Segueing to the Next Section: Making Your Own Family Calendar

As you segue from this section to the next, it could be wonderful to create a homemade calendar together. You can do this monthly or yearly. You can illustrate a monthly Values Vision and label meaningful days that help you have an inspirational organized visual reference. One recommendation is to use the American Humanist Association’s Ten Commitments to inspire the monthly drawings for your calendar. To get to twelve months, you might choose to illustrate and highlight the values of darkness and light on the two solstice extremes: June and December. 

As you move through the upcoming chapters, you will find yourself ready to add many details to your homemade calendar. Also, as children are learning about time, and organizing their sense of it, a daily visit to the calendar which can include coloring in the day that has just passed. Instructional fun. Monthly family themes can be repeated annually and can be fun on the tongue.

Here are examples:

Justice January
Fairness February
Make-it-yourself March
Artistic April 
Mindful May
Joyful June 
Juggling July
Awesome August
Surprising September
Outgoing October
Neighborly November
Dancing December

The Ten Commitments

This life, this world, is our central defining focus. Each one of us is responsible for the collective welfare of humanist, other beings, and the resources of our shared planet. We value freedom, reason, and tolerance, and it is our responsibility to develop this heritage for ensuing generations. The Ten Commitments represents our shared humanistic values and principles that promote a democratic world in which every individual’s worth and dignity is respected, nurtured, and supported, and where human freedom and ethical responsibility are natural aspirations for everyone.

American Humanist Association Center for Education