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99 Ways to Entertain Your Family for Free! (99 Ways)
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Overview
So, at root, this is more about learning to enjoy better all of life than about being entertained more economically. Though the dollar savings are no small matter. Based on a conservative
average expenditure of $7.50 per person for a paid entertainment event, this book will save a family of four about $3,000 annually.
Publishers Description
99 Ways to Entertain Your Family for Free offers a variety of opportunities to both entertain and educate family members of all ages. The major categories of free activities include “Around Town”, “Just Imagine”, “With Nature”, “Rituals and Routines”, and “Holidays”.
Mack Thomas, father of five adult children, has written a score of children's books, including bestsellers The First Step Bible and What Would Jesus Do? A winner of three ECPA Gold Medallions book awards, he lives in Oregon.
Mack Thomas, father of five adult children, has written a score of children's books, including bestsellers The First Step Bible and What Would Jesus Do? A winner of three ECPA Gold Medallions book awards, he lives in Oregon.
Introduction
This book is really about more than getting the best deal on entertainment. Even if we could afford the most lavishly expensive diversions available, they're less valuable–and ultimately
less satisfying–than the kinds of entertainment promoted in this book. So not only will you be getting something here for free…you'll be getting the best for free.
In fact, the qualities, attitudes, mindsets, and skills that let us enjoy to the max any kind of entertainment are best learned in the kinds of activities you'll be guided through in this book.
So, at root, this is more about learning to enjoy better all of life than about being entertained more economically. Though the dollar savings are no small matter. Based on a conservative
average expenditure of $7.50 per person for a paid entertainment event, this book will save a family of four about $3,000 annually.
If You're Bored, You're Boring
The foundational concept here is probably this: truly satisfying entertainment comes from an active attitude and approach, not passive. It's about taking the lead to engage in what's happening all around us, knowing there'll always be something interesting and delightful about it.
In other words, you're only as bored as you choose to be.
As our five children were growing up, my wife and I tried to teach them that if a person is bored, it's because he himself is boring. It means he's self-focused (instead of looking outward with attentiveness and a readiness to interact). Who could be more boring than someone sitting there, demanding to be entertained? It's as if that person is chained in the prison of self.
So you may want to strike from your family's vocabulary the phrase “I'm bored.” Replace it with an attitude that affirms, “There's something enjoyable and interesting here, and I'm going
to find it.” Build that into your family…and you'll all be not only happier and more satisfied but also more free.
You'll also be more ready for life's realities that go beyond entertainment. Half a century ago, in a letter written to a mother, C. S. Lewis quoted eighteenth-century British author Samuel Johnson: “To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor.” One reason to seek such happiness, Lewis said, is “to
prepare for being happy in our own real home hereafter.” May this book help increase the kind of happiness in your family that indeed nudges all of you toward heave and its lasting
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Item Specifications...
Pages 112
Dimensions: Length: 7.2" Width: 5.04" Height: 0.32"
Weight: 0.15 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Jul 21, 2009
Publisher WaterBrook Press
ISBN 0307458369
EAN 9780307458360
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 | Great Ideas Dec 8, 2009 |
Many children have forgotten how to play. They are easily bored. They don't have creative ideas or an imagination. The current generation of young people spends most of their free time watching TV, playing video games or using a computer. Shut off the electricity or ask them to spend the summer in a campground and they can't function. They don't know how to have good, old fashioned fun.
Mack Thomas has created the perfect solution in his book, "99 Ways to Entertain your Family for Free!" I was surprised and delighted to see Bible verses and a Christian perspective. It is divided into 7 chapters:
1. Indoors
2. Outdoors
3. Around Town
4. Just Imagine
5. Out in Nature
6. Rituals and Routines
7. Holidays
In each section you will find a variety of creative ideas for your family to enjoy together. Some ideas include holiday readings for Thanksgiving, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lincoln's birthday and more. I also loved his suggested read -aloud list based on the ages of children. His description of keeping a family journal of memories was wonderful. His outdoor game descriptions brought back nostalgic memories of my own childhood when we would stay outside in our yard, with the neighborhood kids, and play games like: Red Rover, Freeze Tag, Hide and Seek and Mother-May- I. We also spent hours in the woods with rakes, creating outdoor forts and homes. By the time we all went inside we were exhausted and ready for a good supper and quiet time with family. I appreciated Mack's descriptions and instructions on exactly how to play many of the games.
This is an excellent book and much needed in our day. The next time your child says, "I'm Bored," pull this book off the shelf and teach them how we used to play in the old days.
Mack Thomas is the father of five grown children and has written several children's books. I love the quote he had in the introduction, which really sums the book up for me: "To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor." - Samuel Johnson.
You can find more books in this series, including "99 Ways to Increase your Income;" and "99 Ways to Stretch your Home Budget."
Note: I received a complimentary copy of this book from Waterbrook Press, for the purpose of sharing my opinion. | | | | Worlds of Fun Aug 19, 2009 |
| This book was full of surprises. Have you ever played Freeze Tag? How about Red Rover? Or Annie Over? I used to play them and they're a lot of fun, but I didn't think anyone today remembered them. What about board games? Do you plan family nights to play games together? Add a bowl of popcorn, and you have a very inexpensive night of fun. There's no better way to enjoy each other as a family, than to indulge in a rousing game of Scrabble. And there is even a list of books to read. Seven pages of them! So turn off the television, unplug the video games and get the family together for some quality time. This is a really neat little book and your family will love it. I guarantee it. | | | | Entertainment does not have to cost a lot... Aug 9, 2009 |
Let's face it kids are expensive! Have you tried taking 4 children out to eat? Have you looked at the prices of amusement parks? There are many things you can do with your children that are free. Mack Thomas offers suggestions for entertaining on less than a shoe string.
Thomas begins by suggesting ideas for time at home with your children. Most kids enjoy board games, playing cards, playing dress up, and a variety of other suggestions. His outdoor suggestions are sure to please with Olympics, games with a ball, and bicycles. Kids love picnics, walks, sightseeing and scavenger hunts. Some of my favorite memories are watching clouds and deciding their shape. Let your imagination go wild.
My favorite suggestion is one on one time such as reading to your children. Parents will cherish the suggestions in 99 Ways to Entertain Your Family For Free and children will cherish the time with their families.
| | | | As Reviewed on CBN.com Aug 7, 2009 |
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