonding memories that your kids will treasure forever.
Family bonding time with your kids doesn’t have to be hard! It can be as simple as giving them a kiss goodnight to spending a day at their favorite theme park.
Sometimes it’s fun though to mix things up a bit and create fun bonding experiences that your kids will remember forever.
Here is a handy list of easy ways to bond with your kids and don’t forget to grab your FREE printable Family Bonding Ideas List at the bottom.
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Kids feel so much more safe, secure, and happy when they have a strong bond with their parents.
A lot of the things on this list are quick and easy to do. Picking even one bonding activity to do each day, week, or month goes a long way in developing a stronger bond with your kids and family.
Samantha Ramos has her B.A. in Special Education. She is a stay athome mom and homeschoolerto 3 children in Southern California. Her biggest passion is positive parenting and helping moms find simple solutions to every day mom problems!
I totally agree when you said that it would be a good idea to bring the kids to a theme park aside from a simple family bonding time. I will definitely bring my kids there since they are teens already. It will give me a chance to connect with them since I love thrilling rides as well. They got my genes of loving adventure which is why they always go out with their friends compared to us now.
Thank you so much for this, it is well written with helpful infomration to me as a young parent. Will definately use these points to bond with my kids.
Thank you for this post! There are so many great ideas! My daughter is three and I am about to start working full time, so I’m worried about not spending enough time with her. There are some really great activities here that can make what time I do spend with her even more special. I am definitely saving this!! :)
Thank you so much Jessica, I’m so happy it could help! I had to work full time while I was pregnant with my second baby. It was so hard leaving my son after being a stay at home mom so long. Thankfully, it all turned out okay and was probably harder on me than him. It also made our activities together that much more special. Good luck with your new job! :)
Millie Hue
I totally agree when you said that it would be a good idea to bring the kids to a theme park aside from a simple family bonding time. I will definitely bring my kids there since they are teens already. It will give me a chance to connect with them since I love thrilling rides as well. They got my genes of loving adventure which is why they always go out with their friends compared to us now.
Paddy
Thank you so much for this, it is well written with helpful infomration to me as a young parent. Will definately use these points to bond with my kids.
Sammy
Hi Paddy! Thank you! It makes me happy to know that this was a help to you. I hope are able to get some fun bonding time in with your kids. :)
Nicole
Love these ideas! Thank you!
Mother of 3
Such a wonderful List! I love these ideas… and do most of them too.
Jessica K.
Thank you for this post! There are so many great ideas! My daughter is three and I am about to start working full time, so I’m worried about not spending enough time with her. There are some really great activities here that can make what time I do spend with her even more special. I am definitely saving this!! :)
Samantha
Thank you so much Jessica, I’m so happy it could help! I had to work full time while I was pregnant with my second baby. It was so hard leaving my son after being a stay at home mom so long. Thankfully, it all turned out okay and was probably harder on me than him. It also made our activities together that much more special. Good luck with your new job! :)