Becoming a better parent, and children of God

Well, as I watched General Conference yesterday I felt like the main theme for me was to become a better parent. I need to spend more quality time with my child. So aside from playing toys with him and taking him to the park, what more can you do? I know I need to do more things centered around the gospel, but what can you do with a 1-year-old? Any suggestions from you parents that have passed this 1-year-old stage? I guess all I can really do now is just pay some attention to them instead of just doing my own thing all the time. Which, it doesn't seem like I get to do very often anyway.

But, past that, I took a few cute pictures of Matthew as we went to the park the other day. It was a beautiful day and I thought he needed to go play somewhere other than our sidewalk in front of our house. When we first got there, there were hardly any kids there, but as we started playing, tons of them showed up. It was interesting to watch Matthew just sit in the swing and observe the other kids playing. I wonder what he thinks and how he sees them. I think as we grow up we somehow get judgemental of people and that doesn't need to be. I don't know where we learn it from, it just happens. But it is very interesting that during both of my pregnancies I have really just stopped to look at people and think to myself, "These are children of God too." With my pregnancy with Matthew I noticed it most when I went to the demolition derby. I was sitting there, and if you have never gone, there are a ton of people that go to this and a lot of them that drink beer at it too. But besides that, I was sitting there and looked at all of the hundreds of people and thought, "These are all God's children, wouldn't it be great if we all just knew each other, loved each other, and were able to spend eternity with each other?" Now with this pregnancy I was able to think the same thing as I spent a week in jam packed New York City. They are ALL Heavenly Father's children.

As I think about the future and the eternities, I just hope upon all hope that we will be able to raise our children in a way that we will have them with us forever! And if Heavenly Father has all of these billions and billions of people that are His children, what do you think he wants? Makes me think that I need to do better at first of all not being judgemental of people (or myself, which is another topic that ties in, but doesn't work in this case), and second of all doing missionary work. So, in all of that deep thought, do little children really see that we are all really brothers and sisters? How can we keep that thought in their mind? I guess it goes along with trying to be a better parent.

Any thoughts and/or suggestions? Hopefully any of this muddled mess makes any sense.