{"id":5375,"date":"2021-01-14T07:55:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T13:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2021-01-14T07:55:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T13:55:45","slug":"how-to-plan-the-perfect-family-night-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/how-to-plan-the-perfect-family-night-in\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Plan The Perfect Family Night In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Family nights are one of the best ways to help you curb the lockdown boredom<\/a>. But anyone who has kids understands that getting everyone together to enjoy a Friday night together is easier said than done. This is why you need to know how to plan a family night that will go down in history as the best ever, so here are four ways to do that.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Take It In Turns to Choose <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one likes or wants to be the family night dictator that chooses what everybody does every week. This is a straightforward way to make your family dread<\/em> the coming Friday before it has even begun. Instead, you can let everyone take it in turns to choose what they want to do. They might decide to watch a movie, play video games, or get everyone around the dinner table for a board game night. Some kids might even prefer baking<\/a> to anything else, which gives you something for dessert once you\u2019ve finished tour pizza. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Offer Some Variety <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Variety is the spice of life, and this is no more crucial than when you\u2019re stuck inside with nothing to do. If your kids aren’t old enough to make decisions (or you flat-out don\u2019t trust them to pick something sensible), you can create an illusion of choice by offering a variety of things to do. For older kids, you might want to introduce them to tabletop RPGs, and if so, you should try SkullSplitter Dice<\/a> <\/strong>to make them even more interested in the game. You never know, this could be the beginning of an exciting Dungeons & Dragons campaign for the whole family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t Force It <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes, everyone might feel too exhausted to do things, or they might have other stuff to do such as schoolwork or ready-made plans with their friends. If so, you mustn\u2019t force everyone into the family night no matter how much you want to do it. No one will be in the mood and this can make them wary of other nights in the future. So, if people don\u2019t seem into it, don\u2019t be afraid to take a week off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tidy Up Together <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordering pizza, baking cakes, and munching on snacks all night is all well and good, but it isn\u2019t any fun for the person who needs to clean and tidy up after everyone. As everyone has been involved in the family night, you should make sure that everyone pulls their weight and cleans up after themselves<\/a>. Assign jobs to each other such as wiping down the surfaces or vacuuming crumbs from the sofa or floor before going to bed. Not only is this fair, but it also means you can wake up to a clean, tidy house tomorrow morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family Fun <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These family nights are a fantastic way to create memories and bond with each other. It gives the kids a chance to feel like they\u2019re more adult, staying up later than usual, and it allows the parents to treat their kids like buddies, rather than children. Not every night will be a hit, of course, but with proper planning, you can expect it to be a success more often than not.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This post is a collaborative effort by St. Louis Dad.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Family nights are one of the best ways to help you curb the lockdown boredom. But anyone who has kids understands that getting everyone together to enjoy a Friday night together is easier said than done. This is why you need to know how to plan a family night that will go down in history […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"How to Plan The Perfect Family Night In #dadbloggers","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,276,7],"tags":[12,147,19],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-family","category-inside","tag-blog-2","tag-family","tag-inside-fun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JMKA-1oH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5377,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions\/5377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}