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What is the Million Minute Family Challenge™? The Million Minute Family Challenge is a grassroots effort that encourages interaction and communication among family and friends through playing board games. The goal is to encourage at least 1,000 families or groups in each of the 50 states (that’s 50,000 families/groups) to play a board game together for at least 20 minutes (that’s 1,000,000 minutes) from September through December. Why participate in the Million Minute Family Challenge? When parents play board games with their children, they are accomplishing more than providing entertainment. Playing board games teaches lessons in sharing and communication. It also helps establish a secure and trusting relationship between parent and child, which is a key part of a child’s development. Why play board games? Board games are the perfect fun activity for family and friends of all ages. They help the youngest players develop social skills including following rules, fair play and good sportsmanship. As children grow, board games can help sharpen vocabulary, spelling, math, creative writing and critical thinking skills, all under the appearance of having fun. How can I participate? Families and groups are encouraged to block out 20 minutes in their busy schedules to play a board game. Teachers can invite students to play a game in the classroom. Everyone can participate by joining and logging the number of minutes they played board games at www.millionminute.com. How do I determine the amount of minutes to log? Logging minutes is simple! You calculate the number of minutes EACH GROUP plays games for. If you have one group of 5 people playing a game for 30 minutes, you log 30 minutes. If you have two groups of multiple people playing games for the 20 minutes, then it is 2 times 20 minutes for a total of 40 minutes to log. The number of people in the group does not matter. It's all about the time each game group played games! Who Supports the Million Minute Family Challenge? Patch Products, Inc. organizes the Million Minute Family Challenge. Additional support is received through the following companies interested in encouraging family interaction and communication: KOA, Great Wolf Lodge, Blue Harbor Resort, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Generations United. What are people saying about the Million Minute Family Challenge? CLICK HERE to read comments from people who have participated. |
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