Time for hanging out together, having fun, and developing a peer network emphasizes friendship in a community. Parents share their own successes and help one another help their children succeed in school. Informal social-support networks emerge. Parents makes friends and find their peers to be supportive and wise. Parents build a local association of interdependent families.
FAST professionals serve as backup support.
Play materials are provided. Parent-child pairs play together within a context of a community of other pairs. Each family wins once. The winning family is showcased, and members receive various prizes. The winner cooks the next week's meal.