Things You'll Need:
- Child-approved Food
- Ball Game Tickets
- Museum Tickets
- Theater Tickets
- Baseball Score Books
- Theater tickets
-
Step 1
Turn off the computer and the television set.
-
Step 2
Spend the whole day doing whatever the kids want to do, whether it's visiting the zoo or the science museum, taking in a ball game, hiking through a nearby park or building a fort in the backyard.
-
Step 3
Let the children choose the menus for all the day's meals. (Yes, even if it's Spaghetti-O's, chocolate milkshakes and cherry pie for breakfast, lunch and dinner.) One day of imperfect nutrition won't hurt any of you.
-
Step 4
Read to your children and have them read to you.
-
Step 5
Talk to children about what they love to do most - paint, ride horses, play the piano - and resolve to help them do as much of it as they want.
-
Step 6
Take the kids to your local bookstore and let them choose any books they'd like (though you may have to draw the line somewhere if you're rearing a true bibliophile).








Comments
Blackbear said
on 1/6/2008 How sweet! I'm looking forward to this holiday!
Anonymous said
on 8/8/2006 In Japan, the children fly fish kites on this day. The kites are in the shape of a carp which represents strength and determination. We made our own carp kites last year and will do the same this year - it was so much fun. The kites are a sort of fish-shaped windsocks on a bamboo pole. Even the youngest children can enjoy gluing on their own scales cut from brightly colored wrapping paper.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 Take our children to any orphanage for children, spend some time with them, and interact with children who are less privileged.