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7 BE INSPRED, JANUARY 2014 SET NEW YEAR’S FAMILY RESOLUTIONS It doesn’t matter that it’s already January, you can still fix some family resolutions for 2014. Setting up the New Year’s resolutions for the running year would be a great thing to start the family fun activities. Although, we should have some personal goals and promises for every New Year, so why not for a family? In this fun activity, you have to sit together with all of your family members and pick some new goals for this year. Do you have something in your mind what to change in this year? Your behaviors, habits, goals; No idea? Well, you can read another article in this magazine-- 11 New Year’s Resolutions That Make You- ‘A New Me’! Hope, you will find something to change. If you don’t find ideas that suit you, you can yet have a family meeting to find some. However, the kids can take some initiatives- how they can improve in their academics, sports, etc. The parents can make a promise that they will sit at least once in a week with the kids to discuss about their academic progress and so on. CHECK OUT THESE FUN-FILLED FAMILY ACTIVITIES MAKE A BIRTH DAY CALENDAR Making a birthday calendar is a great fun idea for a family consists with more than two people. Say, if you have 5 members in your family, the birthday calendar will have 5 colorful self-designed pages. It’s something like pre-planning your birthday and jotting down in a piece of hard paper or drawing sheet. However, in this activity, every person of the family will have a hard paper to design their own birthday calendar-page with various colors they like but the date must be in big font. When everyone finishes designing their page, the pages then need to be merged as a calendar. Afterwards, hang the calendar in the drawing room. Wow! Looks cool, right?