Slow family living : 75 simple ways to slow down, connect, and create more joy
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A guide to rediscovering the meaning and contentment of day-to-day family life offers seventy-five ideas for connecting with family that make the most of shared time and strive to strengthen family relationships. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Carrie Contey
- Is this working for us?
- Pause
- Start the day with four deep, slow breaths
- Connect the dots
- See me, feel me, touch me : increasing your connection
- Practicing family life
- Appreciate
- Picture this
- Dropping love bombs
- Listen with your heart open
- The family that learns together
- Slow sports
- Taking slow where you can get it
- Bedtime bliss
- High point-low point
- The blitz : a family tidy up
- Spend nothing day
- One on one
- Deciding to be done
- Treating family time like a good book
- Syncing your calendars (the old-fashioned way)
- Go outside and play
- Camp out at home
- Slow summer camp
- Community service, family style
- Magnetic attraction : a slow walk with a purpose
- Do-over
- Happy you day!
- Make 'em laugh
- Say good-bye like you mean it
- Ponder invitations (and practice saying no!)
- Playing hooky, family style
- Family homework
- Keeping a family journal
- Spacious transitions
- Just ten extra minutes
- This i believe
- Throw the rules out the window
- Timed talking
- What do you need?
- Fantasy island
- Sigh. Forgive. Let go. Move on
- Make stuff together
- Dinner co-op
- The family that cooks together
- How low can your pantry go?
- Siblings for life
- Date night
- The half-full weekend
- A night in the park
- Take a mental picture
- Screen free
- Take five
- Slow holidays
- Out with the old (before you ring in the new)
- Going from fast to slow
- How did we get here?
- Partner up
- Reflect and project
- Beneath every behavior is a need
- The family billboard
- Real cooperation
- Dance party rock band
- Spontaneous game night
- The family lemonade stand
- The love pop-in
- Freaky friday
- Dear (drop everything and read) time
- Happy birthday to you
- Lazing about: don't beat 'em, join 'em!
- Don't sweep until the rice dries
- Capturing the ideal
- Road trip!
- May the circle be open
- Making big change
- Final note
- Acknowledgments.