Finding something your teenager actually wants to do with you can be challenging. Finding something that's fun and gives you a chance to talk, connect, and help prepare them for adulthood? Even harder.
Level Up Family Night gives you 16 ready-to-use activities designed to help you spend meaningful time together while exploring real-life skills like money management, communication, decision-making, empathy, problem-solving, and more.
How this activity book can help:
Make family time more interesting than another night in front of the TV
Start conversations with your teen without forcing "a talk"
Build practical life skills while you're spending time together
Level Up Family Night is a 35-page digital activity book for parents and teens, with 16 activities that combine connection, fun, and practical learning, and these aren't just "play a board game together" suggestions. You'll tackle real-world challenges, creative projects, conversations, and experiences that give your teen opportunities to think, make decisions, solve problems, and learn more about themselves and you.
Each activity includes step-by-step instructions, materials you'll need, an estimated time commitment, discussion questions, and space to reflect on what you learned together.
Teenagers are getting closer to independence, but there is a lot to learn between "I can make my own breakfast" and "I am fully prepared for adult life." [Frankly, I'm not convinced any of us ever finish that curriculum.]
Level Up Family Night gives you natural opportunities to explore some of those skills together.
You'll help your teen think about money and the real cost of living, practice communication and listening, consider different perspectives, solve problems, make decisions, explore their interests, and better understand themselves and the people around them.
At the same time, you're getting something equally valuable: time together that gives you something to talk about besides school, chores, schedules, and whether they've remembered to do that thing you've already reminded them about three times.
Among the 16 family-night activities, you'll find:
Budget Buddies: Create a mock monthly budget and explore income, expenses, and saving.
Island Survival Challenge: Work together to solve a hypothetical survival problem using teamwork and creativity.
Walk in My Shoes: Swap perspectives to better understand each other's responsibilities and challenges.
Supermarket Sweep Budget Challenge: Plan a week's groceries, estimate the cost, then see how your budget holds up in the real world.
The House Hunt Challenge: Explore real estate listings, mortgages and the true costs of buying a home.
The Scenario Decoder: Talk through tricky situations and explore how values, consequences and different perspectives affect decisions.
Respectful Debate Club: Practice disagreeing, listening and seeing an issue from someone else's point of view.
The Personal Finance Project: Explore budgeting, saving, investing and credit.
Capture the Essence: Create photo books that capture how you see and appreciate each other.
Plus activities involving music, strengths, fears, travel planning, learning, volunteering and exploring nature.
As our kids get older, family time changes. We're not choosing all their activities anymore, and frankly, they may have very different ideas about what constitutes a good Friday night. But those teenage years also give us an incredible opportunity. They're figuring out who they are, what they believe, how the world works, and eventually how they're going to navigate it without us making every decision for them.
I created Level Up Family Night to make some of those conversations easier.
Instead of sitting your teen down for another Important Parental Discussion™, you can do something together. The conversation happens along the way. And sometimes you might learn just as much about them as they learn from you.
35-page printable activity book
16 parent-and-teen activities
Step-by-step instructions
Materials and time needed for each activity
Conversation and reflection prompts
PDF format
Instant digital download
Digital product only
Is this designed specifically for teenagers?
Yes. The activities were created for parents and teens, with an emphasis on strengthening your relationship while helping your teen develop skills they'll use as they move toward adulthood.
Are these just games?
No. Some activities are playful, some are practical, and some invite deeper conversation. For example, your family might tackle a desert-island survival challenge one night and explore personal finance or respectful disagreement another.
Do we have to complete the activities in order?
No. Choose whatever fits your family, your interests, and the time you have available. The activities were intentionally designed to be flexible and adaptable.
Choose an activity, see where the conversation goes, and enjoy getting to know the person your teenager is becoming.
Finding something your teenager actually wants to do with you can be challenging. Finding something that's fun and gives you a chance to talk, connect, and help prepare them for adulthood? Even harder.
Level Up Family Night gives you 16 ready-to-use activities designed to help you spend meaningful time together while exploring real-life skills like money management, communication, decision-making, empathy, problem-solving, and more.
How this activity book can help:
Make family time more interesting than another night in front of the TV
Start conversations with your teen without forcing "a talk"
Build practical life skills while you're spending time together
Level Up Family Night is a 35-page digital activity book for parents and teens, with 16 activities that combine connection, fun, and practical learning, and these aren't just "play a board game together" suggestions. You'll tackle real-world challenges, creative projects, conversations, and experiences that give your teen opportunities to think, make decisions, solve problems, and learn more about themselves and you.
Each activity includes step-by-step instructions, materials you'll need, an estimated time commitment, discussion questions, and space to reflect on what you learned together.
Teenagers are getting closer to independence, but there is a lot to learn between "I can make my own breakfast" and "I am fully prepared for adult life." [Frankly, I'm not convinced any of us ever finish that curriculum.]
Level Up Family Night gives you natural opportunities to explore some of those skills together.
You'll help your teen think about money and the real cost of living, practice communication and listening, consider different perspectives, solve problems, make decisions, explore their interests, and better understand themselves and the people around them.
At the same time, you're getting something equally valuable: time together that gives you something to talk about besides school, chores, schedules, and whether they've remembered to do that thing you've already reminded them about three times.
Among the 16 family-night activities, you'll find:
Budget Buddies: Create a mock monthly budget and explore income, expenses, and saving.
Island Survival Challenge: Work together to solve a hypothetical survival problem using teamwork and creativity.
Walk in My Shoes: Swap perspectives to better understand each other's responsibilities and challenges.
Supermarket Sweep Budget Challenge: Plan a week's groceries, estimate the cost, then see how your budget holds up in the real world.
The House Hunt Challenge: Explore real estate listings, mortgages and the true costs of buying a home.
The Scenario Decoder: Talk through tricky situations and explore how values, consequences and different perspectives affect decisions.
Respectful Debate Club: Practice disagreeing, listening and seeing an issue from someone else's point of view.
The Personal Finance Project: Explore budgeting, saving, investing and credit.
Capture the Essence: Create photo books that capture how you see and appreciate each other.
Plus activities involving music, strengths, fears, travel planning, learning, volunteering and exploring nature.
As our kids get older, family time changes. We're not choosing all their activities anymore, and frankly, they may have very different ideas about what constitutes a good Friday night. But those teenage years also give us an incredible opportunity. They're figuring out who they are, what they believe, how the world works, and eventually how they're going to navigate it without us making every decision for them.
I created Level Up Family Night to make some of those conversations easier.
Instead of sitting your teen down for another Important Parental Discussion™, you can do something together. The conversation happens along the way. And sometimes you might learn just as much about them as they learn from you.
35-page printable activity book
16 parent-and-teen activities
Step-by-step instructions
Materials and time needed for each activity
Conversation and reflection prompts
PDF format
Instant digital download
Digital product only
Is this designed specifically for teenagers?
Yes. The activities were created for parents and teens, with an emphasis on strengthening your relationship while helping your teen develop skills they'll use as they move toward adulthood.
Are these just games?
No. Some activities are playful, some are practical, and some invite deeper conversation. For example, your family might tackle a desert-island survival challenge one night and explore personal finance or respectful disagreement another.
Do we have to complete the activities in order?
No. Choose whatever fits your family, your interests, and the time you have available. The activities were intentionally designed to be flexible and adaptable.
Choose an activity, see where the conversation goes, and enjoy getting to know the person your teenager is becoming.
Format: Digital PDF (35 pages)—download it, print it, or use it right from your device.
Created by Michelle Arseneault, Certified Life Coach.
