PARENTING & FAMILY TIME

[snowyangel]

Do We Value Our Family Time?

Family time is something we all say we value, but few of us actually experience.


Surveys suggest that most families rate time together as their number one priority. Those same surveys show that fathers spend only a few minutes a day with their children. In his book If I Were Starting My Family Again, John Drescher wrote about a study of 300 seventh and eighth-grade boys who kept detailed records of how much time their fathers spent with them over a two-week period. Most saw their father only at the dinner table. A number didn't see their fathers for days at a time. The average time father and son were alone together was seven and one-half minutes a week.

There are several excuses that we use to justify our lack of time together as families:

We excuse ourselves by saying, "We don't spend much time together, but our time is quality time." This makes me wonder what one minute of “quality timeâ€

[Quiet Hood]

I put my family top of my list. Their happiness are important to me.

[true_noir_chloe]

Thanks for that good piece of advice, snowyangel.^_^

[Kokhiri Sojourn]

I wholeheartedly agree.