{"id":227,"date":"2007-02-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/24\/6-spend-time-with-a-child-ten-ways-to-improve-your-quality-of-life\/"},"modified":"2007-02-18T22:41:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T03:41:48","slug":"6-spend-time-with-a-child-ten-ways-to-improve-your-quality-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/25\/6-spend-time-with-a-child-ten-ways-to-improve-your-quality-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"6. Spend Time With a Child | Ten Ways to Improve Your Quality of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the sixth in a <a href=\"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/10-ways\/\">series of 10 articles<\/a> that give suggestions meant to improve the over-all quality of your life.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" height=\"268\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Swinging\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/images\/swinging.jpg?resize=400%2C268\" \/><br \/>\n6. <strong>Spend time with a child<\/strong>. If you have one, consider yourself lucky, if you don&#8217;t, I bet you have friends who would be happy to let you borrow theirs for a few minutes (or hours). It doesn&#8217;t matter what age they are, children see the world entirely different. Look at it from their eyes. Be their hero. Appreciate what they appreciate. Enjoy the simple things again. You&#8217;ll love it and they&#8217;ll love you for it.<\/p>\n<p>Take the time to just do the things they want to do rather than being a teacher. With my son this would usually include one of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Playing with sticks or dirt<\/li>\n<li>Reading Where&#8217;s Waldo<\/li>\n<li>Playing with Play Doh<\/li>\n<li>Swinging at the Park<\/li>\n<li>Playing the &#8220;talking car game&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Children will help you appreciate the simple things in life. They&#8217;ll keep you on your toes with questions that you can&#8217;t even begin to answer. They&#8217;ll amaze you with the seemingly endless levels of energy they have. After spending time with a child you&#8217;ll also realize just how much of an influence you are over their moldable minds&#8211;they almost worship you. It is a humbling experience.<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 10px\">Technorati Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/knowledge\">knowledge<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/learning\">learning<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/lifehacks\">lifehacks<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/lists\">lists<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/love\">love<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/productivity\">productivity<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the sixth in a series of 10 articles that give suggestions meant to improve the over-all quality of your life. 6. Spend time with a child. 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