Bradley Hospital Parenting Guide:
Healthful Leisure

Leisure: Different Things
to Different People

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Leisure is personal time during which you are free from obligations. This freedom from any "must do" activity results in a choice-a personal decision about how to spend your time.

Leisure reinforces emotional wellbeing. The idea is to fill your free time doing something you like-not only recreation, but activities such as reading, spending time with friends, writing letters, playing a musical instrument or simply spending time alone.

The options are limitless. What all leisure choices have in common is an opportunity to enhance the value of being a human being through personal choice and decision making.

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