Comments on: Inspiring Family Nights

By: Abbi

Abbi — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:34:34 +0000

We have family night on Thursday. Sometimes it gets rescheduled to another night but we are pretty faithful to have it every week. In the winter we often play games. We try to have one that everyone can play and then later my husband and I might play one by ourselves. We also will do things like play hide and go seek. The kids love playing this with Mom and Dad. Simon Says is another one that they enjoy. In the summer we usually do outside activities like Bike riding (we have a trailer for the littlest ones.), catch, dodgeball, etc. In our busy world I think a family night is a wonderful thing.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:57:57 +0000

Our family night is on Friday. We have a “camp-out” in our living room. We get all the sleeping bags and pads out and camp out on them right on the living room floor. We usually pop popcorn and read a book together. Or sometimes we listen to an audio tape by Vision Forum or watch a movie. Since I have to be very comfortable while camping out, my sons (ages 12 and 10) bring in the top mattress from my bed. My dh and I get to sleep on that. But it’s lots of fun and the children really look forward to this every week!!!And so do I!!!

By: Monica

Monica — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:08:38 +0000

Amy – Thanks for the link. I’ve been itching to get back into planning Family Nights lately. Once we get a bit more settled in with Samuel I hope to pick this back up! I loved your thoughts on the Power’s Out night idea – we’ll add this one to our list!

By: Ann at mommysecrets

Ann at mommysecrets — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:50:39 +0000

I love this collection – I can’t wait to read the ideas & the comments!

By: Sheila

Sheila — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:29:22 +0000

Every Tuesday night is our family night, this is actually something that my family did growing up. We haven’t gotten as creative with themes for our nights together since my kids are 7-5-3. What we do is plan a special dinner, sometimes when i plan ahead I let them pick out a favorite meal or a favorite dessert and then we let each of the girls pick out a game to play. We try not to do a movie time on our family night because our goal for the night is to be communicating and having fun together, although we do love times when we are able to all sit down and watch a movie together. We usually try and do a family devotion that night, whether we do that together before bed or during dinner. Our girls really look forward to family night and so do we!