"Take a 'vacation' from television for a week and see what
happens. Set out some long-forgotten table games, craft
materials, family photo albums and favorite story books where
they'll be easily spotted." Taken from "A Dad After God's Own
Heart", by Paul Lewis
Quality family time is so important to the well being of our
relationships within the family structure.
We use to have what our family called Friday Family Fun Night
where we would play games, go to the lake for a picnic, play
restaurant or whatever else one of us might want to do. Sometimes
we would let one of the children pick while other times Neil or I
would choose an activity. Now that we do farmers markets on
Saturdays year round, we don't get to do this any longer. Our
older children still talk about those fun times. Ethan happened
to mention it last evening while getting ready for market which
got me thinking... during the school year we try to do things on
Sundays, but don't do it as faithfully as we did FFFN. Summer
time is much easier simply because there is no school in the
morning. We will often do fun things like go to Greenfield Village
and The Henry Ford Museum on Mondays, go to the zoo or go out to
the lake... things aren't quite as busy on Monday as the weekends
which makes it much nicer in my opinion.
Although it doesn't always have to be an event... Time spent
together as a family doing the simplest activity like reading a
family story... sitting by a campfire staring at the stars...
playing "eye spy"... playing
scrabble or chess,or even putting puzzles together. These things will create the memories
that will last a life time. It will also help settle a positive
habit for our children for their families, Lord willing they have
one.
This week go for walk or a bike ride as a family... take a drive
up North... go get an ice cream cone and just talk... our children
in this day and age of technology need us as parents to guild the
way back to simpler times... enjoy each other.
Until next time,
Jean
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