Parenting Children - September 30, 2012

Day 47 - Developing family traditions, routines, and rituals

• traditions create a family identity
• help our children feel they belong
• positive traditions reinforce our values
• our children will be more secure and better able to resist peer pressure when necessary
• daily routines (see Session 1)
• weekly traditions
• family night (see Session 1)
• weekends
• church
• annual traditions
• family vacations
• birthdays
• Christmas and other holidays
• marking the seasons

Question:
Complete the attached worksheet.

From Series: "Parenting Children Ages 0-10"

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  • having a vision for our familu life
  • pausing to think about what we want to achieve
  • what will our children’s memories be of us and their home in twenty years, time?

Goals for our family life

When they are adults, will our children associate their upbringing with:

  • having fun together as a family?
  • being listened to?
  • being able to talk through difficult choices?
  • being encouraged and affirmed?
  • being valued for their unique personality and gifts?
  • knowing they are loved?
  • learning important values of honesty, generosity, etc.?
  • learning to think about others?
  • being prayed for?
  • having clear boundaries for their own protection?
  • seeing kindness modeled?

The importance of play

  • using their imagination
  • learning skills
  • playing on their own
  • playing with others
  • indoor and outdoor play
  • limiting screen time

Did you have fun with your family growing up?  When do you have the most fun together as a family now?

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