Family Time

Today's article focuses on family and how to find time to spend with them.

In our modern day lives, with work, sports, entertainment and other commitments, it is easy to overlook the quality time that we could be spending with out families.

Quality time with your family helps to build and bind relationships; and whats more it can be free or very cheap, and you can do it almost anywhere. In fact just as I was writing this article my daughter came into the room and asked me to see the tower she had just built - writing this article I had to oblige!!!

So today - been Sunday - I am not going to write to much; I just want to remind you how important your family is, that they are growing all the time, and to value every day. Some activities you could do with your family include:

• Playing
• Going to the park
• Going swimming
• Going out for dinner
• Going for a walk
• Listening to music
• Riding your bikes
• Cooking
• Even cleaning the house (with a lot of people it can be quite fun!!!)

You can make the activitie as cheap or expensive as you want, the main thing is just to do something together. Personally my kids love cooking and - believe it or not - cleaning the car.

So go and spend some quality time with your family now!!!

In other news...

Your editor is going to a kids Birthday party at Hungry Jacks today with his three kids. His wife is going to a Tupperware Party so he will have them on his own. At the very least it will give him a chance to spend time with his kids, and let him meet the other parents at kinder.

On Friday evening after a conference near Albert Park, your editor thought it would be a good idea to go to the beach which was just near by. With howling winds in Melbourne this proved not to be a good idea!!! Getting out of the car the wind blew the sand directly into him, and his kids, the speed of the sand was that fast that it hurt. After five minutes, we decided to call it a day and go to a nice Thai resturant instead. After dinner, I took my son on a tram from Kew to Box Hill, while my wife drove with the other kids. It was a great bonding time, and my son (almost 3) loved it.