When they see the dad leading a themed night, something happens to the family.

What's up, guys? Jeff and Jeremy here, another episode of Five Minute Fatherhood. Fun

episode for today and a question or how to is how to keep your family spirit up.

Now, this is deeply important, you know, coming off kind of the crisis, or still in the crisis,

actually, but wherever you're at in it, knowing that it's the job of a coach to really make sure that they are conjuring up if there is the right word or making sure they're keeping a pulse on the family's tone and spirit. And we all know what that means, right? You know those days when your kids are down. You know those days when your kids are happy. And you know you probably get more obedience, more joy, more blessing when the kids are doing

well, right? Or when the family feels like it has a better tone and spirit. So it's the coach's job to find that pulse, to craft that, to pull that out of them. And we only have toddlers. So I do feel like that's, I wouldn't say easy in the sense of actually doing it, but it is really easy in the

sense of like, you know, there's very easy, small, actionable things in regards to like, let's run

around. easy in the sense of actually doing it, but it is really easy in the sense of like, you know,

there's very easy, small, actionable things in regards to like, let's run around, let's play a game, let's work on our heart, let's talk to kind of do that. But I do think it's more complex in the older, bigger family realm. And you guys have done a really good job with this, Jeremy. So how have you guys done this. Yeah, one of my favorite tools is if you find that your family just getting bored,

frustrated, bickering a lot, there's a lot of negative

attitudes, my favorite tool for this is to start to introduce evening themes or evening rhythms.

And so the way you do this is, like, that could be game night, craft night, movie night,

story night, Bible night, like different

things that you can do. And you can just declare, Monday is craft night, Tuesday is movie night,

you know, whatever it is. And so you want to get your kids really excited about this. And so you

want to just take a few minutes to think about how to present this thing. And so you guys say,

hey, okay, okay, guys, tonight we're going to do something awesome. We're going to do like movie night and we're going to, this is the kind of movie we're going to watch. And then we're going to usually the thing that really gets them excited is to have some treat or food element involved. You're trying to make it. You're trying to elevate the moment. Yes. Yeah, because it also makes it more immersive for them. All their senses get involved in that night. And so that night has a certain smell, that night has a certain anticipation. And so you get a little surge from when you first introduced the idea. So you say, it's movie night. We're going to do popcorn or, you know, we're going to do like a Bible, or we're going to do like a read-along. And so we going to like read through the Chronicles of Narnia, you know, in the evening and, you know, come up with some kind of food that's related to that. Don't use Turkish delight. That stuff is terrible. It is. Oh, it's so bad. I was so like, what's the word? aghast or offended because I'm such a Narnia fan when I first tried it. I know. I tried it when we

were in Istanbul and it was not, it was kind of nasty. what's the word, aghast or offended because I'm such a Narnia fan when I first tried it. I know. I

tried it when we were in Istanbul and it was not, it was kind of nasty. Yeah. And then, yeah, one of my buddies was like, oh, you got to try the real stuff. And then you try the really authentic stuff. You're like, nope, just as gross. That's right. But some kind of treat, you know, that you can replace that with or whatever. So that causes your kids to get excited. Now what

really gets magical is after two or three weeks of doing this rhythm. So Monday night, oh, it's game night. Yeah, I love game night. It's when we eat like, you know, peanut M&Ms or whatever it is. And drink this special drink. Your kid, they'll get so excited. And so what I'll start to happen,

and you can just, like I said, introduce as many of these as you want. You know, there's seven days in a week, right? You can have up to seven. And what starts to happen is, is throughout the day, your kids have something to look forward to. You all, you kind of have got in the evening a little bit nailed. And so it takes a little bit of creative, a little bit of planning, but after three or four

weeks, then your kids are just like, oh my gosh, it's, it's Tuesday, you know. And so they get so excited about what's coming up. And then you can really experience like fun. And this just causes the family spirits to go up. So, and just get into stuff. Like you get into puzzles, get into certain

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