Spending Time With Your Family Is Healthy For Your Emotional Well Being
People need to verify if their computers or Televisions are stealing the valuable time that they need to be spending with other members of the family. There is a growing unease about the increased amount of time that families spend browsing the internet or watching television. Lots of American family members are spending a smaller amount of time with other family members as revealed in a survey. The numbers show that an internet user spends an average of 3 hours online every day, while viewers spend an average of 1.7 hours each day in watching TV.
The home is little by little losing its position as an emotional cradle. There is a decline occuring as more adults are paying no attention to their partners and children, and children are not mindful of their parents and siblings. The family is supposed to be the molder of future leaders and productive individuals. In the home, parents and children are expected to experience and share love and to translate this to the larger community. It is in the home where faith, support, kindness, and how to handle anger, loss, embarrassment, etc. are "captured" by maturing children. Parents become role models as they continue to strengthen emotionally and endeavor to live life to the max.
No other public organization can perform as an emotional structure. Many teenagers of nowadays show that they are intelligent, but they are deficient in emotional intellect. They are not well-prepared to "comprehend" other people - not even their own selves. The power of anyone to comprehend, translate and manage his or her own emotions is measured by emotional intelligence. An individual can only learn this when he or she is given the time to live, work, and play with actual people.
In many families these days, members waste increasingly more time either with their online friends or their TV news and superheroes. A 2004 survey on internet use confirmed an association concerning spending time online and time spent with the family. Surprisingly, it was found that family members are denied an average of 23.5 minutes by a user for every hour he or she spends online on a daily basis. The ordinary surfer also will get a lesser amount of sleep by about 8.5 minutes per day for each hour he or she spends on the computer.
Online associates or games and Television programs should not take over the actual people that family members reside with. Family members should strive to spend more time with "actual" friends in their homes. There are simple and reasonably priced methods of family bonding. Meeting around the dinner table and going on an inexpensive family jaunt are good illustrations. Families develop more cohesiveness when members act together in person more often. Members get to comprehend one another better, and will come to be aware of each others real interests and get to be familiar with what they think and feel.
The home is little by little losing its position as an emotional cradle. There is a decline occuring as more adults are paying no attention to their partners and children, and children are not mindful of their parents and siblings. The family is supposed to be the molder of future leaders and productive individuals. In the home, parents and children are expected to experience and share love and to translate this to the larger community. It is in the home where faith, support, kindness, and how to handle anger, loss, embarrassment, etc. are "captured" by maturing children. Parents become role models as they continue to strengthen emotionally and endeavor to live life to the max.
No other public organization can perform as an emotional structure. Many teenagers of nowadays show that they are intelligent, but they are deficient in emotional intellect. They are not well-prepared to "comprehend" other people - not even their own selves. The power of anyone to comprehend, translate and manage his or her own emotions is measured by emotional intelligence. An individual can only learn this when he or she is given the time to live, work, and play with actual people.
In many families these days, members waste increasingly more time either with their online friends or their TV news and superheroes. A 2004 survey on internet use confirmed an association concerning spending time online and time spent with the family. Surprisingly, it was found that family members are denied an average of 23.5 minutes by a user for every hour he or she spends online on a daily basis. The ordinary surfer also will get a lesser amount of sleep by about 8.5 minutes per day for each hour he or she spends on the computer.
Online associates or games and Television programs should not take over the actual people that family members reside with. Family members should strive to spend more time with "actual" friends in their homes. There are simple and reasonably priced methods of family bonding. Meeting around the dinner table and going on an inexpensive family jaunt are good illustrations. Families develop more cohesiveness when members act together in person more often. Members get to comprehend one another better, and will come to be aware of each others real interests and get to be familiar with what they think and feel.
About the Author:
Typically I do not write about spending time with friends and family. I'm so busy writing about using an anonymous proxy to defend your Internet privacy that I tend not spend time with my own family and friends. So I decided I would write this article and then unplug for awhile.