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52 Family Time Ideas: Draw Closer to Your Kids as you Draw Your Kids Closer to God

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If you're a parent, do you long to create meaningful family time with your children?

Parent coach Timothy Smith offers you the structure and ideas to build lasting bonds of loyalty through creating fun memories together--in only 20 minutes a week!

Following up the success of his book, Connecting With Your Kids, Timothy Smith's latest work will help you "draw closer to your kids as your kids draw closer to God."

Each of the 52 chapters is a stand-alone session that includes a list of materials, warm-up, scripture reading, discussion, and family activity. He also includes helpful tips for adapting the session for various age groups.

The session ends with a wrap-up and prayer. There are plenty of activities to coincide with special occasions and holidays.

If you find yourself needing to lead a Sunday school class or youth group, this book will save you the time and stress of having to come up with lessons and activities from scratch--leaving you with more time to enjoy your own family!

--Christian Women Online Book Buzz

My kids love the activities and look forward to our "family time". I like how the verse is connected to the activity. It gives our family an opportunity to share how we feel about eachother and what God is doing in our family. I do however, have to take bit more time explaining how the activity relates to our family and God, but my kids are younger and their attention wanders after the activity is over. I think the content is perfect for elementary age kids!

Are you tired of trying to come up with money, in order to get away and spend time with your kids? In 52 Family Time Ideas, Smith helps parents stay home, save money, and cherish their time together. Each section includes a Biblical verse, questions to cause family members to speak to one another, and a game--from household items--to help family members laugh and play together. While the book is designed for children under 14 years, there's a small section to show how to convert each activity so teenagers will take part.

52 Family Time Ideas provides the structure and ideas for the meaningful and fun family time you want, helping you to discover and experience God's timeless principles for strong families.

In just twenty minutes each week you will discover treasures right in your own family. You will also be building lasting memories for you and your children.

We had loads of fun with this book, making the web was hilarious as we got ourselves all wrapped up in love and laughter. The bible verses that one shares with the children are thought provoking and inspirational, and the children asked a lot of questions that we did our best to answer. I liked how each chapter was broke down by a warm up, a kind of question and answer period between family members. Then a bible reading is shared and discussed with each family member, there are questions for the younger kids as well as your teens, so that no one is left out. After the discussion, your lead to an activity time that takes the lessons you just learned in discussion and actively participate in the learning that they were trying to promote. As well, each activity has a quote for the day, which one is to reflect upon and use it to grow with.

The kids really liked the activities and there is a complete listing of all items required to participate, most are things you have around your house, like rolled socks, bowls, string, popcorn, some movies and you and your families participation. I would recommend this book for any Christian family looking for some rewarding fun, or those families that may have the right foundation and just need some guidance along the way. We enjoyed the book and look forward to participating with it some more in the future...the kids are looking forward to the popcorn and Incredibles movie night...LOL

Timothy Smith's books are excellent resources for parents and 52 Family Time Ideas is no exception. Wonderful ideas to bring your family together while having a blast. I highly recommend this book!