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.…
Dream Family: The Family I always Wanted
While not everything in my childhood was bad, very little in my home resembled my dream family. Moments of joy were surrounded by terror and betrayal. In the depths of my shattered…
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 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…
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…
Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it everyday. You have to fight for happiness.
If I had magic wand I would help children. And also help my sister Lidia and my mom Oksana. I would help my sisters and brothers to have good mom Oksana to…
Down Syndrome Family: The Bonus Chromosome
Jack didn’t waste any time in showing us that he and his “bonus chromosome” would do far more for his Down syndrome family than we would ever do for him. You’ll Never…
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…
Acorn Scotchies
Acorn Scotchies We made one of our fall favorites (Peanut Butter Scotchies) into savory bite sized acorns. Fall is the perfect time to make one of our all-time favorite treats in the…