Characteristics of Family Life

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Families are important for children growing up because they give love, security and stability. As a parent, we can feel overwhelmed by this responsibility and want to strive for perfection which is probably impossible! One of the things that supports family life is commitment to each other. Your child needs to feel that they are part of the commitment and that they have a place to play in everyone looking after each other.

A nice way to explore this is through acts of kindness.

Acts of Kindness: Talk together about this and try to have a week where every day everyone in the family has to give an act of kindness for another family member. It can be really simple things like:

• helping them tidy up

• making them a drink they will enjoy

• telling them a joke to make them laugh

  paying some one a compliment

The great thing about acts of kindness is they are just as good for the person doing them as the person receiving them!