10 Best ways to improve family bonding

A happy family is a basic necessity for a child’s healthy growth. In parenting, family bonding plays an important role as it affects directly to your children. There are a few steps that will improve family bonding. By applying some tools you can create a happy atmosphere in the family and improve bonding with family members for a child’s healthy development.

It is important to build a healthy environment for a child’s healthy development, physically, cognitively, and emotionally. In a healthy environment, a child can thrive to its best and that development helps them for their entire life well-being.

To create a healthy environment in the home you should make the bond stronger with your child.

Here are the best ways to improve family bonding

1) Spend quality time

At this time everyone is busy in their life; adults are busy with their work and, children are busy with their studies. Social media and technology also play the role of villains in between as they eat most of our quality time without knowing.

These all reasons create a gap in our relationship as no one has time for others. Spending quality time is the best way to fill this gap between all. You can spend time together or with an individual as it is important to make your bond stronger specially with kids. Because they are in their developing years and, they need your support and warmth of your love.

Spending time with them gives them the freedom to express their feelings, to share their experiences, and to connect with you.

Your focus should be on the quality of time instead of the quantity of time and plan it together at everyone’s comfortable time.

Spending quality time gives a sense of belonging and security to all family members, especially children. A sense of safety and being loved makes you emotionally connected and builds a strong bond between you and your child.

2) Plan family time

Planning a family time like an outing or picnic, go for a dinner or movie show that everyone can enjoy. Planning for trekking or visiting the amusement park is also a great choice if you have a teen child.

Make it more creative according to the wishes of the family. It will give you more time to spend together.

It definitely improves your bonding with your family. Research says that spending family time together improves social skills and high self-esteem in children.

When you are out with your family and spending your whole day together you can feel yourself rejuvenated as well as your relationship with family members. Children feel closer to you as this becomes the best time for them as you are with them the whole time with no distractions.

You can use this time to make your bond stronger with your family.

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3) Eat a meal together

Plan your meal together at least once a day, if possible, it may be breakfast or dinner as you like. If it’s hard to manage you can schedule a meal together once a week or on the weekend.

A meal together works best to improve family bonding because at the dining table all are feeling comfortable and in a light mood.

Sharing a joke or talk of the day makes your meal time more enjoyable as it becomes your quality time together. It also helps to make you stress-free as you see the happy faces of your loved ones.

Make this time and your relationship more beautiful.

You can enjoy a meal while having a fun time with family. It is a golden opportunity to make your family bond stronger.

You can sense the positive energy around your family as all are relaxed and, giggling and having fun talking.

4) Do modeling

As I always say, children are copycats. They are modeling us all the time. They are like mirrors that reflect our actions.

They learn from our actions and implement them in their own life. When we do some kind of act like helping each-others, showing love and compassion, being empathetic, respect and following some values, it directly instills them.

In fact, the other family members also start to follow you. In other words, they are connected via our actions which create a sense of togetherness in all family members.

The sense of togetherness makes one compassionate and empathetic towards the family members which makes a strong bond with each other.

5) Do chores together

Make a tradition of doing house chores together on month end or on vacation. It may be garden cleaning or home cleaning, declutter store room, or anything needed.

Make a to-do list, and distribute work among all appropriately and according to their age and ability, help each other if needed.

It will create a sense of togetherness among all. If someone has an issue with time, let them do it at their own pace. Children will love to work with you and help you.

This will take the burden off a single person and convert into family time and eventually turn into a strong family bond.

6) Have a family meeting

Start planning a family meeting once in a week or once in a month where all can discuss about the issues they face. You can plan it whenever you find an issue between the family members.

Give a chance to everyone to discuss the problem without interrupting. Ask for opinions and discuss the problem in general. Also, try to involve children in it if the problem is not too sensitive for them. If you find that someone has a personal issue that the person is not able to discuss with others, give them space to discuss the problem in separately.

Family meeting will create window from where you can see clearly. It’ll give you a hint where the problem arises. Have a clear talk with all and make a rule before you start family meetings like no one is allow to hurt anyone’s emotions and the language should be polite etc.

7) Encourage support

If you find that any of the members need help, give them support and encourage others to give support to the person.

In this way, your child knows the importance of family and feels connected with other family members. They learn to support others and also learn how to support others.

It becomes an important lesson of their life.

8) Set up the importance of family

Teach them the importance of family and family values. To make it more creative and fun for children you can also give task to make slogan that shows the family value.

This kind of task makes them aware of the family and its value. Children feel a bond with the family for their social skills and cognitive development.

9) Downtime is an energy booster

We cannot control everything all the time. Remind yourself that take a downtime in between, because it gives you an extra booster dose of energy.

Your downtime allows you to see the situation from a distance which inspires you to do better for yourself and your family. By doing this unknowingly you teach your child to have a break and take downtime in between their busy schedule.

10) Support your child

Give your child space to explore and experience. It is ok to set boundaries but it doesn’t mean that you ignore their freedom. Give them the opportunity to stretch their comfort zone and support them in their actions.

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11) Join others

Humans are social animals and need social attachment. Attend festivals and carnivals with your neighbors, friends, and other families. It gives a different experience to your children. They improve their social skill and adopt a healthy social life.

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