children need to feel the safety of belonging to a unit or tribe, where all members are valued and their contributions appreciated.

Before we can expect positive results, we need to recognize why it’s importa

A family is most productive functioning as a unit. Think of a family as a healthy potted plant. A plant is made up of small individual stems and branches that, as separate entities, appear fragile and unsteady. But growing and developing together, they gain strength and protection from one another. The plant and the family is healthier and grows more when everyone cooperates and shares the resources as well as environment. Their roots are intertwined and form a secure foundation that withstands being knocked over and occasionally neglected.

Our families are much the same. We need the strength and support of one another to make all of us stronger, more personally productive and more resilient to life’s ups and downs. As parents, we can strengthen these family bonds by sharing our positive attitudes and work goals with our children. The children need to feel the safety of belonging to a unit or tribe, where all members are valued and their contributions appreciated.

Before we can expect positive results, we need to recognize why it’s importan

But growing and developing together, they gain strength and protection from one another. The plant and the family is healthier and grows more when everyone cooperates and shares the resources as well as environment. Their roots are intertwined and form a secure foundation that withstands being knocked over and occasionally neglected.

Our families are much the same. We need the strength and support of one another to make all of us stronger, more personally productive and more resilient to life’s ups and downs. As parents, we can strengthen these family bonds by sharing our positive attitudes and work goals with our children. The children need to feel the safety of belonging to a unit or tribe, where all members are valued and their contributions appreciated.

Before we can expect positive results, we need to recognize why it’s importa

t. Their roots are intertwined and form a secure foundation that withstands being knocked over and occasionally neglected.

Our families are much the same. We need the strength and support of one another to make all of us stronger, more personally productive and more resilient to life’s ups and downs. As parents, we can strengthen these family bonds by sharing our positive attitudes and work goals with our children. The children need to feel the safety of belonging to a unit or tribe, where all members are valued and their contributions appreciated.

Before we can expect positive results, we need to recognize why it’s importa

e all of us stronger, more personally productive and more resilient to life’s ups and downs. As parents, we can strengthen these family bonds by sharing our positive attitudes and work goals with our children. The children need to feel the safety of belonging to a unit or tribe, where all members are valued and their contributions appreciated.

Before we can expect positive results, we need to recognize why it’s importa

children need to feel the safety of belonging to a unit or tribe, where all members are valued and their contributions appreciated.

Before we can expect positive results, we need to recognize why it’s important for all members of the family to contribute time and skills toward household tasks. Our immediate intention is to help relieve excessive personal household responsibilities and to share the duties fairly. An overwhelming workload for one person or two becomes manageable when shared by three, four or more. But the goal should be greater than simply to divide the workload. It should be to learn life skills and assume personal responsibility.

We are on a family road trip

Regardless of prior experiences or the expectations your family now have that someone else will take out the garbage and feed the dog, don’t give up. Make it into an adventure rather than drudgery. Soon good habits will become automatic action and provide more cooperation and less contention in your home.

Think of your goal to get your family to work together