One form of Quality Time is Quality Activities, which are those during which you give your child undivided attention. Quality Activities might include going to a movie together, reading bedtime stories, playing a ball game, teaching a child to cook or showing a child how to do something. It is not the activities themselves that are important, it is your full attention that communicates love to your children.

According to Dr. Gary Chapman, there is an emotional love tank inside everyone of us, including children. When our Emotional love tank is full, that means we feel loved by significant people in our lives. Likewise, when children’s emotional love tank is full…

• They feel connected to important people in their lives.

• They feel accepted for who they are.

Do you find that even though you really care about and love your  children, they  don’t seem to understand your love? Whatever you say, your words are being tuned out or ignored. Your  children talk back at you, scream or yell at you, or even run to their room and slam the door.