Have you kept to your New Year’s resolutions? A quick internet search can provide you with hundreds of ideas of things to give up – meat, alcohol, dairy, carbs, chocolate, sugar – the list goes on. I have not even started my New Year’s resolution yet (to eat more healthily) because there’s still Christmas chocolate and biscuits around that I can’t resist.
The point of New Year’s resolutions is to give you a chance to take stock of your life. To reflect and review your choices, lifestyle and priorities. To ask, what’s important to me and my family, what matters most and how do I put it first? For most of us the answers are simple and universal – spending time with our loved ones, being healthy and happy. So how do we get more of these things? This year I am taking a different approach. I’m not giving anything up, but I am going to add things in, like eating more fruit and vegetables.
At Coppice Valley we add enrichment activities to our children’s curriculum. We call this the Coppice 50 which are fifty wonderful experiences we provide children in their seven years with us. The fifty activities include life skills like first aid and safety awareness, wonderful childhood experiences like camping out and learning to climb a tree plus cultural experiences such as a trip to the pantomime and hearing live music. You can read more about our offer here on our website.
Why not try adding in, not taking away, something simple to enrich your family time at home? You could try something different each month like going for a walk after dinner every night in January, even if it’s only round the block, to get moving more together. In February, you could try getting out somewhere new each weekend. I’m taking inspiration with my family from the 1000 Hours Outside Campaign.
So, if you’re yet to make a resolution or are looking for a more positive approach, why not look at things a little differently this year. Make 2023 a Year of Enrichment for your family and say yes to more fun and quality time together.
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