Family Time: Create a Perfect Day

Sometimes the best family memories come from letting someone else take charge.

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Did you ever watch the ABC sitcom The Middle? Do you remember the episode ‘One Kid at a Time’ where Frankie and Mike dedicate a day to each of the kids?

If you don’t remember the episode or didn’t watch it, here’s a quick recap: Mike and Frankie feel the kids don’t get enough of their one-on-one attention, so they give each kid their own day. The three kids get to each plan their own “perfect” day where they get Mom and Dad’s undivided attention. Of course, it’s a sitcom so this doesn’t go the way anyone expects it to.

But the idea itself isn’t a bad one. As single parents, we may not be able to dedicate a full day to each child individually, but we can adapt the idea to make it work for our situation.

So how does this whole perfect day thing work? Here are my thoughts.

Set your budget

A perfect day might include some rather expensive things like theme parks and buying new cars or expensive clothes or jewelry. So step one is setting your budget to make sure you don’t go broke trying to meet everyone’s ideals.

If you’ve only got one kid, this is going to be pretty easy. If you have more than one…