It's Great to Be...

Materials:

• Writing supplies
• stapler

Here's how you can help your child understand that any age is a great age to be.

Give your child three or four sheets of paper, a pencil, and verbal instructions to write his or her current age at the top of the first page. On subsequent pages, your child can write some of the important ages he or she has been (a ten-year-old might have pages entitled "ten," "six," "two," and "newborn").

Then ask your child to make a list of all the best things about being each of those ages. He or she can include abilities, privileges, events, hopes and ambitions, and so on. For example, on the "newborn" page, your child might list: "Met my family," "Learned new things all the time," etc. Under "two," he or she might write: "Learned to run," "Made my first friends," "Visited Grandma," and so on.

When your child is finished writing, staple the pages together and put them in a safe place. He or she can add to it periodically upon discovering the best things about being an older kid.

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© 2005 by Steve and Ruth Bennett. Excerpted from 365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

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