When’s the last time you played with your kids? Forget the sidelines because Mom Needs to Play!
Thanks to The Crayola Experience and Dunkin Donuts for partnering with mamachallenge for some great giveaways.
When is the last time you “played” with your kids?
Not just watched them but played with them?
Studies show that moms that play with their kids vs. just managed, monitor, or act as the organizer are happier as individuals. And a bonus: seeing mom at play (and happy doing it) also creates a stronger bond with the kids to see you be happy.
Science also shows that the more productive and creative moms at play initiated the release of dopamine, the chemical that actually makes you happy.
Happy Mama, Happier Family.
Now this doesn’t mean you aren’t the parent, it’s more that you are involved in the process rather than administer it all the time. I remember as a kid, going swimming meant your parent watched you swim. And as a parent, I’ve done the same thing, but my kids have asked, can’t you go swimming with us? That’s parenting gold – simple request for such a simple thing to make them happy and it’s exercise!
Another poll asked kids what invention they hated most and the #1 answer was cell phones because their kids were always on them! That says a lot, right?
I actually asked my Facebook friends what’s something they loved as kids and quit doing as adults. The list filled up quick – with tons of things they loved doing and hadn’t done in years. But almost every one of them couldn’t be done with the kids.
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About the Crayola Experience
Explore the Crayola Experience at The Shops at Willow Bend in Plano, Texas is where the magic of Crayola comes to life! Let your creativity run wild, color outside the lines, learn, explore and learn. This is an attraction the whole family can enjoy a colorful adventure for a child (and an adult’s) imagination!
The Crayola Experience in Plano is giving away four passes to get you in the colorful mood!
About Dunkin Donuts
What do you not know about Dunkin Donuts? It’s What America runs on. From coffee, to donuts and everything in between Dunkin Donuts make is your one spot for sweets, treats, and breakfast eats!
Dunkin Donuts is making it even easier to celebrate National Donut Day by sharing a $50 gift card with one special mamachallenge reader.
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My favorite summer memory as a kid is our week at the beach!
We had so many memorable experiences while in Ocean City, we actually had a “to do list” of activities (b/c once we did one thing and enjoyed it, we’d want to do it again the following year. As you can imagine, that list grew over the years, so we neve had much down time (during a week whe you are truly supposed to relax! Ha)
I loved going to the public pool with my mom and sister.
I liked going to summer camp.
Riding bikes ALL day and summer travel with family!
Getting ice cream from the ice cream truck that came in the neighborhood in your bike with all your friends. Also going to the beach each summer with my famil and playing in the sand all day and ocean and going fishing with my dad.
Going to the beach!
Playing after the sun goes down in front of my grandmas house woth all the neighborhood out doing something! It was so much fun!
I liked camping at Lake Texoma with my cousins! Somehow it always managed to rain on us though, but we still had a blast!
My favorite thing was when my parents let us have a slip and slide for our hill in the back yard when I was little.