"They grow up so fast!"

Whenever you hear it, there’s a part of you that secretly worries: Am I spending enough time with my kids?

It’s exhausting scraping a family through a typical week—feeding them, taxiing them around, helping older kids with homework, guiding them through emotional ups-and-downs…

Throw in paid employment, extended families, sport commitments and more and it’s no wonder parents stagger through to Friday night, order takeaway, do a head count and flop on the couch.

I’m bored!

Take the screens away and what have we got? (Mild panic, in some cases!) Are we losing the art of face-to-face interaction? And where’s the fun gone? Why is there so much whinging?

How much deeper might our relationships be if everyone switched off from Facebook for half an hour and switched on to the faces around them. What if we stopped documenting everything in images, put the cameras down and just enjoyed ourselves?

 But here’s the embarrassing thing. Many parents have forgotten how!

Growing up, it was all about play. We’d play for hours, on our own, with our siblings, with the neighbour’s kids… We’d make things up, and laugh and move and run and, at the end of the day our bodies and our imaginations would fall into a long, deep sleep.

‘Go and entertain yourself for half an hour’ inevitably leads many of today’s kids straight to an iPad, or the TV or computer or smart phone and even the incoming smart watch. That stuff is cool, but there’s something even cooler, and cheaper, and better for their development…

It’s not about recreating the 80s or 90s and taking the tech stuff away. It’s about adding back in the face-to-face, screen-free, interactive Family Time Fun that makes real memories, builds confident, happy children and sets up our parent-child relationships for the teenage years.

 Follow the leader. (Tip! You’re in!)

Family Time Fun helps parents rediscover how to have fun with their kids. The 90-minute session shows parents just how easy, simple, inexpensive and enjoyable family play can be.  Parents leave the sessions feeling younger, lighter and better equipped to interact meaningfully with the people they love most. They’re given a plan to introduce a 30-minute Family Night once a week, and know how to get the kids engaged in it.

Thirty minutes of family focus weekly might not seem like much, until you see the look on your child’s face, the excitement in their eyes and watch their self-esteem flourish…

Ready to strengthen your family? Find out more.