Showing posts with label bonding time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bonding time. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Building Better Family Relationships


Family is the basic unit of the society, and it is very important that parents and children have harmonious relationship in order to become better citizens of a nation. In these times when men and women to work for living, young children are often left at home with a nanny or a nursery, while older spend all day at school. Most times, parents have enough time to spare to put their children only at night. Sometimes not even have time to talk about their individual lives let alone spend a day of fun together.

Small talk, small gestures of comfort, little things we do every day if they are for an hour or enough for a few minutes, especially when done with sincerity and commitment to strengthening and developing links with their children. There are so many good things to give a child a hug. According to research, touch therapy is very effective in building relationships with families, especially in building ties between parents and children. This is a good way to express your love and concern for children. In addition to hugs, kisses and pats on the small shoulders are also important in building relationships.

Despite the busy schedule, make an effort to be present when time is short. The weekend with the family once a month can do wonders in strengthening family ties closer.


Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Pig Out with Typhoon Juan

Home made Spaghetti with buttered roll and Home-made Coffee Jelly
Frequent brownouts for the past few days left us with nothing to do. The kids are all here and hubby is at home too; I can't do my stuff because there was no electric power; what is there left to do but to pig out! Surrounded by bunch of growing kids, they all seem to be hungry all the time. Since I have my free time to cook for them, I came up with home-made spaghetti and hubby did the butter rolls. Our meal time served as bonding time for me and my family. We are trying to skip on drinking soda; so I made a home-made coffee jelly (recipe from my mother-in-law). Recipes are available at www.noobfoodie.com