Some advantages of having a family are increased happiness and satisfaction. Studies have shown that spending time with family can help reduce stress and anxiety, lead to a healthier lifestyle and lengthen your life. Family gives you motivation to be the best version of yourself.

Three benefits are:

1. Strengthens Family Bonding

One of the benefits of spending time with family and indulging in leisure activities together, is that it strengthens the family bond. This holds true to all type of family activities. They don’t always need to be fancy activities that require a bigger sum of money. Even home-based, low-cost activities such as game night, movie night, gardening, or playing outdoors have a big impact on the ‘health’ of the family relationships. These positive behaviors make everybody in the family feel closer emotionally to each other, which is always a good thing. These mundane everyday group activities are known as a family’s “core” activities. Those that require much time, money, and planning (special events, vacations) are called “balance” activities.

2. Quality Family Time Improves Child’s Academic Performance

The academic success of a child is associated with having his/her parents provide help and guidance when needed. The first steps are always the hardest and most important. This holds true especially in terms of studying. If you, as a parent, provide essential guidance through your child’s first academic school years, this will have a positive effect on the child’s life in future. If you help your kid with school matters, it is more likely for him/her to receive a better education. This gives them an opportunity to land a better paying job in the future.

3. Spending Time With Family Helps Kids Develop Parenting Skills

Time together with the parents helps the kids develop parenting skills. As strange as it may sound, it really is true. Kids learn by example. If you set a good example on how to behave with your children, your son or daughter will remember that. They will naturally apply these ‘parenting skills‘ in the future with their children. In fact, you will probably notice siblings treating each other in the ways you treat them. I have heard my daughter tell my son, “Now Leo, would you like it if someone did that to you? Don’t do something you wouldn’t like done to you.”