NO IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH OUT THE GADGET?

79 IDEAS FOR REAL LIVING TOGETHER:

1. gardening
2. sports
3. work-chores
4. library
5. crafts
6. county fair
7. Boy Scouts
8. 4-H
9. hikes
10. fishing
11. cooking
12. modeling
13. scrap booking
14. antique store exploring
15. job
16. paint by number
17. burn brush
18. pets
19. planting trees
20. mowing lawns
21. community youth center
22. museums
23. garage sales
24. farmers markets
25. canning
26. table tennis
27. talk with Grandparents
28. call siblings on the phone
29. kayaking
30. snorkling
31. sailing
32. auctions
33. archery
34. exploring
35. service
36. church
37. make Christmas presents
38. care packages
39. sit by the fire
40. board games
41. biking
42. Family Home Evening
43. Family Council
44. do nothing and sit on couch together
45. go to bed early
46. write poetry
47. back rubs/foot massages
48. read scriptures together
49. temple
50. lively discussions on politics
51. visit cemetery
52. take apart broken household appliances
53. smash old piano with sledge hammer
54. chalk drawings on sidewalk
55. write your own book and illustrate it
56. research favorite topic
57. challenge yourself
58. volunteer in a hospital
59. visit the elderly neighbors
60. offer to babysit little children
61. have a back yard fair
62. build a fort
63. play in the mud
64. dam up a creek
65. create a compose pile
66. build a trout stream
67. write a letter
68. shooting
69. cross stitch
70. quilting
71. sewing
72. painting
73. genealogy
74. birding
75. weather observing
76. ant collecting
77. can collecting
78. wood working
79. canoeing

A wise friend once told me: Never do anything for your children that they can do for themselves. Yea, it may not be done perfectly but remember! They must be given opportunities to learn.

We are all a "work in progress".