Here’s How I Spend Super Fun Quality Time with My Kid!
# No.2 is my kid’s favorite and I love no.10 and 11.
Does spending quality time with kids feel boring? Well, it's exhausting most of the time. But why not do something more engaging, fun, and unique?
Being a working mom of a 7-year-old, now I am going to suggest to you some unique ideas which will be fantastic for your kids’ mental and physical growth. Also, your kids are going to wait for those times a lot like mine.
Whether you are a working or stay-at-home parent, spending these types of quality time is a must for your kids.
1. Write a Family Book.
You and your kids can write a family book together. Add bios, funny character traits, expectations, dreams, and achievements of your family members. You can write comic book type of stories as well and make illustrations. Add rhymes and poetries too.
Write it on your computer or in a jumbo-size scrapbook. Divide chapters among you and your kids. Don’t forget to print the hard copy.
Benefits:
Playfully, your kids are going to improve their writing skills. They will achieve clarity of thought and tremendous confidence in any kind of writing competition.
2. Schedule Stupid Time.
Keep some time every day to be stupid. Make sure your kids can say anything stupid happened in their life during this time. Let them say things about their school, teachers, and friends. Allow them to make fake stories.
Don’t forget to share your stories too, when you’ve felt really stupid. Listen carefully and guide the conversation freely. Laugh a lot and kiss them.
Benefits:
Your kid is going to learn to handle their emotions in a balanced way. You will easily understand whether they are comfortable and secure in their environment. Your bond is going to be stronger with your kids.
They will have the courage and confidence to tell you their secrets when they reach their teenage.
3. Make Crafty Gifts for Each Other.
Not only for Birthdays but celebrate all minor achievements and occasions and make crafty gifts together. Search Google for craft ideas.
Benefits:
It will reduce stress levels. Kids will understand the value of ordinary things.
4. Explore Unknown Roads.
You can walk or ride a bike with your kids to explore unknown roads. Make it more of an adventure.
Benefits:
Improves fitness and releases happy hormones. Kids will be more familiar with their surroundings. They will have wonderful childhood memories lifelong.
5. Exercise Competitions.
Skipping, jumping jacks, squatting and standing, running, etc. are fun exercises you can challenge your kids. Kids have better stamina than us.
Benefits:
Improves fitness and releases happy hormones. Kids will build the pleasant habit of exercising. Their growth and digestive health will improve magically.
6. Learning a New Language Together.
It’s a super fun activity together. You can learn a new language or languages together for some minutes every day. We are learning Japanese now, as my kid is saving his money for the Japan trip.
We are using an app called Duolingo. It’s fun to learn here. You may download it from this link: https://www.duolingo.com/.
Benefits:
Our brain becomes smarter when we learn a new language. It’s also super beneficial for personal growth and better career opportunities.
7. Fix and Solve Math for Each Other.
If your kid is a math lover, then these quality time activities will get a big like from him! Challenge and solve math with kids, outside of their textbooks.
There is a wonderful online learning platform I visit with kids called Khan Academy. You can visit that too. Here is the link: https://www.khanacademy.org/.
Benefits:
Improves Kid’s critical and logical thinking. The brain works smarter in any other intellectual challenges.
8. Speech Time.
Before dinner, for 10 minutes every day, you can enjoy speech time. Pretend a situation like making your kid a future Prime Minister or CEO of a company. Then let him/her make a welcome speech or motivational speech. With your kids, you may watch public speaking videos of different famous people.
Benefits:
Improves communication skills and networking. It also boosts confidence and gives clarity of thinking.
9. Surprise Family Parties.
Sometimes throw surprise family parties without occasions. Encourage your kids to be the host as well. You may call your relatives and close ones as well.
Benefits:
Your kids will improve their social skills. It will reduce stress, frustration, and boredom. It will focus your kids on positive childhood memories.
10. Nature Time.
Enjoy some nature time together every week. You can plant trees in your garden or any bare space and take care of them with your kids.
Tell them the effects of global warming and why we need to take care of mother nature. Make themselves familiar with birds, flowers, fruits, and bugs.
Benefits:
Being close to mother nature heals our inner self. Let’s teach the next generation to take care of our planet.
11. Good Deed Day.
Celebrate a day of the week as a good deed day. You can feed animals, and birds or visit your old relatives, etc. together.
Benefits:
Your kid will understand the value of kindness. He will grow up as a responsible human.
Let me point out again:
- Write a Family Book.
- Schedule Stupid Time.
- Make Crafty Gifts for Each Other.
- Explore Unknown Roads.
- Exercise Competitions.
- Learning a New Language Together.
- Fix and Solve Math for Each Other.
- Speech Time.
- Surprise Family Parties.
- Nature Time.
- Good Deed Day.
Thanks for reading.
Please let me know your quality time ideas in the comment section below.
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