"Family, isn't about, Time?"

Time, i think is one thing that many people take for granted.  Here is a little story about Dan L. Johnson and how he helped his relationship with his son.

“One day I asked my son to bring his toys inside the house. I was astonished when he said he was ‘too tired.’ … Then a scene flashed into mind of the previous day, when my son had asked me to wrestle with him. What was my answer? I was ‘too tired.’ Or the time he wanted me to play catch [ball]—again I was ‘too tired.’

“… Days later, I asked my son to pick up his clothes and put them away. This time he was ‘too busy.’ I remembered the time he wanted a bedtime story. … I had been ‘too busy.’

“… I vowed to spend more time with my sons. Only hugging them, kissing them, and telling them I loved them didn’t fool them. They needed to jump, wrestle, and play with me too.

“Now I participate in more of their activities. …

“I’ve built tunnels and castles in sand piles and played with trucks. Praying and playing with them have helped me develop a wonderful relationship with them.

“With anything that takes effort, a reward comes. My reward came after an especially good half hour with my son. He wrapped his arms around my neck, gave me an affectionate kiss on the cheek, and said, ‘I love you, Dad’” (Dan L. Johnston, “Daddy, I’m Talking to You,” Ensign, Sept. 1978, 71).

How true this is, as parents, thier job is to be the "Role Models" for the children.  About 80 out of 100 kids will follow in thier parents footsteps in one way or another.  If Partens spend time for thier kids, the Home will become more together.  In my own life, when i was younger, my Mom had a Chore list for us kids to do while my parents worked.  She did this to help us as well as to help the family.  We were to do a little cleaning each day so that we could spend a little time together when my parents got home.  Now as kids we procrastinated our chores and so it became a once a week thing to clean the house.  We were each to have a different chore to do, that to didnt go over so well.  Because our mom wasnt around to inspect our work, we just did it half way and called it "good enough".  Oh how we hated to do the chores, we thought it was a waist of our time and we thought about the things that we liked that we could be doing.  Now after my Mom had spent months and months of trying different ways, techniques, and modes to have the chores be the simplest and easy, yet affective.  My Mom got an idea, The family started to so the chores together and somehow make it fun.  That was the trick, "Together"  my little brother and sister dont hate doing chores anymore because the family does them together.

Time is the most presious thing family can give each other, so spend it, together