How to get parents to spent more time with their children if they have busy jobs?

Question

How to get parents to spent more time with their children if they have busy jobs?

Answer 1

Try to make them understand that they have to learn to live within their means.  People can only do that and be happy if they truly understand the meaning of happiness, most people have a skewed sense of what happiness is.  It's hard to get parents to just think differently, it's a process and sometimes it takes a whole lifetime, when it's too late....

Answer 2

Family needs to be the number one priority. If working less is not an option, then I'd say to make sure some special time is set aside EVERY day for the kids. For us, it's all about quality time, not quantity.

Answer 3

Work less. Family is more important, and they should have thought of that before being business people. It's sad that some parents would rather be at work than spend time with their kids! It's selfish and wrong.

Answer 4

You have to MAKE time. If your job is requiring you to work more than normal, then they will have to be made to understand you need family. There is something called work/life balance. This is what I have done at my work. I bust my a&& during work hours, then spend time with my kids while they are awake (no matter my workload). I then work more when they are asleep so that I can have that time with them.

Answer 5

Make a plan for weekly time together.  Set it aside and make that family time.  This is a good start and it will eventually blossom into much more.

Answer 6

It's not about quantity so much as it's about quality. Sometimes the jobs cannot be helped, especially in this kind of an economy.

If they are parents then they need to step up and do what needs to be done. They are not victims. They chose this life. They need to get a game plan together. Take the time and map something out. Change or alter it as needed. It should be a living document. The kids should know what is expected of them, etc. The parents are in charge and should want to spend some time with the kids. They should have time to themselves. In order to do that, you need a plan or schedule. It doesn't have to be rigid. It's just to put some thought into it instead of just going with the flow because that's how you run out of time.

Good time management.

Answer 7

I'm assuming you want your parents to spend more time with you? It's a sad thing, but a lot of parents have children because they feel like it's the next step in their lives without understanding the repercussions behind it. If i were you, I'd tell your parents how alone you're feeling and how you wish that they would spend time with you. Tell them that you miss them and even use a story about how "Lily's" mom came to get her from school and you'd like your mom to do that too. Parent don't realize a lot of the mistakes that they make. Many believe that working really hard and earning money is making your life better. If you just reason with them that you feel left out, I'm sure they'll come around.

Answer 8

This is probably the biggest overall contributing factor to family units that break down.

Very sad situation.

Once upon a time, one of the parents, and it usually was the mother, would stay home to raise the children. This is a dying practice, and unfortunately so. It isn't as important to have the mother stay home necessarily as it is to have one of the two parents stay home to raise the children. Dads have often made wonderful Mr. Moms.

The family unit will often times break down when there is little to no quality time spent and the careers, instead, will take precedence.

The argument against what I am advocating is that, anymore, families need that double income. My answer to that is yes and no. My rebuttal will often be this: How many cell phones and computers does one need in a family? Is there another way that the double income earning family can cut expenditures so that only one of the parents is the bread winner? In most cases, the answer is often times a no.

It is very important for the two income earners to sit down together and map out a plan, a course of action. A mission to save the family unit and keep it from falling apart.

Families in such situations are going to have to take action some time. Otherwise the consequenses are enormous.

Does anyone really want to take that risk?

I say anything is possible, but I am one to always look at things with optimistic eyes. If you start placing barriers with every situation, your problems will remain unsolved.

I hope this has helped some.

Answer 9

when they cook the child could probably help depending on the age. they could watch tv together. the best way is for the parent to find time to spend with the child. maybe the children and the parents should get their work done early so there's more time.

Answer 10

The first thing would be, if possible take an occasional day off to spend with your kids. Do you work weekends? If not, why not set aside a day each weekend to spend with your children. Do you have vacation time? Take a family vacation.

If this isn't an option, then set aside an hour after work to spend with your kid, even if it's only for a bedtime story. Make sure that you give your child your undivided attention for this time, otherwise what's the point?

Answer 11

Today I saw people driving a Land Rover, and they were trailering behind it a little kids' drivable Ferrari.......

Kids don't need their parents to drive Land Rovers and they don't need to drive miniature Ferraris.....

EDIT: The Land Rover costs more than I made last year-- so, having nannies raise the kids and then  buying them miniature cars when they're 6 is pretty disgusting to me....

Answer 12

we manage...

Answer 13

Unless it is a total financial emergency, ie: food vs. no food, then there is no reason that parents should be that busy on their jobs.  This is the problem with children in society today.  People are too busy thinking that buying their children the newest video game is the most important and THAT is why they have to work.  Children are missing out on too much from their parents.  Try and get them to understand this point.