The family area of life is a more narrowed version of the relationship area. It concentrates more on your immediate family. It deals with how to spend quality time with the people you see every day for big portions of your life. It’s also about teaching your children strong values about life, and your faith, and all the things that are truly important to you.
Keys
- Spend quality time together, such as taking trips, playing games, or having meaningful conversations.
- Teach your children responsibilities so they will have these skills when they grow up.
- Show support for one another through life’s ups and downs.
- Spend birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays together, when possible.
- Eat dinner together, if possible.
- Teach your children manners and respect for adults and other children.
- Keep in contact with your children when they get older and your parents as you get older.
- Keep in contact with extended family on a regular basis.
Websites
www.focusonthefamily.com – A global Christian ministry helping couples and families with issues through radio broadcasts, websites, and other resources based on morals and values grounded in biblical principles.
www.parenting.org – Providing valuable resources, articles and tips offering parenting help in today’s world.
www.pluggedin.com – A Focus on the Family publication offering reviews, articles and discussions about popular entertainment such as movies, videos, TV episodes, songs and games.
www.thetvboss.org – A website created by the TV and movie industries to give parents tools and information to guide their children’s TV consumption.
www.familyreunions.com – A family reunion planning website.
www.ancestry.com – Genealogy, family trees and family history records.
