Wholesome Family Recreation: Building Strong Families (Chapter 22)

In my family we always had the motto of "Work hard, play hard". This meant that we would work hard and give everything we do our "all" and then we could go out and reward ourselves by doing something fun or something that we want to do. I think that if family work can build strong families then I also think that wholesome family recreation can also build strong families and bring them together. "Recreation can be easy. We all know how to find fun things to do. In our current world, we are immersed in a plethora of entertaining technology. We have access to a variety of television programming; we have myriad interactive video games. If we are on the go, we have smart phones that access the digital airways. Opportunities to recreate surround us. The choices are endless. But we must consider the implications of these different recreation choices for the quality of our lives " (Widmer & Taniguchi, 2012, p. 225). I think that an example of good wholesome recreation is family home evening.

"We have found the Family Home Evening to be a great assistance to parents in fostering meaningful and close family relationships which help the home serve as a sanctuary from evil influences and as a source of strength to each family member." (James A. Cullimore). I think that wholesome family recreation and family home evening tie together because you can always include wholesome recreation in family home evening and both of them build strong families. My family and I are really big into sports and we thrive on being active so we always included some kind of wholesome recreation activity in our family home evening and I think that it brought us closer together because we always had so much fun together and we learned to enjoy the time that we had with each other. "We live in a world full of opportunities to engage in wholesome family recreation, if we know where to look for them." (Widmer & Taniguchi, 2012, p. 233). Sometimes it is important that we take ourselves away from worldly things and engage in activities that build families and together and bring us closer to the Savior.



References:

• Widmer, M. A., & Taniguchi, S. T. (2012). Wholesome Family Recreation: Building Stronger Families. In Successful marriages and families: Proclamation principles and research perspectives (pp. 225-236). Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University.
• Cullimore, J. A. (1975, October). Family Home Evening - James A. Cullimore. Retrieved July 23, 2014, from https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1975/10/family-home-evening?lang=eng&query=family+home+evening