subject: For All Single Parents - Seven Things You Can Do With Your Chidren Seven Days Before Christmas [print this page] For All Single Parents - Seven Things You Can Do With Your Chidren Seven Days Before Christmas
Christmas time should be a time for family fun and enjoyment. Let it be a time for you as a single parent and your children to draw even closer together as a family by engaging in activities that require planning, cooperation, and shared responsibilities. Here are seven things that you and your children can do seven days before Christmas. Feel free to choose the order in which these things are done.
1. Make the house or apartment beautiful. Let the children decorate their room(s) using extra family decorations and ribbons. If they wish, let them hang their empty Christmas stockings on their room doors. The eating table, the front door, and the top of the cabinet all deserve festive touches. Talk with the family about buying one new decoration each year. What would it be? Where would it go? If you have time, go get it this very night.
2. Take the children to the library and look at books about Christmas. Check some out to read together aloud at supper. Start reading a few pages each night.
3. Have everyone become a Christmas angel. Put everyone's name in a bowl on the supper table. Each draws a name and then do a good deed in secret for that person between now and Christmas Eve. Don't let anyone tell whose name they drew. Let everyone guess their angel. Also look in the newspaper and check out all the special activities for Christmas. Together choose a concert or special event that everyone would enjoy and put it on the calendar.
4. Choose a nostalgia night. Bring out all the scrapbooks, photo albums, slides, and movies. If grandparents are nearby, let them enjoy this backward look. Talk about Christmas when you were a child.
5. Select a quiet day. Talk about the meaning of Christmas, the coming of the Christ child, and his message of love. At night, bundle up in warm clothes, go out into the backyard or to a park and look at the stars. Talk about the Star of Bethlehem.
6. There is always a special Christmas movie playing at a nearby theater to go to. Or, get a Christmas DVD. There are some great movie classics available. Afterwards, make sundaes.
7. At supper, make a list of all the relatives, senior citizens, and friends who would enjoy a Christmas call. Let each child think of one or two things he or she could share on the phone. Then let them make those telephone calls and save the calling list for next year.
Allow this be a joyful and pleasant time of the year.
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