FAMILY DAY: CREATING BONDS
ARCELIE G. SANTOS
Spending quality time with children is very important. For most of them, LOVE spells as TIME. Aside from building a good relationship, spending quality time with them makes the children feel secure and confident. It’s good to have a family, but it’s better to have a healthy family.
“Family Day” in most school is being celebrated to help create a strong bond and connections among family members. This can be done by providing different fun activities and games. The school “San Isidro National High School” had its first Family Day with a theme “Creating Bonds” last September 27, 2018 for Grades 7, 8 and 9 and September 28, for Grades 10, 11 and 12. The school believes that this event for high school students increases the chance of their parents to be involved in their education. Some high lights of the event are team games, reading messages for parents and film showing about the importance of spending quality time with family. The event may be unusual for some of the students because of their age and level for believe that such event is for elementary students, but at the end of the day both students and parents including teachers expressed their happiness on the said event.
There were students as they read messages for their parents, were easily carried by their emotions in expressing their love and appreciation on their parents’effort in attending such event and always being with them. Despite of the parents’busy schedule, finding time to be with their children in school in something to be proud of. The activity helps not only to create bonds between family members but also among the families of the entire Isidrian community.
Aside from attending family day in school, there are many ways to create a strong family bond. Doing household chores together, having dinner with complete family members, going to church together, scheduling family activities, sharing experiences and many more. The more time the family spend together the more it becomes healthy. This will help the child to develop good values, strong character and positive sense of self worth.
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The author is Teacher III at San Isidro National High School, San Luis