Summer Resources
For Younger Kids:
Free Time: Ideas to explore during individual downtime
Fun Time: Ideas to help your children plan activities and family time
Learn Time: Ideas to build a love of lifelong learning
Love Time: Ideas to build and demonstrate a heart of service
For Older Kids:
Talk Time: Ideas to discuss with your family
For The Family:
Team Time: Ideas to build family relationships, identity, and memories
The end of school tends to bring with it a wide range of parental responses, beginning with relief and celebration, reaching all the way to disorientation and panic. The anticipation of all those little eyes looking to you for entertainment and excitement, or longing for more screen time, is overwhelming and real. TIME....what will we do with the time?
This summer, Suzanne Phillips from The Informed Parent wants to help you by putting quick, practical, and purposeful ideas in your back pocket! Each week during June and July, you will receive ideas in six categories.
The Gift of Celebration
Parades, fireworks, parties, and gatherings have been planned far beyond the typical backyard barbecue. Red, white, and blue have been front and center in stores for months.
Scattered, Smothered, and Covered: Holding On While Letting Go
I only have two real memories tied to Waffle House…
The Heart to Serve
Service doesn't have to begin with a passport or a plane ticket. It often starts around the dinner table with a conversation.
The Love of Learning
When did learning become associated with a specific time, space, or place?
Family Movie Night
Create a Family Movie Night with our Top 50 Character Building Movies List!
