Social Life
"Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.10 For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!" - Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, ESV
Social life with friends and family are important for good spiritual and mental health. Remember to avoid a worldly life and strive to live a Godly life in your actions, thoughts, and passions.
Be sure to spend at least a day or part of the day with a friend every two weeks as a minimum.
Once a week go on a date night with your spouse. At the minimum, go to a simple and inexpensive restaurant. Check with family and friends for babysitters and check with your church for a babysitting list or if they have date nights.
If you have children, spend at least 2hrs a day with them (school and work life permitting). If you have multiple children, set aside at least one day, once a month, that you spend a day with just them. You can also have special time each day where you spend at least 10 minutes with them doing an activity that they pick. Have a father and daughter or mother and son date night.
Date Night (or daytime) and Friend Activity Ideas
Indoors, aquarium, ax throwing, art museum, board, card (Fluxx), and video games, bookstore, coffee or icecream shop, concert hall, dining out, group classes, indoor climbing wall, movie theatre, open art studios, orchard (apple and peach), sports (baseball or hockeygame), vintage arcade
Outdoors, art festivals, concert, cultural festival (Greek, Scottish), disc golf, gardens, geochaching, hiking, historic sites, local markets, one day road trip to the mountains or beach, zoo
Family Time Ideas
Adventures and Outdoors, hike in nature,
bike ride, disc-golf, gardening, gardens, indoor climbing wall, playgrounds (local or travel to one far away), scavenger hunt (print off internet), sprinklers, swimming
Art and Music, coloring books or pages, crafts, how-to-drawing books, local art or music class, Playdough, sing-a-long movies or singing songs
Books, child read to the family, make your own book, storytime
Places, aquarium, art museum, book store and library (B&N, 2nd and Charles, comic book store, for reading, browsing, and storytime), Build-a-Bear store, children museum, comic book conventions (family friendly), ice cream or yogurt shop, local arcade (Frankies Fun Park, SpareTime), historic sites, LEGO store, orchard (apples and peaches), sports (baseball or hockeygame), sweet shop, trampoline park (research trampoline park safety first), zoo
Games, board games (HABA and Peacable Kingdom brands), card games (Go Fish, UNO), checkers, chess, hide-n-seek, video games (Nintendo Switch, Animal Crossing, LEGO games, Luigi's Mansion 3, Mario Kart 8, Mario Kart: Live, Mario Party: Superstars, Party Party Time, Paw Patrol, Pikmin 3, Super Mario World 3D, Team Racing Sonic, Yoshi's Crafted World)
Science and Technology, microscope to look at objects in nature and around your home, telescope to look at the moon and stars
Toys, dominoe toppling, Hotwheels racing sets, Legos, pretend kitchen, pretend with action figures or dolls