Sam Barnes, editor of Star Tribune West, fondly remembers playing Tripoley on weekend evenings, when everyone gathered around the dining room table. “Those were the best of times -- and the most memorable.”

He also writes about Putting Family Night, Monday, March 7. "An evening to enjoy dinner and fun with your family. Cook dinner together; play a board game; watch old home videos; bake cookies; start a family scrapbook; read together; hold a family meeting; take a walk."

Barbara Carlson is quoted as saying “It's critical, that families stop and reflect on how they are spending their time, and whether they have -- like the proverbial frog in water slowly rising to a fatal boil -- unwittingly let the thing they value most, their time with their children, get nibbled away by competing activities.

"We hope that families will seriously talk about the time they spend together," she said. "We're not anti-activity. We know kids have to be physically active. It's just a matter of when too much is too much."

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