Quality Time

This means giving our kids our undivided attention. Get down on the floor. Play. Do what THEY love to do. As they get older, don’t stop – jump into their interests and activities. “Many adults, looking back on childhood, don’t remember much of what their parents said, but they do remember what they did. ‘I remember that my father never missed my high school games (concerts/debates/recitals,etc.) I knew he was interested in what I was doing.’ For those adults Quality Time was their language. If this is your child’s language and you learn to speak it, chances are he/she will invite you to spend quality time even in adolescence!

“And these words which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them dillignetly  to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.”  Deuteronomy 6: 6,7

Use the times together with your kids to talk about the things of God in a natural way. Because you spend lots of time together, it will come up naturally as you engage in conversation and activities. Your kids won’t feel “cornered” or like you planned to have a God talk.

Spend some easy, comfortable, regular time sitting together in your house, walking along the way, and being there at bedtime and breakfast. If you make yourself available to your kids, you might be surprised at what you learn about them!

Family Night by the Book is all about spending easy, fun, quality time together. And you learn some godly principles along the way! Make the investment in your family today.

Blessings,

Beth and Dr. Ron