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 What People Are Saying About The Million Minute Family Challenge “In addition to enjoying games with my children, I also use games during my sessions as a speech-language pathologist. I have hundreds of games to promote reading, cognitive thinking, perseverance, winning and losing, manners and so much more. I think our society could make more use of games as a teaching tool in almost all avenues of life” -Judy and her children, Everett and Lenora, comprised the family group 
 “Thank you for introducing us to this opportunity, it really is wonderful to encourage game playing.” -Leah, Generations United “Our family has really enjoyed the "excuse" to play more games than we usually do. We recently disconnected our television service, and have not even missed that distraction because we have been spending so much time playing games. I have loved watching the older kids as they play with their younger siblings. What valuable lessons and virtues have been learned: sportsmanship, honesty, empathy, fair play, [perseverance] just to name a few.” -Bev of Oregon “Each of our Boys & Girls Club sites has designated one hour per week as 'game time'. Seventy-six youth participated in game time during October. The kids are having a blast and we are going to institute tournaments in the most popular games.” -Don, Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach, CA “Our students had a wonderful time trying to rack up minutes for this challenge. The educational games were a plus to our program. We are constantly looking for ways to better our children of the future. Every time we mentioned the Million Minute Family Challenge the kids were excited because they liked the idea of competing against children all around the nation.” -Beatriz of Wisconsin “We are a small rural library and are always looking at ways to challenge our families to spend time together. This looks like something that will be very affordable for both us (the library) and them.” -Cyndi, Moriarty Library in New Mexico “[At our Annual New Year’s Eve Party] We set up tables all over the house, make a big Crock pot full of Chili and a big pot full of Hot Cider, invite everyone we know to bring a snack and a game to share and we play board games all night.” -Patricia of Missouri “Project AIM stands for "Achievement Involving Mentoring." We have found game-playing a great way to break the ice, work on word skills, teach strategic thinking , etc.” -Laura of Mississippi “This was an awesome thing for the school and it got the kids really excited! We are doing a reading drive this week and next week, and going to allow the kids to play games an hour a day for a whole five-day week if they can log an average of three hours of reading per student over the next two weeks.” -Derek, Sprucewood School in Utah “Thanks for helping us all have a little more fun in life!!” -Donna, MOMS Club of Spencerport/Churchville, NY “Thank you very much for this wonderful project! We have loads of fun playing as a family, and it was wonderful for my children to see the minutes add up. They were surprised to see that there are other children their age that play games. They thought all other children their age wanted to do was play video games and watch TV!” -Christy of Nevada We want to know what you think about the Million Minute Family Challenge™! If you've participated, we want to hear from you. Click Here to send a quick email telling us what you think about it. Back to Get Involved |
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