10 ways to show you care for your family

A lot of us are busy with jobs, managing the house and other activities we are involved with. It is really easy to lose sight of your family in the midst of your busy days.How many times have you heard yourself saying ‘I should have phoned my mum, but I’ve just not had the time.’ We are all in the same boat and unless we are consciously aware of who we are forgetting some people will fall out of our lives.
I am talking about all the family here, your wife, husband, children, mother, father, sisters, brothers, and friends.

1) Tell Them – This is a simple one yet extremely hard for some people to do. Tell your family you love them or if this is too hard, tell them how much they mean to you.
2) Show them - Surprise visits are a great way to tell your family you are thinking about them, as long as you get on with each other. This might be a little trickier with friends.
3) Call them – By making a habit of calling at least once a week you will start to feel something missing when you don’t do it. This is the same with friends; call them at least once a week or once every two weeks. Soon you’ll start to do this automatically.
4) Text your partner – I would say MAKE THE TIME, it takes 2 minutes to send a text and can mean so much.
5) Make time for your children – Your children are the most important people in the world. Take time out to connect with them, even half an hour a day. Just try and live in their world for half an hour. Younger children want attention all the time so this will be easy. With older children, it can be more difficult, but at least it will be recognised that you are trying.
6) Surprise them – Every once in a while do something different with your partner and children.
7) Give flowers for no reason – Nothing says it like flowers.
8) Spend alone time with your children – Children go through spells of preferring the company of a particular parent. When their preference turns to you make sure you utilise this time and spend some alone time with them. Children, depending what age they are, need to know you like them as well as love them. To show children you like them there is nothing better then spending time alone with them.
9) Flirt with your partner – Just because you have been together for a years Doesn’t mean you have to stop flirting with them. Keeping your partner interested in you can be achieved, amongst other ways, by flirting with them.
10) Eat with your family – This is one of the most important tips I could give to anyone about keeping your immediate family strong. Sit down to dinner every day with them. This is a great chance to talk, to gauge how each other is feeling, and just to be with each other. Your family will grow so strong because of this one act alone .