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Often, you live a harried and hurried life in the pursuit of providing for your children’s needs and wants. For relaxation, you turn to adult recreational outdoor activities like golf that leaves little time for spending time with your children. You tend to forget that the best things in life are free and often fleeting, including your children’s happiness and childhood.

But you can reverse this woeful trend now. In fact, you can start with going down to your children’s level, or more appropriately, to the level of their kids’ sofa where you can do many activities without leaving the house and spending money. Here is how.

Sing Songs

You can sing your children’s songs with them. You can let them stand atop their kid-sized sofa while you plop down on the floor, pretend that you are the band and they are the divas, and sing your heart away! Sure, you will sing silly nursery songs but your children’s happy laughter and sweet voices definitely beat the rowdiness of karaoke bars with their horrendously off-key patrons.

Create a Book Club

You can drag your children’s bookcase near their kids’ sofa and start a home book club. Leave your boring annual reports and business journals behind. You should let your children lead you to their imaginary world of enchanted kingdoms peopled with talking animals and fantastical creatures. You can let them act out their stories while you sit on their children’s sofa. Just be careful though that you don’t sit too hard!

Pretend Play

With a little imagination, a pair of scissors and spare fabric, you can build a mini-throne for your children out of their kids’ sofa. Just pull a length of fabric through a towel hoop, hang it on the wall and arrange to make a backdrop for the throne. You can then embellish the mini-throne with cushions while your children make cardboard crowns, turn sticks into scepters and blankets into capes. Voila! You have your prince and princess!

Or you can make a mini-tent with their kids’ sofa in the center. You can make up situations where the mini-tent is your hiding place, your headquarters and your castle. Your imagination is the only limit!

Make a Mini-Theater

Why spend precious dollars to watch the movies in theaters when you can make your own mini-theater at home? You can designate adult sections with adult-sized sofas and kid sections with kid-sized sofas. Better yet, you can all cuddle up in your side of the home theater or sit at the feet of their kids’ sofa for a more intimate atmosphere. Throw in buckets of popcorn and pitchers of lemonade and you have a movie experience the whole family can enjoy! (Say goodbye to disturbing other moviegoers and keeping your silence while the movie plays)

If you do run out of ideas to do using your kids’ sofa, then you can always talk about anything and everything with your kids. Let them sit on their sofa while you listen to their wisdom and in the process learn while you teach. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the best way recreation there is!

Get closer to your children through imaginative uses of children