Keeping Time With Family Is Healthy For Your Emotional State
Posted by Joanne Rapfield in Uncategorized, tags: children, family, kids, marriage, parenting, spouse, stress, Uncategorized, vacation, workIt is time to disconnect those computers and TVs so that families can spend further quality time with their household members. Family time continues to suffer as time depleted by family members on the the web and watching Television rises. A study on American families revealed that household members are spending increasingly more time on the computer than with other household members. Together with others, results showed that an internet user spends 3 hours online every day and 1.7 hours daily in watching Television.
The home is slowly losing its role as an emotional support. There is a decline occuring as more adults are paying no attention to their spouses and children, and kids are not minding their parents and siblings. The family is supposed to be the learning center of coming leaders and productive individuals. In the residence, adults and children are expected to experience and share love and to interpret this to the larger population. It is in the home where faith, support, kindness, and how to deal with anger, failure, embarrassment, etc. are “caught” by growing children. Parents become role models as they continue to strengthen emotionally and aim to live life to the max.
There is no substitute for the home as an emotional cradle. Observations on a lot of teenagers demonstrate that they are intelligent, but many of them lack emotional intellect. To put it simpler, many of them do not comprehend how to “read” others - not even their own selves. It has been understood that emotional intellect refers to the knack of a person to comprehend, read, and deal with his or her own emotions. This can only be learned when an individual is given the time to live, work, and play with real people.
What transpires nowadays in many families is that online acquaintances or Television news and superheroes hook family members into spending ever more time with them. A 2004 survey on internet use exposed a noteworthy correlation between time spent with the family and time spent online. An average user denies his or her family 23.5 minutes day after day for every hour that he or she spends online. Sleep pattern is also affected, with the internet user getting an average of 8.5 minutes less sleep per day for each hour spent online.
If online contacts, games and Television programs turn out to be more notable than the actual people that family members reside with, then families will suffer. People should spend more time with “real” friends in their houses. Getting together around the dinner table or taking an inexpensive family outing are just some simple ways of family bonding. Families become more cohesive when they are interacting face-to-face more often. By doing so, each member will come to understand each others heartfelt interests and appreciate what they think and feel.
Usually I do not write about spending time with friends and family. I’m so busy writing about using an IP changer to defend your online identity that I tend not to spend time with my own kids. So I thought I would write this piece and then unplug for a week.
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