Intentional Family Time Builds Relationships, Meaning, and ConnectionThe Uplift Kids Podcast • Season 2025, Episode 35
Oct 17, 2025 • 13m
One of the values that we have at Uplift Kids is helping families be intentional together, and this can look many, many different ways.
Without *some* intentional time, there can be drifting apart and a lack of meaning. So we wanted to talk about ways to be intentional.
One of the sources that we've pulled from in this episode is a book called The Intentional Family by a family therapist named William Doherty. Doherty talks about the need to balance rigidity and flexibility.
This approach — an approach that might be called a "wisdom approach" — is something that we explore and hold to consistently at Uplift Kids. It's a "both-and" approach rather than an "either-or" approach. And so the idea here is that we want to find a way to have a bit of structure and flexibility, meaning *some* time together.
In this episode we explore ways to make intentional time together.