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Weekend Plans

Definition

Socializing as a family can check off several boxes, including getting your kids out of the house and off screens, seeing your friends, and your kids seeing their friends. (Lucky for you if you like the parents of your kids’ BFFs.) But all this box checking requires much CPE, so think it through before you offer to organize a picnic in the park for your BFFs and the twenty kids among them.

Conception

You have weekends with your family

Planning

  • Reviewing weekend schedule (working with “Calendar Keeper” cardholder to see what periods of time are open for plans)
  • Checking weather forecast
  • Asking family members for ideas
  • Coordinating with friends and family

Execution

  • Communicating the plan to your family
  • Executing the plan for the weekend

Minimum Standard of Care

No, twelve hours of screen time is not reasonable, and neither is being so overscheduled you want to scream. Like Goldilocks, do you have plans once the weekend comes that feel just right?