"Building Character Starts with Getting Your Kids To Talk."

Parenting Tips by Jean Tracy, MSS, for grades K-6:

This Parenting Skill Comes from my Family Meeting Book:

How Can Family Meetings Make Your Family Better?

Family Meetings bond the family together. Besides planning fun events and solving problems, family meetings help each member work together.

3 Ways Family Meetings Make the Family Better:

• Each member promises to do something positive and practical.
• The promise must help the family in some way.
• The promise must be written down and posted on the refrigerator as a reminder.

In our last blog each member promised to take one action to make the fishing trip and picnic happen. Each member posted what they would do on the refrigerator. The next step is to do what they promised. This is what it means to be a family team.

Why not hold Family Meetings at your house? They're fun, they're easy, and they build character too.

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Here's to your parenting success,        

Jean

Jean Tracy, MSS