How to Build a Healthy Family
It is Thanksgiving dinner. Your entire family, including aunts,
uncles and grandparents sit at the dinner table. Uncle Ed brings
up your embarrassing moments from middle school while your
children bicker over pieces of turkey. The meal erupts into a
battle as the gravy boat spills all over grandma’s lap.
Is this type of family behavior common? Yes, every family
experiences the joys and obstacles of what it means to be a
family. However, you crave to have the best family possible.
This leads you to wonder how you can improve the relationships
in your family.
There are several aspects of family relationships. As a parent
you would like to focus on your parenting skills. What are the
secrets of successful parents? What defines success? How do
other parents deal with family issues such as raising kids,
maintaining financial resources, and enjoying life at the same
time?
Clue yourself into these burning questions by listening your way
to a more cohesive family. There are over 80 titles that deal
with parenting and family issues on Learnoutloud.com. You can
listen to these audio resources in the car while you drive your
kids to basketball practice or at work when you are on your
lunch break. You can also spend family time together listening
to these proven techniques.
A great way to improve you parenting and family relationship
skills is to model your family after highly effective families.
Listen to The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families by Stephen
R. Covey and 7 Habits Family Collection to help your family
communicate more effectively with each other. Or try Zig
Ziglar's classic on parenting Raising Positive Kids in a
Negative World. Zig draws on years of experience and the latest
research to provide inspiration to parents everywhere. Looking
for a step-by-step program to follow? Listen to 3 Steps to a
Strong Family by Linda Eyre. The three steps involve a family
legal system, economy and traditions. By understanding and
implementing these three steps your family can experience more
tranquility and emotional connection.
Other great family resources include: Being a Happy Effective
Parent by Effective Learning Systems, Five Needs Your Child Must
Have Met at Home by Ron Hutchcraft, and How to Raise Happy,
Healthy, Self-Confident Children by Brian Tracy. These audio
learning resources offer tips, techniques, and methods on
raising children. Any parent would benefit from listening to
this parenting advice. In addition, mothers should also check
out the MommyCast Podcast which discusses a variety of
"Mommy-specific" topics.
Family relationships can be fluid in nature. Therefore, it is
important to continue to study and employ family building
techniques. These audio learning resources can improve your
parenting skills and help you to build a happy family even when
the gravy boat spills.
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About The Author: Jillian Gregory writes for LearnOutLoud.com, an online portal for educational and self-development audio and video material which can be found at http://www.learnoutloud.com.