If your family could use some relationship help, try any or all of these approaches and just wait for the positive results:
- Have dinner together: Turn off the TV and sit down at the dinner table! Dinner should be a time for the family to catch up on each other’s lives, not the latest episode of America’s Got Talent. Talk about everyone’s day, have serious chats about learning and working and living. You can even cook or do dishes together as a family activity.
- Play games: Don’t let your kids convince you that three hours of Grand Theft Auto V is just as worthwhile as a family game of Monopoly. Games of all sorts—board games, card games, trivia games, word games, sports, and yes, even certain video games—provide a medium for human interaction that is bound to be fun. Games are not to be underestimated.
- Travel: Whether it’s a day trip to the mountains or a month on the Mediterranean Sea, traveling as a family builds a strong sense of solidarity, and gives everyone fond and funny memories with the people they most love. Being able to reminisce about good times you spent with your family is a gift that keeps on giving.
- Listen to each other: That goes for parents as well as kids. While kids should always obey their parents, because they support the kids and know better, the likelihood of obedience is higher when parents show their kids respect as well. If your child has a complaint, about home life or school life or your parenting or anything, listen to it and heed it. Set an example of open-mindedness so that your kids can be open-minded to the advice you give them.
- Help each other: A family that helps each other is so much happier and healthier. Whether that’s reading your son’s English paper, helping mom chop and cook potatoes, picking up your sister from school, picking on your brother less when he’s sad, or giving your daughter the same treatment you would give your son, a sense of teamwork and fairness is critical for a good family relationship.
- Consider family therapy: Don’t take this as a horrible sign—tons and tons of families seek therapy to help heal their tensions, large and small. It’s a place where everyone can get their thoughts off their chest and discuss them without fighting, which can be critical to reviving familial love and closeness. Do not consider it an acceptance of defeat; think of it more as a new beginning.
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