To not understand what "Family Days" are

[fredfredgeorgejnr]

Lots of posters talk about how important family days are, seemingly once a week minimum is acceptable, but at the same time posters are saying how they spend so much of the weekend doing nothing or catching up on chores, or shopping, or driving their kids to various activities.

So what are family days, what do you do with toddlers that takes an entire Saturday or Sunday? And is it really every week?

My teens are so busy during the summer months, that I have to write 'family day' on the calendar and insist that nobody makes other arrangements.

Despite me having to be bossy about it (it wouldn't happen otherwise), we all love these days when we're all together.

We tend to pack a picnic and go walking, or down to the river for a swim.

For us weekends involve a mixture of jobs and a fun activity like trip to the park together or national trust etc. No specific day And often joined with friends and their dc.but then i don't get date night with dh - dh and I spend most evenings he's not working together watching a film and chatting etc. We sometimes go out but not often.

I like to have a full day when we just do stuff together- from breakfast to bedtime- and we set the schedule all day.

It doesn't feel quite the same to me if DH pops into work for a couple of hours frequent weekend occurrence or if DS has a party or a club to go to.

We definitely do not average one a week in term time but then sometimes have so many back to back in the school holidays that I consider putting DH and DS up for rent.

We don't call a day a family day. We have weekday evenings that are taken up with clubs/making tea/homework/running housework/baths/early bed times - regular stuff. Then we have weekends when I do a bigger clean and we either go out and do stuff together (walk the dog/eat icecream) or with other families (lunch if a birthday) - fun stuff.

Not against people having a 'family day' if that's what floats their boat. Each to their own.