Family Fun Night (FFN) provides a way to show unconditional love and acceptance for children, thereby building self-esteem of children based on Existence. It doesn't have to be expensive. It should ideally not be used as withdrawal of privileges during discipline of children. It can be weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
Here are some fantastic ideas of my own and those I have gathered from the different books I read:
- Sleep in the bathroom
- Sleep in tent together
- Sleep in walk-in wardrobe together
- Build a fort with sheets, tables and chairs and sleep in it together overnight
- Have a meal under a table
- Bake, make pancakes, dried apple chips, etc. together
- Drink hot chocolate under cozy candle lights
- Make ice-cream together
- Make Chinese dumplings together
- Make popcorn together
- Rent videos and pop popcorn
- Visit to the pizza or sushi bar
- Visit your favorite restaurant
- Go out for ice-cream
- Play cards or board game
- Jump on the backyard trampoline
- Play a game of volley ball in the backyard
- Play tennis, pingpong, basketball, etc.
- Hike up a nearby mountain, build a fire, roast marshmallows
- Make bon-fire and roast snorbrød
- Go canoeing
- Visit museum – art museum, science museum, dinosaur museum
- Visit a National Park or nature playground
- Swimming
- Horse-ridding
- Go to a movie
- Go to the water park
- Go to the driving range and let everyone hit a bucket of golf balls, finish with a root beer float at home.Go bowling
- Play mini-golf at a recreation center
- In summer, go swimming in the lake and kayaking, pluck strawberries.
- In winter, go sledding, have snow fight, build snowman together, go ice-skating on the lake, drink hot chocolate.
- Write and illustrate a book
- Have a do absolutely do nothing day and let the children set the agenda and pick whatever they want to do.
- Or surprise the children that they do not know what to expect
- Visit where Mom and Dad used to lived together
- Visit where Mom and Dad used to date together
- Watch inspiring basketball movie with your son, if he is into basketball
References:
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families by Stephen Covey
- http://www.choresandchecklists.com/family-fun.html
- http://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/842477/50-family-fun-night-ideas-for-families
- http://www.imom.com/mom-life/family-fun/20-ideas-for-a-family-fun-night/
- http://spoonful.com/family-fun/20-fun-family-games-night-ideas#carousel-id=photo-carousel&carousel-item=2
- http://www.choresandchecklists.com/family-fun.html
- http://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/842477/50-family-fun-night-ideas-for-families
- http://www.imom.com/mom-life/family-fun/20-ideas-for-a-family-fun-night/
- http://spoonful.com/family-fun/20-fun-family-games-night-ideas#carousel-id=photo-carousel&carousel-item=2
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