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Spending time together with your children is a great opportunity to create and support their healthy and positive thinking.
- It builds your child’s self-esteem: it helps them build a positive sense of self-worth and be more positive about themselves because they are being valued by their parents.
- It strengthens family bonds: Studies have found that families who enjoy group activities together share a stronger emotional bond as well as an ability to adapt well to situations together.
- It develops positive behaviors: Children and adolescents who spend more time with their parents are less likely to get involved in risky behaviors.
- It encourages communication: When you spend time with your children you are fostering an environment for open communication. It can help make your children comfortable talking to you about anything.
- It helps your child’s academic performance: helping your children with schoolwork or reading together, especially in their early years, will foster an environment that values academics.
- It can help your children become good friends: Children learn by example. Once you set a good example for them by spending quality time together, they are more likely to adopt those behaviors in other relationships in their lives.1
Dr. Riad Moubarak
Paediatrcian
