Do you find you get caught up with society and send your kids to all sorts of activities every afternoon?  Spending most of your time in the car and rushing them from here to there.  What happened to the good ol’ days where kids came home from school and just hung out doing unstructed play in the back yard and not running around everywhere to activities.

As you embark on a new year my challenge to you is to find the balance between unstructured play and scheduled activities.  If you find your children are always tired and cranky, they don’t want to go to after school activities, fighting you all the time and have no time at home with the family – then maybe it’s time to reassess.

Think about trying to bring in some free home time and possibly drop one activity if you decide to pick up another.  Find your child’s passion and focus on that.

In the end it’s your family that will benefit and mum’s won’t feel as stressed because the kids aren’t as anxious or stressed.  But in the meantime enjoy the Christmas School Holidays, remember to hug your kids today and tell them you love them .