My wife and i take our kids out individually once each school term... we call it special time and its a great time to just be one on one with them... We set a budget but they can choose what we do (usually it involves food and a small activity - nothing too fancy its about the time together)..
Anyway this weekend i went out with my teenager and i was determined both to build our relationship and have a laugh.. We went for some (fast!) food and then onto the cinema... Conversation began to flag and i had a sudden brainwave that worked; i said :
You've got to tell me two things about yourself i could never know and i'll do the same
Genius - obviously i had to air some of my skeletons (i focussed on some of the things i did as a teenager myself - some of which my mum still doesn't know 🙂 unfortunately she has the reverse over me!
Thought it was a good one to share on the forum... any other top tips on spending quality time with you kids?
Great idea...when my daughter was little we used to go out on 'dates' together. Usually to see a movie, just the two of us. Haven't done it in a while though so will see what she is doing this weekend... 😀
on the advice of a mate i started spending one on one time with my sons. With the older one i tried to do really big adventure stuff last August we went camping overnight in a another mates farm. It was awesome, we played pirates and stayed up really late, lite a fire and had a fab time. Then in the moring we helped with the animals ands headed off to McD's for breakfast.
If your on Facebook go to the dadtalk facebook group to see a video of our adventure! 😀