We've started a new family tradition: vacation every Sunday. We tend to be workaholic parents: running errands, doing chores around the house, volunteer work, pushing the kids on their schoolwork. Too often, we've looked back on a weekend and asked ourselves, "What did we do as a family besides work?"
For the last few weekends, we've had a rule: short of an unexpected emergency, there won't be any chores after 3pm Sunday. Hopefully, on any given weekend this won't be the ONLY time the whole family takes it easy. But we want it to be a relaxing time that everyone can count on and look forward to every weekend.
We're not making this complicated and rigid. We might go out and have fun, but we might stay home and do nothing. We might do things as a family or we might each do our own thing. The only rule is that we're all doing things we enjoy or things that nurture our souls instead of doing chores. We want the kids to remember Sunday evenings as a time every week when their workaholic parents went cold turkey.
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