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Celebrate MLK Day with your kids

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When you are looking for ideas on how to celebrate Martin Luther King day, remember this is more than just a day off from work.

Choose an idea or activity that allows you to reflect on what the day truly is all about. For example, to celebrate Martin Luther King day, you can:

Learn about King-Teach Others

Pay Your Respects-Attend a Special Event

Learn about King – Or Teach Others

If you don’t know much about MLK, this is a great day for learning more. Pick up some books about King’s life, or find a historical documentary about him. Learning more about what he did is a way of valuing his actions and respecting the influence he had on our society. If you spend time around children, either your own or perhaps as a teacher or mentor, use this day to teach them the basics of civil rights, and to explain, in age-appropriate terms, who King was and what he helped accomplish for America.

Pay Your Respects

One of the best things you can do on MLK Day is simply to acknowledge it. This may sound strange, but many people consider a federal holiday as either a break from work or a plain old inconvenience, and they don’t stop to consider the meaning behind the day and why it was created. Giving yourself some time during the course of the holiday to sit down and think about what the world might have been like without MLK is a way of acknowledging him, and appreciating his contributions to our lives. That’s why this day is a holiday in the first place.

via What Can I Do To Celebrate MLK Day?.

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21 First-Rate Cheap Date Ideas

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Stay Home! If you’re married-with-children, send the kids out to a babysitter and just stay home. Order some Chinese take-out, leave the TV off and spend some really intimate time together.

via 21 First-Rate Cheap Date Ideas.

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Kids Cater Your Romantic Eve

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Let the kids in on the fun.
Have kids and want to celebrate a romantic anniversary together? Sometimes you can easily find a sitter and have the evening to yourselves. But sometimes you can’t– and sometimes it’s even more fun that way! Want to celebrate a romantic occasion with your kids? Put them to work planning and serving a romantic evening to the “special couple” (that is, you and your spouse)!
Explain the special occasion to your kids, and let them know you want their help. Then have the kids help come up with and create menus for you to use. Ask them to help set up a fancy table and assist with the cooking, if you like. Then have them wear their Sunday best and pretend that your home is a restaurant for the evening. When you and your spouse are ready for dinner, go outside and knock, and let the kids answer the door, treating you to a romantic night together. The kid will feel special, needed, and included, and you’ll all feel closer as a family. A romantic date idea the whole family can be part of!

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