Monday Matters

Today was our third week of working in the book "Making Mondays Matter." Each Monday of the year, the book suggests an activity for making the day matter. The first Monday, we looked at how we spend our time and how to avoid wasting time, so that we can use our time better. The second week, the book suggested turning off the TV. Since ours is not usually on anyway, we changed it to a Monday with no video or computer games, which then extended into a week of limited play times rather than endless hours. This week the suggestion was to sign up for Amber alert messages. My older son and I got signed up for this service, and it spawned a good discussion with my younger son about avoiding/eliminating at-risk behaviors.