Family Days: Family Building Values
Despite the stress of me being out of my element, I love vacations and the family days I can spend with my wife, my children and my parents. Building the Days I…
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Family Dance: Family Building Values
State of the art parenting techniques are now coming out of the child trauma therapy field. These newer methods provide instruction for family dance that are out of this world. Family Life…
Home and Family Have Brought me Happiness
It’s not houses, cars, manicured lawns or air conditioning that makes a home. “Home” is intangible but it is one of the greatest feelings we can ever have. Home and Family…
I DO Have a Normal Family. So do You.
What my dear old great-aunts viewed as scandals, I realized were the day to day struggles and challenges found in any normal family. Don’t Tell ME my Family Isn’t Normal! Oh, sure.…
Family Wishes: The Family You Always Wanted
The failures in my future wife’s historical family settings had taught her by default, the things that she would use to construct her own list of family wishes. I Just Wouldn’t be…
Effective Family Trust: It Needs Constant Attention
I can narrow down my wife’s successes in building family trust to two important principles. The first was safety; the second, forgiveness. Forgetting IS NOT a Requirement of Forgiveness One of the…
Effective Family Life: A Day at a Time Adds Up
“Overall you will be strong,” the messenger would have told us. “The family as a whole will only be successful because you work together in maintaining effective family life. Who Would Have…
Effective Family Purposes: Should Families be Art or Tools?
If our homes are built around effective family purposes rather than a beautiful presentation, there is no more shame in getting professional help than in calling in a service professional for a…
Challenges Within Effective Families
The challenges our traumatized children brought into our home trained our other children about challenges within effective families, how life was to be lived and how to succeed against the odds. I…
Patience Within Effective Families: Trends not Steps
We learned that patience within effective families is different for every individual person and every individual family. We learned more, too... Trends not Steps Amy was the patient one. In her…
Effective Family Relationships: And Keys to Success
Because we use our current family as a tool to heal and overcome devastating histories, we spend a lot of time focusing on effective family relationships. Members of our family have…
Family Priorities: When Number one on my List Shouldn’t be
Family priorities are the foundation of a successful family. Of course we’ve all been taught that family priorities should be our first priorities, but sometimes, it’s hard. There isn’t a holiday or…