Love in Action Day 10
It’s time to have some fun! For today, the rest of the Love in Action series, and hopefully beyond, you will focus on family fun.
Play and Laugh
Happy, healthy, loved children laugh. They laugh a lot. They laugh uninhibited and with joy.
And they play.
Your blessed privilege as the parent of these laughing, playing children is to laugh and play with them.
If you have babies and toddlers, this is easy. Sit on the floor with them and investigate toys, set up blocks, roll a ball, let them play with your hair, your hands, your face. Share their contagious laughter.
If you have older children or teenagers, play is a bit more involved. It may involve board games, train tracks, remote control cars, sports, even video games. It may involve word games, jokes, riddles, or cards. Whatever you play, it should involve laughter.
Need ideas?
Ask your children to teach you their favorite games. Return the favor and teach them your favorite games from when you were a child. Learn a new game together online or from a book. We like Hopscotch, Hangman, Hot Potato, & Ha Ha Ha.
Schedule a family game night, or set up an ongoing game of Chess or a perpetual game to play when in the car, such as counting cars or Shell’s Gas Stations. How about Padiddle? (Count cars with only one headlight; it only counts if you’re the first person to hit the roof and shout “PADIDDLE!”)
Stop whatever you are doing and play, or start spontaneous word games, knock knock jokes, or 20 Questions while working together in the kitchen.
It doesn’t matter what you play. Just play!
Don’t just play to check it off your parental to-do list. Play because you love to be together, to play together, to laugh together.
Play together and fill your home with laughter.