Quality Time With Your Kids At Christmas

By Gary Chapman

We've heard a great deal of talk about quality time in recent years.

With more and more two-income families and so many single parents we are pressured for time. While adults are talking about quality time, children are starving for it. 

Indeed much of the misbehavior of children is a cry for quality time. To the child, even negative attention seems better than no attention.

Quality time means giving a child your undivided attention. 

We are forced to do this when they are infants, but as they get older we often let other responsibilities pull us away from our children. 

May I challenge you to make time to look your children in the eyes, to listen as they talk, to ask questions, to communicate to them, "You are important to me." 

It's time well invested.

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God bless your family and your marriage.

Jim Stephens