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Since kids these days seem to have a bit of every thing, keeping their attention is a challenge. One suggestion is to borrow on an old theme used during the holidays: The Twelve Days of Christmas. Instead, [start a family tradition], the Seven Days of Vacation (or, the Five Days or the Fourteen Days of Vacation coinciding with your actual number of vacation days). Then, have a special surprise for each day of the vacation as a ?reward? for best behavior that to be ?earned? each day. If it?s video games or DVDs your children want, then watch for bargains on them to save by purchasing them on sale weeks or months in advance of your next vacation. These items aren?t bulky as a daily surprise for the kids each day. As a way to make sure your ?surprises? are exactly what the kids want, [get the kids in on their own ?gifting.?] For a few weeks before the vacation, or as much advance notice of a planned vacation as you have, the kids can ?shop? the toy or electronic ad sections (or whatever-section-of-interest to you children/teenagers) from the many, many sale ads in your local newspaper each Sunday. Have the kids [?make a wish.?] Let the kids know that they will NOT be getting everything on the list, but whatever ?surprise? they get each day of the vacation WILL be a surprise they have chosen for themselves. You would be buying them gifts anyway, most likely, while on vacation. Just consider this their ?before-bought? gifts they would be getting anyway, and it helps, in a small way, to spread out over several weeks (or months) the cost of these sorts of ?vacation-day gifts/extras? you would be buying your children anyway. <iframe src="http://www.kid-friendly-family-vacations.com/c2_google_336X280.html" width="400" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" align="center"></iframe>

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