Sitting around the television watching a movie together may not sound like there’s much bonding happening. When a family decides to have a family movie night together they’re often thinking about how much they will love or hate the film, whether they have enough popcorn and if everyone will stay awake for the duration of the film. That last thing on everyone’s mind is probably the reasons you should watch movies as a family. Today I’m sharing my top 4 reasons to watch movies as a family to help inspire you to host a family movie night soon.
Quality Family Time
When you find yourself quickly welcomed into the world of raising teenagers, it’s important to find unique ways to bond. A teenager isn’t very forthcoming with their ability to ask for family time, so you must be proactive in your ways. Watching movies as a family when raising a teenager will allow some quality family time together without any pressure on your teenager to engage.
Increases Conversations
When you watch movies as a family you have a common bond over a film. Whether you loved the movie or hated it, there’s still a conversation that happens. When the movie is finished, sure you may head to sleep but days later you’ll be discussing the events that transpired in that film. You’ll find that watching movies as a family increases conversations between everyone in the family.
Allows Relaxation
Everyone in the family has to deal with a busy week. Between work, school and household chores it’s no wonder many families are stressed out. Watching movies together as a family allows you a chance to decompress from a busy week. Whether you’re 5 or 99, our lives are pretty hectic and this family movie night will ensure you all have a moment to pause from the real world.
Creates a Bond
Lastly, when you opt to watch movies together as a family, you’ve opened the doors to more family bonding moments. Consider letting the kids choose the movie from time to time, which will surely help boost that bond that’s created during movie time. Seated together in the living room, watching a movie over popcorn is a wonderful way to create a bond with your whole family.
There are many reasons why you should opt to watch movies together as a family but these four are by far the best reasons. I hope that you are inspired to start watching movies with your kids soon, it’s a great way to increase conversations, build a stronger bond and detach from a busy lifestyle.
We like to do this! Sometimes it takes a bit for us to agree on a movie, but when we do, we gather. We recently saw The Lego Movie 2!
We try to do this at least once a week. Usually on Friday or Saturday night will pop something and just watch it. I think it’s a great way to stay close to the family.
It has been more difficult to get my teen’s attention, and then to ask him to put his phone down is even more difficult since he is 16. I try to get good movies for him as a hook to hang out with us!
tell him it will create a bigger bond between you guys it works trust me
These are some great reasons to catch a good film. My other half and I love watching a move it is one way we really relax together at home.
could not agree more with this- after a busy week our family enjoys a movie to watch to increase our bond and also talk about what we watch together. great reasons!
Doesn’t everyone watch movies as a family. Fix snacks and sit back and laugh and enjoy watching together.
I think having a family movie night is a great idea. I was an only child but we all watched tv together when I was growing up.
We move watching movies as a family when time permits. It’s such a great way to create memories.
We love doing this. I don’t let our kids have a tv in their rooms, I’d rather we all watched it together.
All five of us really enjoy family movie night. Ours usually include a lot of awesome snacks and fuzzy blankets.
I think it creates a commonality when you really may not have many with a teenager.
We often have family movie nights. We go all out.. popcorn, candy, pjs.. the whole shebang.
We used to have a movie night once a week as a family. It was a good time to reconnect.
My 30-year-old daughter talks about our movie nights still. That warms my heart! She remembers specific movies that we watched, too!
We used to watch movies as a family all the time when I was growing up! Friday nights were for pizza delivery and movies, those were the good old days!
I enjoy a lot of watching movies as a family! We have a lot a lot of fun all together!
I agree with all these reasons. I like watching movie with my family and talk about it a lot of times after.
We have a theater room in our basement and this is one of our favorite things to do. We make it a huge evening! It is so much fun to make all the treats and watch a movie together!
We have a movie night every Friday night. It’s something the whole family looks forward to.
I totally agree. I love watching movies with my family for that special time.