How should parents make the most of the time that they have with their children?

Joel Beeke explains in this video that when he was once assaulted in Eastern Europe and expected to die. He had the thought enter his mind what he would've told his children if he had one more chance to talk with them. If he didn't do family worship with his family, he explained that he would've had many things that he could've discussed with his family.

However, because they regularly studied Scripture together, they were able to have many edifying conversations. After family worship, the discusses what they read. Parents can also make good use of the time around mealtimes. They can try to steer the conversation towards deeper meaningful spiritual matters. They can bring a discussion of Scripture to that conversation.

1 Corinthians 10:31 (NKJV) - "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."

When I was in an Eastern European country and got assaulted and expected to die and was bound and gagged and I was told my captors were by the captors themselves that they were the mafia, though later it proved that they weren't. But I expected to die. During those moments, I had the thought enter my mind, What would I say to my children if I had one more chance to speak to them? If I didn't have family worship, I probably would have thought of dozens of things. But because of family worship, I couldn't think of anything because the Bible talks about everything.

And so We talk after we read scripture, and we use the Family Worship Bible Guide, which is a tremendous help, because it gives you the main takeaways of every chapter. And then we ask the questions at the end of those questions, those statements, and we talk about it. And so that way we get to talk about everything in the Bible. So that's important. The other thing you can do is make good use of the time when the family's together.

Like say, suppertime, You're around the table. Instead of just chowing down the food and not thinking about what you're talking about, just having small talk, I mean, small talk is fine. But maybe it's good that at least a few points during that meal, the father or the mother ask their children question or say, let's talk about this and have something meaningful to discuss. And then to bring a word-based foundation to that discussion. You