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Spend More Time With Family Playing Cornhole
June 14th, 2010 | 
Author: The nuclear family has changed over the years and continues to adjust and grow and the dynamics that once made families strong can be a bit too easy to let fall by the wayside. It’s important to bring people together and enjoy family time, and this doesn’t include watching television in the family room. While television is nice, it’s also addicting and it doesn’t promote healthy, heartfelt interaction between members of the family unit.
Getting outside and playing games with adults and children is one of the best, and healthiest, ways to spend time with your family. It doesn’t really matter what you do as long as you’re all together and enjoying it. There are numerous sports and activities that families can share including baseball, volleyball, badminton, soccer, and tennis, to name a few. But if you’re looking for something a bit more exciting, and something that everyone can compete at and laugh with, then the cornhole game is the answer for you.
Cornhole for the ages
The cornhole game became popular in the Midwest a couple of decades ago, though its origins are considered murky. Some claim that it started in Cleveland, but there are references to a very similar game dating back to Europe in the fifteenth century. Wherever it originated, cornhole has increased in popularity in recent years.
It’s a simple game that is played with bean bags and two cornhole boards in which the players toss the bean bags with the intention of getting them through a six-inch hole in the board. While the regulation distance for the boards is 27 feet apart from one another, families can determine, on their own, what works best. It is also perfectly normal and natural to allow younger children to stand closer to the cornhole boards since their strength and agility will be less than the adults.
Cornhole doesn’t discriminate
Perhaps the best thing about the cornhole game for families is that it doesn’t discriminate based on age, size, or strength. Certainly ability and practice will make a difference, but it is easy to handicap a member of the family who has either natural talent or simply practices a great deal more than anyone else in the family. For example, you can make Uncle Rob -who plays in cornhole tournaments around the country- stand ten, fifteen, or even twenty feet further back when he throws his tosses. Wherever he has to stand to even the playing field will work.
Cornhole boards are simple to store and setup, which means that anytime is a good time to play cornhole. It doesn’t have to be reserved for special occasions, such as a birthday or anniversary party or even a reunion; cornhole can be played everyday, if a family chooses.
Cornhole is such an easy and versatile game and offers hours of entertainment for the entire family. It goes without saying that family time should be spent laughing, talking, and simply being together. With cornhole, you get the added bonus of being outside with the ones you love.
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Let Them Know You Care – The Five Love Languages
When showing love to our family, we do fun stuff with them, and share ideas and listen to them. Especially when we are busy, it is hard to make sure that others know we love them. Do you ever feel like the flowers you bought for your wife or the brief but kind words you spoke to son did not quite meet some need they had? That something more was needed to connect you? It might be that you are missing the concept of the five love languages. When you are not speaking in a family member’s love language, they do not feel loved as much by you as when you are telling them you love them in a way that is truly meaningful to them.
Words of affirmation. These people need to hear verbally that you love them and care about them. They also want to hear that you like the way the completed a task this morning, are proud of their work in school or their job. Also be sure to tell them when you like the shirt he or she is wearing, or you like their new hair do. Say a positive, uplifting statement to words of affirmation members every day.
Gift people. A person whose love language is gifts loves to be surprised by a gift at any time of the day. They like little presents and big ones. It does not need to be a special occasion: gift people love presents given for no particular reason (except to show your love, of course!) Some gift loving people like fancy wrappings and ribbons, for others, the gift in a plastic bag is just fine.
Quality time people. As time is our most important asset, it only makes sense that we can display our love towards our family by giving them our time. The single most important thing to quality time people is that you listen to them. Simply take the time to listen intently and sincerely when they are speaking. You should also spend time doing activities the other person enjoys: golfing, fishing, shopping, or whatever else is fun to them.
Touch people. People whose love language is touch always want to be hugged when you greet them. Children always want to hold your hand, even when they are getting older, and often like to be held or rocked before bedtime. They appreciate a spouse scratching their back or rubbing their feet.
Acts of service people. If a person’s love language is acts of service, they will want you to mow the grass, help clean up the house, fix the closet door, make lunch for them, or sew on a button. Any small act like this can be done on a daily basis to make sure these people know you love them.