Family Meetings a must!
We can help each member of the family fulfil their individual needs in a positive way by holding weekly family meetings. Family life is becoming more and more structured. Each day is filled with school, after-school activities, needing to be bathed and fed, parents struggling to get food on the table and complete the daily household chores. Often it is left to screen time to keep everyone quiet. The main loser in all of this is the time and space to interact and communicate
Discipline - It's not about punishment
At some point, parents are faced with choosing what to do when children exceed the limit, break an agreement, or step outside the rules. If a parent chooses punishment, his underlying belief is that children must be made to feel so bad about their misbehaviour that they will never do it again. Unfortunately, when we punish, we also push our children away. We create distance in the relationship. This becomes clear when we remember moments from our own childhood when we were
