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Poway Family Focus Night - A Community Non-Event for Families
By Polly | May 21, 2006
After a year of meeting, discussing, and planning, the City of Poway California has successfully initiated their first Family Focus Night. A night scheduled for May 22nd, where families are free of any organized sports, church, or school activities. A night where families are just free to spend together and just be.
Faced with demanding and busy schedules, some Poway leaders were becoming increasingly concerned with the fast pace of their family lives and their inability for quality family time. So they decided to do something about it by organizing their first ever Family Focus Night. Working with schools, churches, businesses, and sports organizations, leaders of this city worked tirelessly to gain their support and agreement that on Monday, May 22nd from 5 - 9pm there would be nothing scheduled for parents or kids of Poway. Families are free to eat dinner together, plan family activities, and spend the evening doing things together as a family.
A simple idea, that probably 10 years ago didn’t require an organized effort to make happen…..
Remember, your kids will thank you for those little things later.
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May 26th, 2006 at 2:39 am
that is so sad that it takes all that work and effort to accomplish some family time!
it is hard, but as families we need to just make those nights happen for our family.