What things do you do with your family for beneficial recreation?

If I had kids, I wouldn't take to movies very often, or maybe not at all. I hate how swearing has become the norm. If other people want to do it, fine. But I wouldn't want my children listening to that when there is something I can do about it. Furthermore I wouldn't want to explain to my six year old why the man is on top of the woman under the sheets. I agree when you say much entertainment today has unwholesome material. As for my family personally, we used to more majority outdoor stuff. Picnics, hikes in the national forests and drives through the national and state parks. Some of my fondness memories come from that time. Old Faithful is quite amazing in person. :) If I have kids, I would surely spend lots of time within outdoors. I would discourage video games as much as possible, as I regard those a significant waste of time.

You are doing a very nice job in rearing your daughter. keep it up! We don't do that when our daughter was growing up. But we would eat out once in a while . We would also watch a wholesome DVD together at home, complete with snacks to eat while watching. But we always see to it that we always go to church together always on Sundays. We have instilled good moral values in her and now she's a smart and God fearing lady. I thank God so much for helping us rear her too.

I am a grandmother now and even my grandchildren are not little anymore, except for the smaller 2. But we did g to parks, to the zoo, to see children´s plays and we read and plyed with them. I have 2 daughters and when they wer little I had the Saturday morning cooking game. We made the whole diner, a cake and dessert. The kitchen ended up in mess but we had fun. I still have some of my grandsons (funny enough they are more interested than my granddaughter) to make cookies here or sweet dumplings. I also lovd to make dolls clothes with th kids and costumes for the dolls as we told an appropiate story. They would be the queens and kings with paper crowns.

Hmm...let's see...biking, long walks, playgrounds, barbeque-ing at the wild areas and in all 4 seasons, too! , baking, camping, reading time....wow, many things, I suppose. We both teach our kids various survival skills, and now that they're nearly 10 years old, we'll be teaching them more things about the wildlife. It'll be fun :-) We have computers here at home but basically it's limited use, even I don't like the computer very much, and that's probably a good thing :-D

Since my little one is still 4 years old, our favorite recreation is PLAYTIME! Just anything we can think of. she loves art the most - watercolor, cutting paper, coloring, drawing etc. I play with my 4 year-old daughter because I am a simple housewife and an unemployed nurse.lol she also loves movies, but I discourage her from watching too much TV. But our best family time is - maybe a stroll in the mall or in the park. And getting to taste FOOD that we haven't taste yet. I want my kid to try some of the new stuff in town. I realized lately that she loves pizza and donuts!

Your doing great with your kid! Yes, I agree with you. It's also healthy enjoying outdoors with your daughter and not the indoor and video games. She will appreciate mother nature more now that she's exposed to it. We as a family usually go outdoors too. It's more educational and fun seeing live animals and different kind of plants in our mini forest here in our place.

I had 5 children and since I was a work at home mom weekends were outside time I am originally from Missouri so we would go to Meramac Caverns as the Meramac River ran alongside the cave. The kids loved to play in the water as it seemed more like a spring and they could see into the water. While we did theme parks when we could afford to with them, we did zoos, Grants Farm, Purina Farms things that were free. I took my children to learn history at various sites. Cahokia Mounds were right across the state line in Illinois. We also went up to Hannibal, Missouri. As they got older we got our first boat it was a 15ft. We enjoyed weekends out on a sand bar with hotdogs, and sodas and chips. the kids always had plenty of water to play in. When we bought a larger boat 2155ft boat, we had areas for everyone to sleep and even a fridge we could use at the dock no generator on this size boat. We then traded up to a 2855 boat, so we had air condition as long as we were at the dock over the weekend. Our final boat as our childen grew was a 41ft houseboat. It was wonderful most like a trailer on water. Had all nescessities of living onboard. I know what you are thinking we are rich. No, we carefully watched and spent the same 10,000 on each boat. Even the 41 ft boat was only 10,000 while we bought older boats all were fiberglass not wood and we waited for the right deal so we would have fun and not be sinking money into it. We had our boat sitting on Lake of the Ozarks. So we did weekend trips, week trips during summer, sometimes I would go with the kids for a week if hubby was working, and a few times we even went down for Christmas after a snow it was beautiful so see the snow on the trees and surrounding woods while we relaxed on our boat by ourselves. During summer everyone on the docks would cook something and we just always had pot luck on the docks plenty to eat and share with others. My children grew up pretty well rounded out doing things other than sit at home and watch TV or later just sit on the computer. As they say there was no dust under our kids or our feet.

My family likes being outdoors. We visit parks, canoe, hike and geocache. I am thankful my son isn't that into video games. He would rather be outside more than anything. I almost forgot we also enjoy going to the library and flea markets.

Maybe my recreation is not wholesome enough. In weekends,I often with my mother go to supermarket to buy something,maybe we will cook a delicious dinner for us,maybe we will go to mall. Just like you say,today's recreation often not wholesome. In cool days,we will go to park,see beautiful flowers. But it's not often.