It\u2019s almost break time for families whose children and young adults will be spending extra days at home. That marks changes in our daily routines: more meals to prepare, more laundry, and more people with more projects strewn around. More importantly it marks more opportunities to spend quality family time together.<\/p>\n
So, here are a few suggestions to make the time together easier. Institute or reinstate or remind everyone of the 6 R\u2019s: responsibility, respect, rest\/relaxation, and recreation\/renewal.<\/p>\n
During our hectic days of being a family it\u2019s a good idea to reconsider how our family divides up responsibilities<\/strong>. When everyone shares in family chores it lightens the load allowing more time for everyone to enjoy rest\/relaxation<\/strong>, and recreation\/renewal<\/strong>. Wit tasks shared perhaps we can sneak in a family night of games, cookie baking or time together working on special holiday events or gift-making. We might take a family hike, share in decorating our home for the season, or take time to enjoy the community\u2019s holiday decorations. Sharing responsibilities also shows respect<\/strong> for our home and family; we\u2019ll have time to reconnect and enjoy what each person adds to our family.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s almost break time for families whose children and young adults will be spending extra days at home. That marks changes in our daily routines: more meals to prepare, more laundry, and more people with more projects strewn around. More importantly it marks more opportunities to spend quality family time together. So, here are a\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,32,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engaging-students","category-general-thoughts","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}