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BE INSPRED, JANUARY 2014
VOLUNTEER TOGETHER
Participating volunteer work taking along your family members, especially the kids is a great
thing to do. You can get registered with the society’s volunteer club or can do it yourself.
Volunteer works like helping elderly people, spending some hours in old homes, orphanage,
working in the neighbor’s big garden, bathing and feeding the neighbor’s dog, etc. You can
also do something else what your kids may love.
CLEAN YOUR HOUSE TOGETHER
You must clean your house regularly, maybe once or twice in a week. Sometimes you do it
alone, sometimes you get your spouse or someone else. What if your kids also share some
of your cleaning tasks when you weekly clean your house? It will be fun when your kids take
a water bucket and soap to wash the car they ride daily. They would also love to operate the
vacuum cleaner, lawn mowing, planting, etc. You just have to make sure that you clean your
house in the holiday so that your spouse and the kids can participate with you.
MY DAY, MY FRIENDS
In your family you can do this activity. It’s a kind of awesome thing that strengthens a family
bonding and understanding. In this activity, every member of the family invites their best
friends for dinner. Like- you have some best friends, you’ll invite them in a holiday dinner
party at your home. Next month or after a couple of months your spouse will invite his/her
friends, then your kids. Ask your children to call their friends first for a dinner before you.
Can you realize how great it will be to know, through this activity, your spouse’s, and kids’ best
friends and having some talks with them in the dinner table?
MAKE A FAMILY COOKBOOK
It’s a common scene in every family. You like
vegetables, your spouse don’t. Your kids want their
favorite foods to be cooked right now. What if you
have a family cookbook that contains everyone’s
favorite recipes? Sounds nice, right? Yeah, you can
make a family cookbook following which you can
prepare everyone’s favorite dishes in the holidays
or the day you dine together. Or you can maintain a
cookbook for the whole month’s meals.