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Free and Frugal Board Games

The Internet is full of great of ideas for free and frugal board games. Some of these games can be played with only a few coins in your pocket. Others require the use of simple game boards and pieces that you already have around your home, such as chess or checkers. Still others can be downloaded in their entirety as pdf files and then printed. So when the rainy days strike, or when you are just looking for something to do as a family that doesn’t require spending money or television, consider trying a free board game. You can do … Continue reading →

Some Twists on Family Movie Night

Maybe you already set aside an evening regularly to watch movies as a family. This can be a fun way to spend some extra time together. You can take turns selecting movies or have a movie marathon, allowing each family member to select a favorite. This time of year it might be fun to sit down together and watch classic holiday specials. You can rent movies, go pay per view, view movies you already have copies of, or choose from those available in your TV listings. You can make special treats or snacks or have “party food” instead of a … Continue reading →

Single Parenting – Keeping the Family Together

Becoming a single parent family means changes, some easy and some more challenging. Now that there is just one parent in the household, you want to do everything possible to keep the family close and tight. You want to make sure your children feel comfortable talking to you about anything, that you know what is going on in their lives. Because a single parent home often comes with greater time management challenges, a little more work is required to keep the family together but you can. I remember when I went through my divorce. There were times when I thought … Continue reading →

Make It A Movie Night

Movie night can be a great time for a family to come together and have some good family fun. But sometimes what was supposed to be fun for all turns into more of a brawl. So follow these few simple steps to guarantee that your next family movie night is a roaring success. Set a time. Choose a date and make sure that everyone is aware that the night is set-aside for a family movie night. Then just like when you are going to the theatre set a time that your family movie is going to start. When the time … Continue reading →

Storytelling – The Lost Art

Storytelling is a lost art in our modern day society where we can flip on the boob tube and see just about anything we want. It wasn’t all that long ago that fears surfaced worrying about the Internet and electronic books were going to be one of the last nails in the coffin for the books themselves. For families looking to emphasize the time spent together, but wanting to avoid the enticing trap of just sharing the same space to stare at the television – storytelling might be a great option for your family to explore. Reading Together When my … Continue reading →

A Family Craft Night

Want to do something a little different when you get together as a family at night? Try family craft night. Your best bet is to schedule it on the day before you plan to do a big house cleaning because the last thing you want is glitter on your carpets (though a quick vaccum run when you are done and that’s cleaned up). As for doing crafts together, it’s a fun way to spend time with mom, dad and the little ones that make the kids feel special and the adults amused. What Do You Make? Well a lot depends … Continue reading →

Friday Family Night

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To follow up on my point about being home: because we had decided that we were going to be the primary caregivers of our children, with no reliance on a day care center and minimal reliance on family members, we had to manage our work schedules around each other. We tried very hard to make sure that one of us was with our oldest all the time, if not both of us. This did not always translate into having family dinners together. This past academic year was particularly rough, because I’d be out all day Monday, then out most of … Continue reading →