Hosting a family movie night is the perfect way to enjoy an evening with the whole family. Whether you have one child or a handful of children, having a family movie night once weekly or monthly is a great way to have bonding time. While there are many reasons to have a family movie night, I wanted to share the top 4 reasons to have a family movie night so that perhaps you may just start this as your new family tradition.
More Things to Talk About
As your children get older their interests change and it may be difficult finding things to talk about. While you can listen wholeheartedly to your child, there’s something cool about having a similar topic to discuss together.
Easy Way to Bond
As you become busier in life and work, and the children grow older and establish their own lives and careers, it can be challenging to find ways to bond as a family. With family movie night, it’s an easy way to bond over a movie that you all will enjoy together.
More Inside Jokes
It’s fun to have some family insides jokes so that only you and your children know what they mean. It’s a great way to encourage more laughter when you watch a comedy movie as a family and then take some of the jokes “on the road” as you interact together later on.
Relaxation Time
Everyone needs to have some relaxation time during their busy lives. Whether you opt to do a weekly or monthly family movie night, it’s something the whole family can look forward to enjoying as part of their relaxation from the busy week.
There you have it. There are four reasons to have a family movie night. This type of family tradition will inspire positivity within your household and, in turn, solidify the bond you have with your children. If you’re in a rut and uncertain of what movies to watch, here are some options that may work well: Wonder, Alice Through the Looking Glass, or any Marvel movie.
Family movie nights are just the best! It’s always something that I look forward to. It’s a great way to spend time with your family especially if you have been busy or haven’t seen them for some time.
I always love planning family movie nights especially when the kids come and visit. It’s a great way to relieve stress and spend time with family. I would love to plan another one when my son or daughter visits us!
We enjoy family movie nights! It’s always fun to gather while pigging out and watching something. Our next one will probably be when The Last Jedi comes out on DVD!
Shouldn’t have to have a reason. Just do it for fun. My daughter does this often. Everyone loves it.
We love some of the older comedies and can watch them again and again. Some favorites are Austin Powers, Napoleon Dynamite and Elf.
We love family movie nights! We try to add in a game or activity tied to the movie we are watching. For example we made Christmas cookies to snack on before watching THE STAR the other night. Played LEGO Dimensions Goonies level before watching the movie. Harry Potter CLUE was fun to play before watching one of the movies in those franchise. Nice to do something that has us interacting with one another as a family during a night in together rather than just sitting on the couch only watching the movie.
Movies are indeed one way to get the family on a level platform. So movie nights make for a great opportunity for family bonding. We love this concept.
Definitely! We do this more in the winter than other months, but it’s a low key way to spend time with each other and maybe watch something inspirational or laugh during a time when things aren’t so funny and people are stressed.
We do a lot of family movie nights. It’s a great way to spend time together, enjoying something we all like.
We are planning a family movie night tonight. Daddy’s Home 2 and fish from the local church’s fish fry. Not fancy, but after a long week I am really looking forward to it.
We do family movie nights quite a bit. My husband and son like to watch silly horror movies together.
My boys (10 & 6) love to do family movie nights. It seems to me they love the movie picking discussion the most based on the time we spend on that topic alone! I love it too, almost for the same reason.
We are actually having family movie night right now. Introducing our kids to Captain Jack Sparrow!
We alternate movie nights and game nights every weekend. My kids are older and I know they have different interests but I am just so glad that they always make time on the weekend to spend with us at home. We have literally built a DVD library of our favorite movies.
Our family movie night is one of our favorite traditions. We get great snacks and watch a movie together. Everyone enjoys it.
Saturday is our movie night at home. We just got done watching one actually lol.
A movie night is definitely an easy way to bond with the kids. Shoot, my spouse and I do it alone just to bond as well!
What a great way to utilize a family movie night. I love every moment I can get with the entire family together.
We try to do a family movie night every month. Not only do the kids love being able to stay up late but it’s a great bonding moment as you mentioned above.
We do family movie nights every single week once a week. The kids love it and so do we. It’s great for family bonding and just hanging out together!
I love spending quality time with my family and friends whether its a movie night or a small vacation. My reasons of spending time are similar to yours.
A family movie night sounds like a great idea! I love spending time with family, especially while sharing these fun moments. Thanks for the idea!