In an effort to change our little one’s souls from their current state to a more giving one, I wanted to share some information on 7 year old Zach Bonner from Florida.  Zach has been in the news recently for walking 280 miles to generate money for homeless youth in his community.  He raised around $25,000 for his troubles.

What is important for you and I to remember is he didn’t start with this big event.  He started small, with a little red wagon collecting food and water for hurricane victims.  He now volunteers about 400 hours a year.  His time includes volunteering at a guide dog school and helping out at a local hospital (something advocated in the upcoming book Close Kids Forever).

Let’s try and start small with something this Holiday Season.  The suggestion on the CloseKids.com site is an easy way to get it going.  As always, please share your ideas for helping children get involved with charity work through the “Comments” tab on this web site.

My very best,

Brett A Johnston

Greetings fellow Holiday shoppers.  CloseKids.com has come up with some great toys designed to get kids playing together this year.  A toy is placed on our list that does a few simple things.  First, it has to be fun.  Second, it needs more than one person to play with it.  And third, it requires those participants to interact and grow their relationship.

Here is the list of inexpensive and fun toys for this Holiday Season (just click on the name for more information).  Please feel freg Game e to add your ideas to the “Comment” section below and share with the community.

Great Walkie Talkies - These inexpensive two-way radios allow hours of communication fun for your kids at a reasonable price (about 35 bucks).

Frisbees! - That is right.  The age old classic is still a classic for this Holiday season.  By nature, they really need two or more people to play with them, they get kids outside and they are a blast.

Air Hogs Helicopters Laser Tag Game- Wow is this cool or what.  Remote control helicopters that really fly and shoot lasers at each other.  The first one hit crashes to the ground (safely) and the game starts again.  This toy meets all our criteria and is a “FamilyFun” Top Toy of the Year!

I hope this list give you a head start in your holiday shopping and helps YOUR children stay and play close to each other.  As always, please share your ideas below.

See you next time.

Brett A Johnston
www.closekids.com

Hello all, this page is about one thing…children. More specifically your children. ALL your children and their relationship to each other. Have you wondered why some brothers and sisters grow up and stay very close to each other as adults?

So did I. My wife and I have three children.We want them to enjoy a wonderful, life-long relationship together! The simple story of this site is we went out to find an answer to one question. What could we do as parents while the kids were young so they would grow up and be best friends as adults? What we found out was the information didn’t exist. So I decided to research the subject myself. After nearly two years of gathering data and talking to hundreds of siblings, I pulled together my findings in the upcoming book - Close Kids Forever!

Join me each month on this blog as I look at new and exciting ways to connect you children today so they will not only grow together, but their very souls will be changed as well (I can’t wait to tell you what this means). There were many great discoveries that will change some things about how you parent your children! And I’m very interested in hearing your thoughts as well. Here is to our relationship together.

My very best,
Brett A Johnston
Author
Close Kids Forever
www.closekids.com