Parenting & Encouragement

Family Enrichment

One of the key roles of parents is to encourage and enable the growth of their children. Parenting by encouraging builds self-esteem through focusing attention on the child's resources. Use these strategies for encouraging the growth of your children.

Home Activity	Improving Family Communication • FamilyFaith@Home Family Enrichment A simple handout with some tips to help households communicate more effectively.		View all
Home Activity	Making Meal Time Special • FamilyFaith@Home Family Enrichment Use these ideas in your family to help make meal time an important time in your home.		View all
Home Activity	Collaborative Problem Solving • FamilyFaith@Home Family Enrichment Occasional conflict and disagreement are normal occurrences in family life. Collaborative problem-solving provides a means of handling the changes and disruptions that occur regularly in the family with adolescents.		View all
Home Activity	Encouraging Young Children • FamilyFaith@Home Family Enrichment Encouragement is a skill parents can learn to help children grow in self-esteem. Encouragement focuses on children's strengths and assets, and recognizes their efforts and improvements.		View all
Home Activity	Family Media Ideas • FamilyFaith@Home Family Enrichment Use these guidelines for media use in your home.		View all
Home Activity	Family Meeting Plan • FamilyFaith@Home Family Enrichment Studies show that healthy families communicate well. This fact, by itself, is not exactly a new revelation. Common sense tells us that effective communication is necessary for families to function in a healthy way. Use this process for setting up family meetings in your home.		View all
Home Activity	Making Family Memories • FamilyFaith@Home Family Enrichment Things that family members do together, like family celebrations and vacations, day trips and work projects, build their sense of what it means to be family and provide a reserve of good memories that can be drawn on for encouragement and support when family life gets hectic or hassled. Try these tips for creating new memories and keeping old memories young.		View all
Home Activity	Making Good Decisions • FamilyFaith@Home Family Enrichment Use this five-step problem-solving method called SODAS to think more clearly and base your decisions on sound reasoning.		View all
Home Activity	Negotiating Within the Family • FamilyFaith@Home Family Enrichment Parents and children often have different opinions on how family responsibilities should be shared or family policies enforced. A contract is simply a written statement of what your child agrees to do and what the consequences are if he or she accomplishes the goal.		View all
Home Activity	No TV Tuesday • FamilyFaith@Home Family Enrichment This activity is intended to provide a way for families to gather, pray, and share their faith in order to deepen personal and family spirituality.		View all

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