"SEC-S30W1: Family Bonding Activities"

Family bonding time is one of the beautiful things we can do together as a family. This challenge brought back a lot of good memories for me while growing up. Times have changed but family remains. We are all grown and everyone have left home to build their own home.

While most of my siblings all live apart from each other, I still have the blessing of having a sister around me who is my family and I was glad to share this experience with her. We had a good time bonding.

Your family is to select 3 activities from the ones listed above and tell us which ones you have selected

Out of the five activities listed, we selected three and they include

• Talking about our day; the highs and lows
• Eating together without our phones
• Watching a movie together

Carry it out as a family and tell us how you did them.

Talking about our day; the highs and lows

Yesterday was a very interesting day for me and my sister. She left for a meeting while I stayed indoors recovering from my roller coaster of a week I had. She came back late and exhausted and said she needed to sleep. I wanted to hear the gist about how her day went but it had to wait for later.

So today after church, we sat at the sit out to have a good time of bonding before heading home. I needed to hear the gist about her day yesterday. It was a Herculean day she said. She left early without eating cos I was still sleeping when she left. They were asked to be on time by 8am to where they were going to.

She arrived on time but they were delayed for extras three hours waiting for others. She told about how she had been so hungry and they finally got to their destination around 12pm. They went for a company launch and then to the streets for marketing.

She said they shared small chops but it didn’t get to her. He told of how she walked under the sun with a colleague marketing the company product and she hadn’t had anything to eat all day. Some of the persons ignored her while some listened. It was really a hectic experience for her, that was why she was exhausted when she came back yesterday.

On my own hand, I was indoors battling stomach ache and headache. I told her how I was glad I never had to go to that event with her. I would have literally fainted on the way due to my health status. But today both of us are better.

Eating together without our phones

After our chit chat, we headed home and when we got home, we decided we would eat vegetable soup and swallow. We already had food in the freezer. My sister warmed the food while I washed the left over dirty dishes. After that she dished the food for each of us and we ate together.

Sometimes we eat together and sometimes we eat apart but one bad habit I learnt from where I don’t know is always eating with my phone, for me eating time was movie time but today we ate together without our phones. Sometimes she’s also on her phone while eating but hers isn’t as bad as mine. But today for the first time in a long while, I ate without pressing my phone.

Watching a movie together

After food then came movie time. Both of us are not big on movies but we watched a movie together on my laptop. The tittle of the movie is “where love lives”. It was a very interesting movie about the test of love. We really enjoy watching the movie together. The dialogue and suspense was interesting.

What are the challenges involved in getting everyone to do this activities together

I believe the larger the family, the more challenging it would be to bring everyone together but it wasn’t so challenging as it’s just the two of us and we are two grown people. We were able to decode what we wanted to do and we worked together to achieve it.

What are the gains

A lot. First the talking about our days was a great time of bonding as we were both able to pour out our hearts to each other. Like lifting a weight off one’s shoulder. Talking about our day was therapeutic indeed. And we had a good laugh at my sisters ordeal while pitying her.

The eating time helped installed some level of discipline to me and I finished eating on time as there was no distractions with my phone.

The movie time was great relaxation time and argument time about the movie turnout and suspense. It was really a memorable experience.

Who in the family enjoyed these activities the most?

Ohhh, definitely me. As the institutor and inspirer. I really had a good time and my sis did too. She was glad to join in the fun.

Did it help to bond your family together in a special way? Tell us

Yes, we had a good laugh and heart to heart talk and even had to decipher one or two ways to better with the marketing meeting she went for. I learnt a lot from her gist.

We had a great time eating together without our phones. Less distraction and also the movie time was a great time for relaxation and gisting as we disused the different movie characters alongside watching.

It was a great time of fun and bonding and we totally enjoyed it. Thank you.

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