One of the most endangered species in the world today is “family time.” In fact, you could make the case that there are too many kids being raised in families who do not know the meaning of “family time.”

Traveling down an interstate on a long car trip used to be good “family time.” Anybody remember “The Alphabet Game” where kids and grown-ups could work their way from A to Z by getting the letters off the highway signs? Did any of your families sing together those awful camp songs that have a hundred verses? At the very least the back seat could go to war with the front seat and the jump seats. Fights over what music the whole family had to listen to; explanations as to the answer to the question “Are we there yet?” every two miles—-that was the stuff family trips were made of.

Then cam…