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10 Ways To Spend Meaningful Time With Your Children
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1. Sitting together reading a book out loud (bedtime counts).

2. Hiking or camping with them.

3. Teaching them to play chess.

4. Teaching them to play dominos (and how to win and lose gracefully).

5. Building and flying a kite together.

6. Building and racing a Pinewood Derby together.

7. Making up a story one paragraph at a time (you start, he does paragraph 2, you do paragraph 3, etc.).

8. Teaching them basic cooking skills (8 years and older).

9. Teaching them how to critique a movie (teens).

10. Taking them to work with you at a homeless shelter.

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