Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Things You’ll Need:
- Loving mind, heart, and kindness and openness.
Step1
Remember the time of your wedding and loving and joyful spirit
First, evaluate the current state of your family with following perspectives: Loving, Openness, Sharing, Trust, Communications. These are some, but you can bring more depending on your situation.
Step2
As a parent, please remember that children will learn and adopt pretty much everything from you. Maintain loving and peaceful relationship between spouses all the time. This may not be easy, but remember you are the first level model that will influence your kids. Never put yourselves into debate or arguing situation in front of kids, especially young kids. It will create very unstable and detrimental conditions you will regret later.
Step3
Make very intentional effort to be a better listener, not speaker. Be a good listener will require a lot of patience and wisdom, and will give the other person such a positive impact, both for spouse and kid(s). You show your patience and want to teach this to them, also.
Step4
Please remember that everyday may seem to be the same, but it is not. Everyday is different in terms of occasions, conditions of hearts, and encounters through out the day. This is why we need a prayer/quiet/supporting time before going to bed. Modern people tend to not to do more of this. This is must, and this time of day would be how each family member can share their existing love, continuing support and sharing of literally everything - good, tough, difficult things. Prayer for other party will be the most powerful tool, spiritual tool. Especially, Christian family will further make prayer time as a daily devotional time together with others.
Step5
Time of wedding and plan
Be patient and practice the above steps at least for a month. And evaluate your family situation later. You will see the differences.
One more thing. If your family is not religious, you can have a regular Family Conference to discuss and share a lot of things and suggestions. Family conference may sound to be a little 'formal', but it helps. Members of family will be more participant. Pick one person (kid) to be a recorder, so that you all can review what was discussed before. It works positively!
Comments
danoh123 said
on 12/18/2007 Judy Ford,
How can I join the forum?
JudyFord said
on 12/17/2007 Please join us in the parenting forum. Thanks