Awesome Idea! I would also recommend: another great educational and parent and child time together resource, Think It Ink It Publishing providing more opportunities for your children to become authors!! They will love using their creativity and imaginations to write their own story to professionally illustrated wordless picture books. It's also a great way to keep your child occupied on a long car trip and to keep them reading and writing over the summer so they go back to school prepared and not behind for the next school year. Go to Think It Ink It Publishing.com for more.

The Million Minute Family Challenge is also a great advocate of board and card games. Visit www.millionminute.com to learn more. Basically all you have to do is grab a game, some people, and play and then log the minutes you have played at the www.miillionminute.com website. The goal as a nation is to reach 1 million minutes of game play each September through December. We know families play games, but this is a great way to make the committment and families always thank us for raising their awareness to spend more quality time together. Families, schools, libraries, anyone can make a group and join in. At the website you can sign up now, to be notified when the organizer kits will be mailed out. There is no cost to participate either, just fun.