Habits of Healthy Families

Want to know what is healthy in family life? Take a look at this list.

1. Focus on and honor the entire family as a group, including grandparents, cousins and uncles/aunts. Repair bitterness with forgiveness and communicate with those who are far away.
2. Respect each family member and his/her gifts, talents individual part in the family. Do not stick a person in the role of joker, victim, overfunctioner, underfunctioner, etc. Let them blossom.
3. Communication skills that include listening, sharing, thinking, considering, telling stories, laughing, dialogue, etc. Mature families listen more than talk. They have conversations and interactions.
4. Conflict management The difference between healthy and unhealthy families is not the amount of conflict but the way it is resolved. Unhealth families attack each other while healthy families attack problems.
5. Time together It takes time to develop a deep relationship and Quality cannot replace Quantity completely.
6. Affirmation Healthy families affirm each other's successes and point out each other's failures without shaming them.
7. Religious practices The family that prays together stays together. Church attendance does more to protect and prevent problems than any other single factor.