500 Things to Do With Your Children Before They Grow Up

by Linda Williams Aber, Corey McKenzie Aber

500 Things to Do With Your Children Before They Grow Up will take your family to places you ve never been and inspire you to do things you ve only dreamed about. With 500 ideas for things to do with your children, you ll be creating treasured memories and building relationships that become the foundation for happy, healthy children and a stable family.


Children grow up so fast that it s important to make the most of every moment. While most parents know about the things they have to do with their children before they grow up feed them, bathe them, clothe them there is more to parenting than these daily necessities. The ideas in this book will help you create warm childhood memories, foster your children s sense of wonder, and help them to explore and discover the world around them.


Some of the ideas in 500 Things to Do With Your Children Before They Grow Up are as simple as playing in the mud or having a picnic inside on a rainy day. Other ideas include taking children to wondrous sights in your town or even another country. You ll also find guidelines for building confidence, making friends, behaving properly in social situations, and more.


Don t waste a single second with your children. Try these and other ideas from 500 Things to Do With Your Children Before They Grow


Bake cookies together
Gaze up at the starry night
Learn how to ski or snowboard
Adopt an animal
Visit a reptile park
Plant a tree
Practice the perfect handshake
Visit a wild west town
Set up an obstacle course
Read the newspaper together
Get fit at your own family Olympics

320 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published February 11, 2010

Reviews

[J · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book helped me make so many fun memories with my son. Through most of his life I was a single mom, so I wanted to make the best of it. Because of this book, we had lots of fun experiences like making butter from heavy cream or driving up a gravity hill (where gravity pulls you up the hill). We also went to see one of the very last shuttle launches because of this book. There are loads of other activities and adventures -- I just mentioned the tip of the iceberg. I highly recommend this book!

[Chrissy · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars

[Amber · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am so super excited about this book. It has some fantastic ideas that we are going to do in our family. I am motivated and personally excited about so many things in this book. Highly recommend it!