Healthy, strong family relationships are foundational to young people’s growth, learning, and well-being.
These relationships build strong social and emotional strengths that kids use throughout their lives.
But great family relationships don’t just happen..
Welcome to My Discovery Destination!
Discovery Family Adventures
where your family can find plenty of opportunities to
The Discovery Family Adventures provide ideas, activities, and experiences to help build strong family relationships.
Our goal is to strengthen family relationships to help kids be and become their best selves
and to support parents in raising happy, successful, resilient kids in an exciting,
but sometimes turbulent and dangerous world.
Core Adventures are still available via the website for use by anyone that wants them, but everyone is encouraged to use the Discovery Hunt (Goosechase) App for hundreds of adventures throughout the year.
Get links for downloading the App HERE.
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Choose from the Adventures listed below
(or design your own family adventure!)
Take a photo that represents what you did to 'BE KIND' and upload it to your social media sites with the hashtag #BeKind and #WorldKindness Sponsored by Wattson and My Discovery Destination!
Family Adventure
GOAL: Help family members develop the virtue of being kind
The ADVENTURE:
Choose from the suggestions below (or think of one of your own) and participate in activities to develop a habit of kindness.
TIPS:
Let your child share what they did for this Adventure and ask them how it impacted them. Support the child in their 'kindness' efforts, especially if they need something to make it happen. Provide positive feedback when you see your child/children being kind. This doesn't need to be limited to kind acts being done officially for this Adventure. Make it a habit of noticing when you see kindness, recognizing and acknowledging the kindness, expressing gratitude for the kindness, and expressing how the kindness makes you feel.
Things as simple as a SMILE or a COMPLIMENT can literally change the trajectory of someone's day. You may never know your simple kindness lifted someone struggling to a better place, or helped a stranger see beauty in the world instead of the darkness surrounding them before you showed up.
You can bake a treat for someone having a rough day, make your sister's bed, or do a job around the house that no one wants to do, but remember that the simple things count to-- open a door for someone, let a friend choose first, or take time to listen to a friend who needs to talk. Every little kindness counts!
KINDNESS BINGO
Here are some fun activities you can try to get the kindness going in your home and neighborhood:
Kindness BINGO! Go for BINGO or go for BLACKOUT!
Remember that you don't have to do it all today!
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Pre-K Adventure
Complete a random act of kindness with your little Adventurer. Tell them how happy it makes you to do ice things for others.
Community Engagement Adventure
Want to take this Adventure to the Seasons of Service level?
Here are some ideas~
Get others involved in your kindness campaign. Sometimes all it takes is a simple invitation. Invite a few friends to join you in completing your kind acts of service. You may want to host a friendly 'Kindness Challenge'. Challenge a few of your friends and see who can rack up the most kind acts in a given day or week. You may even want to make the 'challenge' be to see who can get the most people to participate with you on your Kindness campaign. Set a goal with your group of friends to perform a certain number of kind acts during the week and then work together to accomplish the goal.Teen Adventure
Give your teen one extra compliment a day and encourage them to do the same.
Photo Location
by Simple Acts.
The mission of My Discovery Destination! and the Discovery Family program is to STRENGTHEN FAMILIES and BUILD CHARACTER through providing opportunities for families to enjoy FREE family experiences so they can build strong bonds and CREATE and CAPTURE memories.
NOTE: If the Adventures don't show up find them at DiscoveryFamilyAdventures.com
My Discovery Destination! Adventures
Sponsored by My Discovery Destination! and local businesses and organizations in your community
for the purpose of
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES and BUILDING CHARACTER.