Family & Kids Bucket List
Research my family genealogy
Find out where your family actually came from. Finding out the stories of your ancestors gives you so much context for your life now, even if you’re generations apart. These days there are a number of websites that can help you trace back centuries or further!
Create trust funds for my kids
Even if you can only put a little bit in for them, the earlier you do it the more interest it will gather over time. Being able to provide a lump sum to help get them started as adults is so helpful, whether it’s towards college or a down payment on a house.
Take a family vacation to a Disney park
It’s the happiest place on Earth, after all!
Walk the Freedom Trail with my family
Head to Boston, Massachusetts, and walk the 2.5mile path through US history. Take a self-guided tour through sixteen locations significant to the American Revolution – everyone in the family will learn something, and it’s a lovely day out.
Go skiing with my family
Ski vacations are a perfect mix of activity and relaxation for your family holiday. The kids will be outside all day, either learning to ski or playing in the snow, and the bigger kids get to have fun too! Then at night there’s hot chocolates, marshmallows, and warm fires for snuggling up when everyone’s all tuckered out.
Instill a love of the world in my children through travel
This will feel quite gradual, until suddenly your children are old enough to take themselves off on their own adventures and you’ll wonder where the time has gone. Encourage them to be curious about the world around them and respectful of different cultures, and you’ll have confident, well-rounded children into adulthood.
Go fishing with my son
Fishing with your son isn’t really about catching fish (though obviously that makes it much more fun). It’s about teaching them how to use a rod, spending time together, and having chats about life.
Build or make something that I can leave for my kids
Creating things with your own hands is incredibly satisfying, and imbues an object with far more worth than whatever you paid for the materials. You could make a piece of jewellery, build a chest of drawers, or craft a beautiful vase – ultimately it doesn’t matter what it is, only that you cared enough to make it for them.
Read my child the children's classics
There are many classic stories that have entered the popular consciousness so much so that you can’t imagine not knowing them. Passing on your favourite stories is more than just telling them stories, it’s passing down your culture. Watch their faces light up as they experience them for the very first time.
Write my family history
If you don’t know much about your parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents, imagine how little your own children will know. Finding out all the family stories and writing them down in the one place would make the most amazing family heirloom – one that is forever being updated as your own family grows.
Make my parents proud of me
We’re happy to take suggestions on this one.
Run/Walk in a 'color run' with my kids
Dash through 5km of multi-colored chalk clouds, turning yourself into a rainbow as you and the family make your way through the dream-like course. At the end is a Finish Festival, with music, a color-bomb fight, and unicorns. They say it’s the happiest 5km on Earth!
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Write a letter to my children every year until they turn 18
Send it to them on their birthday, telling them all the ways they’ve grown over the past year and what a special person they’re turning into. The moment of reflection will be as good for you as reading each letter is for them.
Have a mommy-daughter date
No matter what activity you choose to do, spending time together is beautiful. Teach her something, or go and discover an interest of hers – either way, it’s so important to learn about each other as you both grow.
Walk my daughter down the aisle
It’s every father’s dream to see his little girl grow up into a beautiful young lady, and walking her down the aisle is your big chance to show off how proud you are of her and what a good job you’ve done.
Go on a family vacation every year
Whether it’s an around-the-world trip or a camping ground in the next town over, taking time out to spend time with each other and experience new things together is so important. As the kids get older this will become harder to do, and the longer you wait the more you’ll wish you’d done it when they were little.
Take my grandchildren to a Disney park
Give their parents a break for a day and take the grandkids on an adventure. Be warned, they’ll want you to get on all the rides with them, so come up with your excuses in advance. Or just get on that rollercoaster, they’ll be so impressed!
Take my mom on the vacation of her dreams
Remember how she’d have dinner ready for you, even after working all day herself? How she’d take you to your baseball/piano/sailing/Dungeons & Dragons practice each week? Do you think she wanted to sit in the cold while you feebly kicked a soccer ball around, or listen to you toot the same three notes over and over on your new sax? Probably not. Now that you’ve made it, it’s time to give her the experience of her dreams and help her see the world.
Create a family mission statement
If you’ve never sat down and thought about what you and your family stand for, this could be a great exercise. What are your values as a family, and how do you want to strive to maintain those? Identifying what matters to you as a group is also effective at bringing everyone together.
Go camping with my family
Even if it turns out a little more National Lampoon than you’d prefer, going camping as a family is something you have to do at least once. Build a tent together, sit around a campfire, tell stories, and experience the quiet calm of the wilderness.
Adopt a baby
There are so many babies in the world that need the love and care of a good parent. If you have a little bit of room in your life and heart for a child, consider adopting someone who otherwise might not get the best start in life. It will be one of the hardest and most rewarding things you will ever do.
Become an aunt
Your siblings becoming parents is a surreal experience – your baby sister shouldn’t have her own kid, that’s crazy! But watching them turn into parents will make your own relationship with them closer as they grow and mature into their new role. And your little brother having an annoying kid is perfect justice for how annoying he was when he was little.
Take my parents on an amazing vacation
If your parents are anything like mine, they didn’t travel much when they were young. Back then you got married, got a house, and had kids straight away. So showing them the world is the most rewarding thing you can do for them and a perfect way to give back everything they gave to you over the years. On the other hand, it does mean travelling with your parents…
Take my parents on a cruise
Parents love cruises – all the food is paid for, the drinks are endless, there’s activities scheduled, you get to visit different cities but stay in the same room each night… come to think of it, who wouldn’t love that??
Make photo albums for the kids
It’s always surprising the weird snippets kids remember from really early on – a random holiday when they were three, playing on the school swing when they were four. Taking photos and showing them helps keep those memories alive, and as they get older it’s something they’ll show their own kids about how they grew up.
Become a father
Learn just how much you can love another human being by becoming a father to a little tiny one. It will be the most terrifying and rewarding experience of your life. Also, you get to make terrible jokes now!
Read 100 books to my child
Reading to your child is a lovely way to spend quality time together before bedtime. Fill their little heads with new thoughts and stories, and watch as they look forward to your nightly ritual. Reading to them will instil an invaluable love of learning and imagination that will last a lifetime.
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