99 Ways to Entertain Your Family for Free - $3.89 - Thomas, Mack - 9780307458360

99 Ways to Entertain Your Family for Free
Thomas, Mack
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
99 Ways to Entertain Your Family for Free offers a variety of opportunities to both entertain and educate family members of all ages. The major categories of free activities include Around Town, Just Imagine, With Nature, Rituals and Routines, and Holidays.

Mack Thomas, father of five adult children, has written a score of childrens books, including bestsellers The First Step Bible and What Would Jesus Do? A winner of three ECPA Gold Medallions book awards, he lives in Oregon.

BOOK EXCERPTS
Introduction

This book is really about more than getting the best deal on entertainment. Even if we could afford the most lavishly expensive diversions available, theyre less valuableand ultimately
less satisfyingthan the kinds of entertainment promoted in this book. So not only will you be getting something here for freeyoull be getting the best for free.

In fact, the qualities, attitudes, mindsets, and skills that let us enjoy to the max any kind of entertainment are best learned in the kinds of activities youll be guided through in this book.

So, at root, this is more about learning to enjoy better all of life than about being entertained more economically. Though the dollar savings are no small matter. Based on a conservative
average expenditure of $7.50 per person for a paid entertainment event, this book will save a family of four about $3,000 annually.

If Youre Bored, Youre Boring
The foundational concept here is probably this: truly satisfying entertainment comes from an active attitude and approach, not passive. Its about taking the lead to engage in whats happening all around us, knowing therell always be something interesting and delightful about it.

In other words, youre only as bored as you choose to be.

As our five children were growing up, my wife and I tried to teach them that if a person is bored, its because he himself is boring. It means hes self-focused (instead of looking outward with attentiveness and a readiness to interact). Who could be more boring than someone sitting there, demanding to be entertained? Its as if that person is chained in the prison of self.

So you may want to strike from your familys vocabulary the phrase Im bored. Replace it with an attitude that affirms, Theres something enjoyable and interesting here, and Im going
to find it. Build that into your familyand youll all be not only happier and more satisfied but also more free.

Youll also be more ready for lifes realities that go beyond entertainment. Half a century ago, in a letter written to a mother, C. S. Lewis quoted eighteenth-century British author Samuel Johnson: To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor. One reason to seek such happiness, Lewis said, is to
prepare for being happy in our own real home hereafter. May this book help increase the kind of happiness in your family that indeed nudges all of you toward heave and its lasting
joys.

AUTHOR BIO
Mack Thomas, father of five adult children, has written a score of childrens books, including bestsellers The First Step Bible and What Would Jesus Do? A winner of three ECPA Gold Medallions book awards, he lives in Oregon.

MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0307458369
ISBN(13-digit): 9780307458360
Dewey Decimal: 248
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 104
Paper Weight (lb): .2 lb

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