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Now that your children are back at school, you might have a bit more time to yourself to enjoy. But, Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons would like to know what your plans to make sure that you still have everyday shared moments of joy with your children are, and how you plan on making the most of the time you have with your children during term time.

Do you make sure that you have dinner round the table together every evening to catch up with each other’s’ days? Maybe you have a scheduled family film night? Or are you planning fun days out together for the weekends? Whatever your plans, let Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons know by posting below.

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I also laughed at having more time to myself. I'll let my boss know

I make sure to spend a few minutes each day reminding the DC about all the stuff they have left lying around the house and the importance of putting it away. They love this special moment. On a serious note, I chat with DC1 each morning as he likes to feel prepared for the day. At bedtime he just wants to go to sleep. DC2 is the opposite, so it all fits together.

DS is 10, but the 15 minutes before going to sleep cuddling on his bed is still a really important part of his day when we chat without any distractions.

As long as we still have enough light and warm enough weather then we try to get out each day after school and go to a park or the seaside and gave a picnic dinner. Come the colder weather and early setting of the sun we really miss our outside time.

We have an evening meal together every night when we chat about the day. Friday nights are film nights,at home, when we all pick a film together,have lots of treats or maybe a take away, and enjoy each other's company 😊

Spending time just making time to talk to DD and find out what's going on or worrying her at the moment.

Walking home from school on the days I can pick her up is one of my favourite times of the day. I always read to and hear her read every night. I love sharing books with her.

Bedtimes and mealtimes. No screens at tea time either here for this reason.

I plan to eat some chocolate that doesn't have palm oil in it.

Weekends are definite family time - sport, hobbies, walks, meals out. DH and I both work and travel so we are very strict about keeping weekends for DC.

Other than that I still love the time spent with DC in the car on the way to/from school. It's our time to chat, to catch up, to share how our days have been.

We all have 30 mins snuggling in my bed before bed, where I read to them and we talk about their day before they head to bed.

Every now and then on random days we have nothing on after school, I pick them up from school and we drive the 35 mins into our nearest city for a special afternoon tea treat and a wander about looking for street artists and randomly placed sculptures that occasionally appear in a local church yard.

Bedtime story every night, I think I hear much more about her day in those moments when she's desperate to avoid the impending doom of lights out time We also have pizza and movie night every Sunday, which is the only night we eat in front of the telly. All other dinners are at the table, no phones or screens, so we can eat and talk.

At the weekend, we have a big brunch all together - much nicer than a usual rushed breakfast.

It's a snapshot - but those ten - fifteen mins on the school run are my dd's chance to tell me about school. The victories and failures and the splay ground dramas. I love it!

always make time.even if you no what might come will be fluff or fluttering or lots of excited talk you don't understand askthem how there day was and let them run with it.being interested in the small stuff will mean they know they can come to you whenever too.
always try to have tea together.or some sort of slob time in front of the tv or just around eachother.
I don't know whether we are just very luck but for us this is just the norm.we don't have to fight to keep family around or mingle.doors aren't shut and all in separate rooms from when they come home.its more in the lounge round the table watching t.v throughout our whole family and throughout growing up with our own parents too.well deff. in the youngers years!

My children are quite grown up now and do their own things but I try to get time one evening a week around the table and we get board games out, Scrabble which they've played since they started reading, Monopoly, Taboo, Dingbats, Scruples etc... my DD even found an old games compendium on Saturday so we went back to basics with snakes & ladders

We make the most of our weekends. DH works shifts meaning he doesn't see the DC during the week (they're in bed when he gets home) so we always do something together at the weekend, usually walking the dogs exploring a new place.

Friday nights are our night for snuggling on the sofa under a blanket watching telly. We'll find a comedy to watch and all laugh together quoting the characters. I love Friday nights.

Every afternoon I tell them what I had for lunch and what my favourite thing about today was, then I ask them. Bedtime with each DC is special too. Most Saturdays we have breakfast in the supermarket café. Last Saturday I also took DD to Hamleys to buy a Build a Bear Pikachu with her birthday money. The whole trip without DS was special.

Oh, and DS 26 texted me last night from hospital, a random fact about Scottish law from Time Team, it seems that all moments with him are special at the moment.

My younger DC is nipping home from university on Weds evening to fetch something. We will have a lovely unexpected family meal together.

We always sit down around the table for a meal in the evenings and chat about the day but we also have special time set aside on a saturday morning to snuggle up and talk about the week gone and the week ahead as well as make plans for our day together.

I like to go out for an ice cream or cake in a cafe after school every now and then. It just puts a pleasant slant on a boring day at school/work.

My ds is obsessed with dr who, he thinks his bedroom is a tardis and he is a timelord. Every night he watches some dr who with his dad and then I read him a story in the tardis - at the moment it's Mathilda.

We have a regular family movie night, taking it in turns to choose the film, pizza, snacks, chocolate, snuggly blankets and cuddles. As the older 2 are now teens, it's a nice chance to relax together between the sleepovers and parties (them not me!).

I hate that i have to work two jobs , i hardly get to see my little girl - But weekends are family time ! and i always make sure i ask my little girl what SHE would like to do- this week she asked for a cardboard box to make a boat so that's what we did ;-) and made some choccie/banana cakes for her lunch box .she was happy so im a happy mummy too x