Having a Healthy Family
Many of us already have a healthy family, which is good. Healthy families are important to growth, mood, and to a child's psychology when growing up. Healthy families aren't free from conflict and trouble though; for a family to be healthy some fighting is expected.
How to Better Your Family Life
Creating a better family life, from any level of relationship, is a long process. It takes time for families to change their core mechanics. Whether it is just with a sibling or with the whole family healing and strengthening takes time. It will usually take months and years to get to the level that you want it to be at.
Strengthening your family life takes time and commitment, but I'm here to help speed up the process by offering you different methods to help heal and strengthen your family relationship.
Strengthening your family life takes time and commitment, but I'm here to help speed up the process by offering you different methods to help heal and strengthen your family relationship.
Healing
If you don't have that good of a family relationship then this is for you.
Healing broken relationships takes longer than strengthening, but is totally worth it.
The first step to the healing process is getting everyone on the same page as you are. Talk with your family about how you feel like your relationship with them is like and ask or tell them that you would like to have a better relationship with them. Once your family is on the same page as you are, and wants to heal the relationship, you can really get going. The next step is to fix the relationship. Start avoiding conflict, being nicer, and start replacing "you" with "I" when assigning blame, this makes the person that you are talking to feel less attacked. Play games with your family, as well as invite them to do things with you that foster good relationships.
Healing broken relationships takes longer than strengthening, but is totally worth it.
The first step to the healing process is getting everyone on the same page as you are. Talk with your family about how you feel like your relationship with them is like and ask or tell them that you would like to have a better relationship with them. Once your family is on the same page as you are, and wants to heal the relationship, you can really get going. The next step is to fix the relationship. Start avoiding conflict, being nicer, and start replacing "you" with "I" when assigning blame, this makes the person that you are talking to feel less attacked. Play games with your family, as well as invite them to do things with you that foster good relationships.
Strengthening
If you already think that you have a good relationship with your family then you should look here to find out how to create and foster an even better relationship with your family.
Similar to healing, the first step to strengthening your relationship is to get your family together and let them know that you want to have the relationship grow stronger and for them to accept and agree to that. The next steps are a bit easier than when trying to heal the relationship. As with healing you need to do things that foster a good relationship with your family, such as: having daily talks with your family, playing board games and video games with them, going on outings, helping clean, helping cook, and just being friendly with them.
Growing and strengthening your relationship with your family also takes some sacrifice on your part. You can't just do things that only you like with your family members. You need to do things that they like too, and oftentimes that doesn't line up with what you like. Just suck it up and do it with a happy heart, and if your sibling, parent, friend, or relative sees that you are having fun while doing the activity that they chose out, it will make them happy and proud of you.
At the start of every week, take turns with your family members choosing activities to do on each of the days, this will make everyone feel like they get to have some choice or control in what their family does, and will greatly improve relationships.
Similar to healing, the first step to strengthening your relationship is to get your family together and let them know that you want to have the relationship grow stronger and for them to accept and agree to that. The next steps are a bit easier than when trying to heal the relationship. As with healing you need to do things that foster a good relationship with your family, such as: having daily talks with your family, playing board games and video games with them, going on outings, helping clean, helping cook, and just being friendly with them.
Growing and strengthening your relationship with your family also takes some sacrifice on your part. You can't just do things that only you like with your family members. You need to do things that they like too, and oftentimes that doesn't line up with what you like. Just suck it up and do it with a happy heart, and if your sibling, parent, friend, or relative sees that you are having fun while doing the activity that they chose out, it will make them happy and proud of you.
At the start of every week, take turns with your family members choosing activities to do on each of the days, this will make everyone feel like they get to have some choice or control in what their family does, and will greatly improve relationships.
How to Keep the Relationship Healthy
Being in close proximity isn't enough to really strengthen your bond with your family, you need to have good communication with your family members. Talk about what to do, your day, or really anything else. Communication is key to having and keeping a good relationship. To keep the good relationship stable. help each other out with chores, homework, or really anything else. Communicate about any issues that you have, and especially communicate about the things that you like about them and the things that they do well.
Resolving Conflict With Certain Family Members
The first step in resolving conflict with a certain family member is to apologize. It doesn't matter if you didn't do anything wrong, you need to apologize for whatever they thought that you did wrong. After you apologize and ask for forgiveness, then you can talk to them about what happened. if they start getting riled up then you need to apologize, leave, and try again some other time.
Improving Our Relationship With God
Improving our relationship with our heavenly father doesn't take as much time as doing so with family on earth. God is loving and forgiving, and he will not stop trying to get us to come to him. You need to first realize that you are in the wrong and that you need to go to God to heal the wounds. To heal your relationship with God you can look into the Bible and s[end time in scripture. Going to church is also a good way to help heal your broken relationship with God.