Creative Activities To Do With Your Children:

• Cook and eat a meal together.
• Go for walks together.
• Plant a garden together
• Model how to express feelings
• Meet one of your child's friends who you don't already know.
• Meet your child's teacher. Visit your child's school or classroom.
• If your children are not living with you, commit yourself to a phone call or lunch date.
• Visit a museum, the zoo, a playground.
• Explore and celebrate your family's culture with your children. Share stories about your ancestors, look-up your genealogy, and/or create a family tree.
• Encourage your children to learn more about their culture and the cultures of others. Read stories about different cultures and invite ethnic and international friends to your home.
• Put an encouraging note in the textbook of your child's "worst" subject.
• Teach your older children to check and add oil to the car.
• Teach your children how to resolve conflicts productively and model that behavior.
• Take your children to the library and give them time to browse and check out some books. Read together.
• Discuss with your children some goals for the school year - theirs and yours.
• Encourage your children to join various clubs and organizations.
• Ask your children what they wants to be when they grow up and give them opportunities to learn more about their interest.
• Listen to your children's favorite music. Ask them what they like about it.
• Read a newspaper article to your child and ask what he/she thinks about it.
• Discuss an area in which you and your child disagree - and listen!
• Ask your child what is the one thing you do that he/she would like to learn, and then teach it.
• Ask your children what they would like to do and then make it happen!
• Laugh together.