New Year’s resolutions for the whole family
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Making your family better, stronger, more harmonious may not require a complete overhaul, but rather a few strategic tweaks. Here?s a roundup of the resolutions you and your family should make now to ensure a fabulous 2016!
1. Hold family meetings. Give everyone in the family?including the kids?an opportunity to be heard. Provide the space for feuding family members to voice their feelings in a setting that models respectful communication and conflict resolution. Brainstorm beefs. Strategize solutions to stumbling blocks. You?ll get greater cooperation when decisions are made mutually.
2. Say no to sarcasm. Scorn is just anger thinly disguised with a sneer. So, cut the contempt. If you?re mad, be mad. Communicating your feelings honestly and openly makes room for problem solving. Sarcasm complicates true communication and squeezes out solutions. 3. Laugh. A lot. Laughter fills up the family?s good-will tank, making your family more resilient in tough times. It also paves the way for positive parenting. What was it Mary Poppins said" ?A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.? Well, corrections are more easily digested when coated in honey. So, lighten up a little.
4. Focus on quality, not quantity. If I told you to spend more time together as a family, you?d probably retort that with, ?There?s just no time.? I get it. Life is busy. But, building those vital bonds of belonging?whether with your kids or your spouse?is accomplished in moments, no...
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