<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f5608145-46b4-47e2-a25b-5103970bd270/3160BF28-FD73-422A-A62E-6CDA9F9619FB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/5-out-of-the-box-ways-to-connect-with-your-teen-tween-and-young-kids/" href="http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/5-out-of-the-box-ways-to-connect-with-your-teen-tween-and-young-kids/" style="font-size: 11px;">zenhabits.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/5-out-of-the-box-ways-to-connect-with-your-teen-tween-and-young-kids/"><STRONG>1. Weekly Rendezvous</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/5-out-of-the-box-ways-to-connect-with-your-teen-tween-and-young-kids/">Find a time once a week where your family can get together and talk about a certain issue or play a game. Make it consistent. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/5-out-of-the-box-ways-to-connect-with-your-teen-tween-and-young-kids/"><STRONG>2. Game Night</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/5-out-of-the-box-ways-to-connect-with-your-teen-tween-and-young-kids/">Each of us got to pick a game a certain night of the week. I found it was much easier to interact with my parents during a game of ‘Clue’ or ‘Scene It’ and easier to forget I was mad at them about my curfew after the dance that weekend.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/5-out-of-the-box-ways-to-connect-with-your-teen-tween-and-young-kids/"><STRONG>3. Rate your day</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/5-out-of-the-box-ways-to-connect-with-your-teen-tween-and-young-kids/"> Every night at dinner have everyone go around the table and give the best part of their day, the worst part of their day and then a surprise (anything random that happened, a funny story or anecdote).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/5-out-of-the-box-ways-to-connect-with-your-teen-tween-and-young-kids/"><STRONG>4. Tap in to your Local</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/5-out-of-the-box-ways-to-connect-with-your-teen-tween-and-young-kids/">Depending on your kids’ interests there are a number of interesting activities you can do with your family at local stores.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/5-out-of-the-box-ways-to-connect-with-your-teen-tween-and-young-kids/"><STRONG>5. Festivals, carnivals and Shows—in the next town over</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/5-out-of-the-box-ways-to-connect-with-your-teen-tween-and-young-kids/">Register and check local calendars managed by your town and neighboring town’s Chamber of Commerce.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/5-out-of-the-box-ways-to-connect-with-your-teen-tween-and-young-kids/">If you keep with it and show them you love them, the relationship will get better!</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3160BF28-FD73-422A-A62E-6CDA9F9619FB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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