Spring Break's Barely Started and the Kids Have Nothing to Do

Perhaps these ideas will help keep your children occupied and happy despite not traveling during the break from school.

Now that Spring Break for Forsyth County Schools is underway, are your kids bugging you yet? Are they already saying, "There's nothing to do"? Here at Patch we mean to help, and will use this chance to give you some ideas of places they can go and things they can do if your family didn't head out of town for a vacation. Do you have another, or even a better, idea? Add it to the comments below. Hike, bike or roll on the Greenway: There's miles and miles and miles of Greenway, at Big Creek Greenway, not to mention the skateboard park located at the trailhead at Fowler Park. If the kids are young, you'll have to stick with them every step of the way. But if they are responsible high school students, the last thing they probably want is …

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Spring Break Still Offers Hometown Activities for the Kids

Check out nature exhibits while attending a plant sale or take the kiddos to the movies.

With just a few days left of Spring Break, your kids probably want to make the most of their time off. Here are a few ideas to help you keep them from driving you crazy. Area 51: It's Roswell, Georgia, not New Mexico, and this location has two 18-hole golf courses in "The Fringe" outside, a few other games, and the Aurora Cineplex 10-screen theater. Hop, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Gnomeo and Juliet, and Rango are your best bets for kid-friendly fare. 5100 Commerce Pkwy., Roswell. Studio Movie Grill: Head east down Holcomb Bridge Road and you'll find this movie theater/restaurant, which allows you to have dinner and a movie at the same time. It's a good choice for today's slight chance of showers. 2880 Holcomb Bridge Road, …

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Hitting the Road For Spring Break

Road trips are the way to go, no matter where you wind up.

Ahhh spring break… Time to get away from it all. But several years ago, I learned there’s more than one way to take a road trip. It was the spring I decided to slow down and stay home for a change. On that first day of the break, my son and I went out to lunch in Roswell, just the two of us. It was a beautiful afternoon so we ate outside. Though I knew it was only lunch, I wanted it to last all day. I think I was a little afraid that our time together just might not be exciting enough for him any more since he was “growing up.”  Then it hit me; I’d been going so fast through his days of school, tests, sports and friends that the few minutes we had together during the week were stolen between dinner and bedtime. I watched him eating his …

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