9 family night without the computer and shopping Bashny.Net

In the past decade our everyday life has firmly entered the phrase "shopping centre" – rather strange, for purchase, in essence, have nothing to do with entertainment. However, in most of these centres are really different ways to spend time with her husband and children: to go to the movies, drink coffee, ride son on electric typewriters, to become acquainted with novelties and to buy something useful for the house and unnecessary – "for the soul."


We used that for any joint joy need the money. To meet a friend to go to a sushi bar with my mom to the market on Saturday, in the Park on rides. The whole family – again, somewhere to go, paying for the service because "well, what to do at home?". Joint evening in the small apartments often become separated‑computer time: who cartoons, who news, who unfinished work. In this situation the unpaid forgetfulness, the Internet becomes a global catastrophe.

Turn off the laptop. Hide away wallet. To put a notebook in the kitchen Cabinet and lock it there. And try to cope with the surging feeling of emptiness: what now? To have a quiet dinner. But if you have time, try to find the office and home, remembering that simple everyday pleasure are not virtual and do not require trips to the store.
 


1. Granny's chest

You don't have a grandmother's chest? Don't believe it. He's just called differently and may be quite different looks. I have it's just a box of scraps, old buttons and preserved in moving things from my childhood like Misha and clippings from the magazine "Worker". These clippings, most of the patches can, incidentally, make anything you like – magazines-80s in General abounded with advice like "if the terms of ball roll, and you want a holiday...". The contents of the "box" can translate into something unusual and interesting brooches of multicolored beads to the felt butterflies on the curtains. The head of the family will also have something to do: to climb on a stool or a stepladder and attach to the ceiling or the eaves of your children combines art – useful and pleasant physical labor.

2. My dad's attic

Now get close to dad... Well, who else can store in the attic (in the attic, on the balcony) unpaired skates in 1976 with the idea that "once you pick up a pair"? Such deposits are so extensive that bring them in order not to pull the "family night", and "family week." No, we're not going to totally destroy the space inventory of our neighbors. But the romance, which "is good only mount fix", it should really be fixed. And quite decent doll, which for a long time the daughter has finally screwed his head, tie a bow and give it to the neighbors. And life will be a little more ordered, and the soul will fall down some invisible but tangible goods.

3. Who is who

Once at the site, diverting five year old daughter from the TV, I began to show a family photo album. And realized that can not clearly comment on most of the photos of the parents, not to mention other relatives: "And this is your grandfather somewhere," "And he's... with someone else". Had to arrange a home survey, in which I learned a lot about the life of his family and distant relatives. The next evening I was going through pictures and signed everything that I was able to learn.


Well, mom, which traditionally complains of meaningless evenings, after my departure a couple of weeks to finish the job: he posted the photos in the albums, bought the case a long time ago.
Now, by showing them to someone, I can say something like: "And this is uncle Alex, grandma's cousin. My mom loved it as a child, he was pushing her on the shoulders. He has two sons in this city." By the way, some of those who still live, in the process of analysis of the photos and you can call. And who knows, maybe the conventional "uncle Alex" was the last time you saw a kid will be something interesting and roads and your almost grown-up heart?..

4. "Letter to posterity"

This family night, at first glance, resembles the preceding, but is a separate, different. Now we don't store the history, and making it themselves – five, ten, twenty years. "Letter to posterity" loved to lay in the days of socialist anniversaries: in the center of my hometown there is even the eponymous stone obelisk with imbedded in his capsule. This, of course, too pathetic and ideological... But why not make a different, family letter and it is better to prepare a mysterious box – specific descendant? For example, the first grandchild born by your children, or lying in the cradle daughter to adulthood, putting back her baptismal dress, ruby ring, great-grandmother and a touching message from the mother and father.

Such gifts are very expensive, even if it was chosen purely for practical reasons. For example, my grandmother in my childhood secretly preparing me a dowry, and they married after her death, I got a big hand-quilted quilt, sewing machine and a savings account for as a lot of times denominated rubles. Nothing from this I do not use, but her love warms me through the years. It is a pity that this didn't come with her to live the words – no cards, no letters...

5. The Palace of the king

Many of us loved as a child making houses in the sand and snow hills, on tree and in the closet, out of cardboard and plasticine... Choose what you like, and create with the child a real Palace. The bedroom can be done under dad's computer Desk (we agreed not to work!), there of arranging cushions bed Princess canopy bed. And a wardrobe in the hallway let him be a prison for the disobedient. The king can guessing riddles – "who will guess that the head from the shoulders" – or to send courtiers into pillow fights. And you can be just "interior designer" and to collect from designers of all stripes and everyday items in the house for little men – with ladders, garages and walkways.

6. Night walk

The easiest and also relieves fatigue option, and perhaps the most "binding".


The person does not feel the full extent of the city in which he lives, if even when it does not happen alone with him, does not see it completely empty, not filled with people, cars, breathing their own breath. Somewhere it is just before dawn, somewhere before midnight. Show this city the children go to a deserted Park, stay in the whirling snowflakes under the lamps. Go with her husband on the street, who remembers you during the evening rendezvous: when here as a belated passer-by hurry home, and he squeezed your such a hot hand in his. And no matter what tomorrow morning at work after such a walk you will be more rested than if I went to bed an hour earlier, after spending time in front of the TV and at the plate.

7. "Crocodile"

In the eyes of those we played with friends from school and childhood to the last degree, and this is probably the only gaming activity, which shall take all three generations of my family. Its essence is simple: with the help of gestures and facial expressions to show the word that must guess a present. It turns out associative, and funny. The game develops imagination, thinking and, importantly, the ability to understand what he wants to Express to the other person. In the family that sometimes is not enough.

There is a simple half-forgotten games that you can play for a joint household chores. For example, my daughter was placing her clothes in the closet or taking away toys, practice "Yes and no". Each in turn thinks of a word, the other tries to guess it with leading questions implying a consent or denial. It teaches children to analyze, categorize items, and adults – exercise for the mind.

8. Culinary "masterpiece"

No, it's not "back to shopping". The point is just to fix the current state of the refrigerator and try to cook something enticing that is. Potatoes and a jar of corn? So, do "Sunny glade" Golden hills‑slices and bright yellow flowers. Sour cream, orange and packet of vanillin? Whisk the cream and spread it in curly baskets of peel. Fortunately, the yard still not hungry early 90-ies, but our mom managed to feed and please us in a much more meager conditions.
Remember on my sixth birthday, in the restructuring, only dessert was... apples compote. Grandma put them in a glass of wine, tucked a yellow farm cream and told me that it is a French dish – "blancmange". It taste as wonderful atmosphere among loved ones and the twilight, when six household paraffin candles, I remember to this day. Let our children will remember simple little cookies that they are, sticking his tongue out from the effort, cut out with shaped cookie cutter, or cabbage salad "Watch" and the dial-plate of carrots for tired dads.

Not tired dad can also take part in the process (ours, for example, may be in the mood to install cauldron and preparing to engage in the only known dishes – pilaf). And if someone will forget about the next series of the movie or evening monitoring your favorite site, the experiment was a success.

9. "Long live the scented soap..."

If out of ideas and just want to relax, you can arrange the whole family's bath day. Or rather evening, but it was slow, sweet, with a bubble bath (if the bath itself is not) and a long Cup of tea in a Terry Bathrobe.


It's fun, despite the fact that it is always at hand, a lack of time can afford often. Let the younger members of the family have a good soak, will launch "big water" all ships and will catch all toy fish (but would not flood the neighbors!).
You can turn on an extra heater to the apartment was almost hot, lay a squeaky clean linen, spread through the rooms a pleasant smell. And finally, when they all enjoy the water treatment, learn to make each other massages and chatting about everything. Furnished with this features. Also interesting: the Family, where seven children — not a hindrance, and the main motivator for success family values – do they make sense

Don't forget about table games, not have to buy something new and expensive, you can get to the mezzanine (or wherever you keep family rarity) bingo or monopoly, and can be themselves together with children to draw on the sheet of paper RPG with stations and come up with that will have to do the one whose chip gets to a specific station. Here's a ready family game‑tradition, hand made together with kids, what could be better? published

Author: Elena Sapaev

Source: montessoriblog.livejournal.com/78739.html