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If you ever want to make something permanent, take the time to write it down. Somehow the issue you are writing about seems to have more gravity when you do. When you hit your mid 40's you begin to think about different things that you did when you were in your twenties and thirties (Not to mention your teens!). I recently begin to wonder how I would be remembered. How would my kids think about me and talk about me after I was gone? Would the things I believe in and stood for be passed on to them? With that in mind, I will spend the next several days trying to share with you my thoughts on the life lessons I have tried to teach my kids. One of the strangest things I have noticed over the past several years is that life is much more serious than in the past. It seems as if people are just tenser. It's almost like people have just forgotten how to be just a bit goofy and silly. We are all very busy, but we need to take time every day just to have fun. A few nights ago I saw my kids goofing around in the living room. There was a big stack of dishes to wash, but they could wait. This was any opportunity to have some great fun. I threw the dish towel aside and run into the living room with my hands waving frantically over my head and screaming my own rendition of a war cry. Suddenly my kids were screaming in delight as I pounced on the group and the tickle wars began. Within minutes my wife and oldest son were bounding down the stairs and jumping into the fray. For the next twenty minutes or so it was pure chaos in my house, and I could not have been any happier. Later that night I had the chance to reflect on what had happened and I realized that one of the greatest gifts we can give our children is the ability have spontaneous fun. As parent we are terrific at teaching our kids how to live responsibly, how to get all of their work done but we need to spend just as much time teaching them how not to get their work done, how to just have fun. After all, isn't that what being a kid is all about?
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Catherine Ann is a mother of five and an expert at making Family Fun. Sign up for her newsletter and get her Time Management Guide. As an added bonus you will also get her No charge e-course on "Finding Your Hidden Sources of Money".
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