How often do you do things as a family?

my parents, my siblings and I do not usually go on out-of-town trips. but i would say that we are able to spend good times together here at our home. though it is as simple as eating together, watching television together, these simple things suffice our need of each other. the whole day at home, conversations just spontaneously occur and we are able to bond through all these simple things. i guess it is really good to plan for out of town trips or major activities to do as a family and gain new experiences as a family. but it is better to take every opportunity even just at home as a bonding moment for the family. ..i look forward in every waking moment that i would be spending the rest of my day with my family! it just feels so good! :D

Hi, Since my husband is working on weekdays Monday to Saturday,then only Sunday will be our family day. Nothing much we do,sometimes we will just laze at home,spend time together with our son or just go for a walk. Of course, during weekdays, we still do spent time together during dinner time and after dinner time. Since I am not working, so most of my time is with my son. But for my husband, of course, he has lesser time spent together with our son, therefore Sunday is the best time for father and son to have bonding moments.

The kids b*tch and moan about a lot of the things we've been doing. Sacramento being in the middle of CA gold country, we've done a lot of gold panning, visiting gold mines, caves, old gold rush towns, etc. Apparently they are thoroughly sick of gold, silver, gems, minerals, etc. lol They do like going to the movies, the arcade, mini golf, things like that....

Me and my family of four whom I live with will usually try to spend at least one occasion together whether that is going out together just for shopping or going to the cinema or restaurant or some other place of entertainment lol This mostly happens on the weekend because during the week we are all very busy with school or work and by the time we are back we are too knackered to do anything... XD

AS a mother i always do the best and the right thing for my family but i have some trouble making on how to please my husband to go on out together..He was so hard to please,all he wanted id to get out with my son without me.How can i call this a family i know his only here beside me just for the sake of our son.How can i please him..family supposed to have quality time together but bit so happened in my family that this part was missing.

I am the youngest girl of six older brothers - my parents had a nightmare getting us all together once we hit the teenage years! When I was younger we used to have to eat evening meals together and would have to go around the dinner table describing the best and worst thing that happened in our day. Obviously, the oldest of us began to leave and the dinner table got quieter and quieter. Now for Christmas my parents buy us all a diary/calendar. In the middle of December we have to tell Mum of all important dates to us in the next year so that she can write them in everyone's diary. As Christmas presents we must all organise one day's activity for the whole family on any day in the following year. Each sibling announces their activity day on Christmas morning and we all write it in our diaries. For the past three years I have organised a family trip to horse-racing, a day watching cricket and a tour around our favourite football club. My brothers have organised spa days, city sightseeing trips, music concerts and theatre trips. This means that whatever happens we have at least seven family days together in one year (and I'm in my twenties now) - they are days to look forward to throughout the year and that have continued despite the arrival of my brother's partners and children.

Family is an extension of oneself. My family spends lots of time together because we simply enjoy each other's company. We are all very busy in our own right but always manage to find time to spend with each other. If there is a significant other involved (none of us are currently married) they too are included in family activities. To be with us is to me one of us. The things we do may be modestly simply but they are the vehicle to us spending more time together as a family. We shop together, clean together, watch tv and movies together, take trips together and just generally hangout. There is no special thing that we plan to bring us together, we use whatever opportunity that presents itself and make the best out of it. Family is very important to all of us. We love each other and love sharing time with one another.

We still do a lot of things as a fsmily. i find that we did more together as a family when the children were younger. We seemed to have more family fun times then,

My dad is away most of the time for work.., and when he comes home every six months.., we see to it that we make for the time we missed bonding with him.., We watched tv and eat meals together.., clean the house together and goes to church together.. we go out on family picnic.., road trip and swimming at the beach., i love it when we are all together..=)

I also find it in my family.. We do not have enough time together because of the kind of job we have. We just do some roaming around the town together, going to the park, talking about what our kids do the whole week in which matters most for me; to know their activities and concern.

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It's been a long time since we last do anything as a family. My father is always working from noon til late night. WHile my brother is studying and working part time. My mom is a housewife, spending most of her time at home doing chores. As for myself, i rarely spend more than 8 hours at home. I'm too busy with work, shuttling everywhere. The only time we get to be together, is only during chinese new year, and everybody has no work and school. WHen there's such a chance, we will be eating steamboat for sure, but not talking much. Though we are a family, but we seem like strangers to each other.

Rather than leaving home, it would be better to stay put and have a nice time at home, if you need some quality time with your family. Just doing some household chore with the members of the family can itself be way of bonding. A trip may not possible always periodically due to prior commitments hence fun at home can equally be enjoyed

When i was a kid i used to do a ton of things in our family. Go to a mountain resort, have picnics...now we don't have time to eat together. I guess it's part of growing up.

we try to do the same as you. as our daughters get older, it gets harder and harder to get together.

We try to do something as a family every Sunday. It may not always be anything exciting.. we might just go to a playground, or just hanging out at my father in law's.. but Sunday has always been a family day and it's always the day we go out and do something. We can't always afford to do the things we want, unfortunately. There are a lot of things we want to be able to do sometime, but just don't have the money to right now.

My family distribute in three different city.we only have a chance to see each other in the end of the year.So we dont have time to do thing together.I wish i could spending more time with my parents.And doing thing together with my brother I aslo wish we could traveling together sometime

I must admit that we also don't get to do much together as a family. We also hardly find the time, with me being a bit workaholic. So it was a surprise yesterday when I was ablt to get home earlier than usual. We were sitting around in the living room when I realized that I had a couple of hours free time. So, I dragged the kids to a hike in a nearby hill. It was a great afternoon. Once a month, we also get to do a thing for the family. For the past couple of months, it has been to the movies. It's a bit expensive, but the quality time is well worth it.

hmmm, when i was young we use to do a lot of things as a family, going to church eating dinner outside, going to the beach, parks, going to the relatives arty, but now that i'm at my 20's we seldom do those thing together, instead i go to the beach with my friends going to parties with my friends going to church with my girlfiend. kind a sad if your'e reminiscing the past the laughters you shared going out together as a family.

My family used to do a lot together both of my parents were truck drivers so I spent the first 16 years of my life on the road with them so we have a really close family but in the last 2 years we have gone from living within half an hour of each other to living 10 hours apart so we really only get to talk on the phone now.