Quality Time with Children

So much is said about having quality time not quantity time with children. Unfortunately, to have quality time we need a fair bit of time (i.e. quantity time). I've always found that the quality time I had with my children wasn't planned and happened when there was actually a good amount of time spent with them. This is not to say that you shouldn't plan some time but it does not always come out as you had planned.

Think of the many outings that you have experienced as a parent that turned into minor or major disasters. When I first started my blog I did talk about Five Givens of Parenting - one of them being that things do not always go according to plan. Well sometimes you can't plan quality time but you can certainly try to make time for your children and some of it will turn out to be quality time.

The other thing that is important is to have fun. Enjoy your children, laugh and play with them on their terms not yours.