How important is it to make family memories?
Thanks to WA I have a all new outlook on life and how friends can become family on here. This has been the best experience I have ever had through WA.
This website is about learning how to make an adventure of a life time but to also include the family so that you never have to wonder what if? This program has showed my how everyone can help each other learn from one another so its like having an extended family. If I never accomplish nothing else in my life I hope it is to stress how important family is and how you need to make memories with family by adventures or just spending time together. Never let fear stop you from going kayaking or canoeing explore and learn how fun it can be.
I have noticed that kids no longer spend time with families its about friends, x box or phones and actually seeing how far they can get from family. Has anyone else noticed how the term family is nothing like it use to be??
When my grandparents was alive we had family get together every weekend or cookouts just something that included everyone from brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins anyone that would come came. I miss seeing families doing things together how many of you would like to see the term "FAMILY" back to the way it use to be???
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You are so right! The age of technology has many advantages, but it does take away sometimes our time spent with our families. :(
Yes it is and I hate to see the way the kids have let this type of technology take over. I would love to see the family values come back to the way it use to be.
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I agree with you Donna. My immediate family consists my wife and me, 9 children and their spouses, 36 grandchildren and 12 great grandkids. I am the eldest of 10 born to parents who thought nothing of inviting other's to join us for dinner, lunch or whatever. Mom always said that there were no strangers at the dinner table. If you dined with us once, you were family and helped yourself from then on.
We figured out how to keep the kids interested in in things other than XBOX, Wi and stuff like that. We gave them time limits on those activities we felt were distracting them from other pursuits By doing that, they became active sports people, riding, skiing, snowboarding and other outdoor activities.
Our best family memories are the ones we recorded during our trips to local lakes, ski hills and on cross-country runs to various places. Other memories were looked back on from reunions with the whole clan. The last one saw over 1100 family members attend. We took over the Saanich, BC fair grounds for that weekend. A good time was had by all.
These are the things 'family' is made of.
You are so right about what family is made. I love how you have taught your children and grandchildren how important family really is. It is something that I don't see very often and would love to see more families doing things together. I am in the process of moving from West Virginia to Florida because I want to be closer to my grandchildren and start making my memories more special and spending every waking hour I can with them and showing them the true value of family.
Take your camera or phone everywhere with you. You never know when something will catch your eye.
We are teaching the gang here about the family history too. We settled the west coast of Canada in 1850 and have held a presence here ever since, growing as the years dictate. Our Canadian eight-generation family tree is a roll of paper, like the ones you seen in adding machines, but it is 18 inches from top of the roll to the bottom, and about 5 inches thick. The names are written from one edge of the paper to the other, like landscape mode for a printer. It starts with my great-great-great-great-great grandfather and his wife, then spreads the length of the scroll, so that it measures about 22 feet long when unrolled. It gets added to with each birth and it's getting slightly heavy at my end of the roll. Love 'em all though. We have five generations alive at the moment. The eldest is my 2nd cousin, Charlie (she's 107) and the youngest is my great-granddaughter, Amber Rose (8 months). We are 'legend' as the saying goes. LOL.