One weekend activity you should always strive to have regularly with your kids is outdoor camping at any time during the year, even in the cold months
out in your yard. This is one leisure activity the kids would always like to experience and brag about to their peers in school, especially when they have to exaggerate a little how they have to contend with the cold outdoors with just their jackets and sweaters and not using any kind of heating equipment at all. They also would like to exaggerate further by telling their classmates that they study their lessons onweekend using only a Coleman led flashlight in their tents.

You can make the weekend campouts in the yard as your way of weaning away the kids from the addictive TV viewing they have developed, worsened now by the long hours before computer monitors chatting and playing online games with the their Internet pals. One of the boys even complains he feels like vomiting all the time for no reason at all. The doctor said that this could be caused by an eye problem in its early stage, and caused by the long exposure to the electronic gadgets. Thus, the weekly yard campouts give rest to the eyes of the kids with just their viewing the stars in the skies at night with only the Coleman flashlight as their source of light.

You have to be firm with the kids on the problem of too much computer and TV time, as you do not want any of them to have eye defects later, just because you did not do something to control their use of the electronic gadgets. The kids should only use the computer to meet their needs for web surfing for their school lessons. With no TV allowed in the family tent pitched every weekend in the yard, the vomiting of your boy complaining before has stopped. He now spends the evenings on weekends looking for the bats hanging from the trees nearby with his mini led flashlight.

When the dads learned of your mandatory weekend campouts in the yard they start calling you about it and asking why the unusual weekend campouts. You can explain to them the value of the activity, especially to the health of the children. They readily agreed with the idea and said they will also start the weekend prohibition of their kids from the computers so they can prevent their kids from the eye problems you mentioned. They also asked about the led flashlight your kid mentioned in his bat hunting at night.

You confirmed to the inquiring dads that bat hunting with the Coleman recheargeable flashlight is a much better thing to do for the kids as they can rest their eyes in the dark without the bothersome computer monitors straining their eyesight.

One dad even came over to your place one Saturday evening just to see for himself your camping activity in your yard. He was thankful to have made the visit and said he will buy his kid the Coleman flashlight right away, as there are many bothersome bats in the trees at the back of his house, eating away at his fruits at night. He wants them shut down by his kid with the air rifle he uses for his hunting hobby.