I know as a parent it feels sometimes like you are caught up. It's a rush that never ends

errands non-stop, but what if there is a way that you can inject some fun with your kids into those scenarios instead of being all stressed out?

I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werta who heads up our parenting department here at the ministry and we're going to hear now

from Julie lavender who has some really wonderful insights for how to create

meaningful moments with your kids even in simple ordinary days full of non-stop errands. Here she is now with

Jim Dayley. You mentioned running errands can be a opportunity to do something

unique with your kids. Now most people that

are going to the grocery store picking up dry cleaning, dropping off something

don't see it as a fun opportunity. So how do we adjust our thinking?

Well, I think that can be kind of hard,

but I think if we just can kind of add 10 minutes

to the day of the errand running,

then maybe we add an extra stop.

We get ice cream halfway through the

errands. You might be my favorite mother.

We love our ice cream treats. We love our sweet treats.

You know, halfway through you might we might have stopped at the park and

played for a little bit or if we even if you don't have time for that you know when we get in the

car we're thinking okay I got to go here first then I got to go

there and there if we can kind of put that aside maybe have our list over here but in the

car even play some imaginary games we we just used to love to do all kinds of imaginary things and it might be, we say, okay, we're

playing an imaginary game of hide and seek. You can hide anywhere in your Mima's house and we're going

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