If a child is a life priority that is important for parents, one thing parents need to do is to spend time with their children. It is a lie when parents say that a child is a priority of his life but he never has time spent with his children in everyday life. Provision of time together with children at least needs to pay attention to two important aspects namely quantity and quality. Quantity refers to how much and how often parents make time with their children.
Of course the more positive aspects of this quantity depend on the more and more often the time provided. Meanwhile, quality refers to the value or quality of togetherness that occurs. The higher the value or quality of togetherness will be marked by the more positive development of children and parents. Today, providing time with children is not an easy matter for parents.
The first reason is the busy work of parents. The increasing demands of socio-economic needs encourage increased work time. In addition, in contrast to the past, now not only is the wrong parent who works but both parents. This has led to the threat of providing time for their children.
The second reason for the difficulty in providing time with children is that the parents' aspirations for their own hobbies, pleasures, and needs will automatically take up their time. Nowadays there are many parents who spend their time doing hobbies and pleasure themselves. In addition to individual hobbies, many also spend their time to do hobbies that relate to other people, for example, what happens is a lot of relationships in cyberspace.
Providing time with children alone has several benefits. The first is to tighten the bond between parents and children. Close and quality relationships between children and parents will have a positive effect on the child and eventually on the parents themselves. Children who have close and quality relationships will experience psychological well-being. In addition, with the support of parents that occur in close relationships, the child will develop optimally in many other aspects such as cognitive aspects, talent, social and so on.
The second benefit of providing quality time with children is the opportunity for parents to know and even play a role in various aspects of the life of a child without children feeling that they are being intervened arbitrarily. Through togetherness with children, parents can follow as well as understand children in various stages of the development of life that they teach everyday. Thus, it is younger for parents to be personally accepted by children to know and even provide input to children in their daily lives.
