When parents want to bring more joy into the home
You want your home to be a joyful place — full of fun, laughter, and play — and you worry it has become too serious, too busy, too grim, and that your children are growing up in a joyless household. You want, as parents, to bring more joy into your home and model for your children a life worth delighting in.
That you want a joyful home for your children is a lovely thing to bring a fool. Your children learn joy by watching you — they absorb whether life is to be enjoyed or endured from the grown-ups around them, so if the parents are always grim and hurried, that is what the children learn adulthood is; by becoming parents who visibly enjoy life, laugh, and play, you teach them the most important thing — that life is good and joy is part of it. Make the home a place where fun is welcome — where silliness is allowed and laughter is common and no one feels delight is a waste, a tone the parents set together. And let your children teach you to play, too — they are experts in joy and can lead you back to your own, so follow them into their play, and as you do, you recover your capacity and they get a parent present in their fun. You model joy for them, they revive it in you. What's the climate of your home right now?
What changes unlock by starting
- You see your children learn joy by watching you
- You model delight for them, together
- You make the home welcome fun and play
- You let your children teach you to play too