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A Step-By-Step Guide to a Productive Family Meeting

Feeling some disconnect? Is there underlying family tension? Is the management of household chores lacking? Are big changes coming to the family? How is everyone handling what life is throwing their way? Do we only talk to each other to discuss the next day’s plans? Or maybe you want to prevent your household from going…

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How the Center of Your Family Determines Every Decision You Make

Life is busy. When the pressures of work, school, and extracurricular activities pull us in different directions, it’s easy to lose sight of what truly matters. Brené Brown, a renowned researcher, speaker, and author, offers a powerful framework to help families stay connected and thrive: the family-centered system. This approach emphasizes the importance of identifying…

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How to Establish a Family Quiet Time

Some people saw How to Establish a Family Quiet Time and thought, “Yeah right. There’s just no way. You haven’t been to my house. You don’t know my kids.”  I am just one of the latest work-at-home dads who is amazed at just how much activity, noise, and energy can be expended by my co-inhabitants.…

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10 Tips for Surviving Summer Break

After a long 10 months, many parents (and kids) are ready to walk away from the usual school-year routines. Who wouldn’t want a break from alarm clocks, the morning sprint, evenings filled with homework, school projects and a set bedtime?While this break from the school routine sounds great, most people are creatures of habit who like to have order in their world – even children. Though they may complain about structure, children are used to routines and rituals.

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Is Self-Care the Solution to Burnout?

Do you ever find yourself in a season of high stress? The kids have sports and after-school programs. You and your spouse have increased work demands. The extended family wants time with you, and friends want to hang out. You are overwhelmed with busyness.  Increased stress levels, when not managed, can lead to burnout.  Burnout…

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Steps to a Productive Marriage Check-In

In your marriage, have you ever: Let an issue fester to the point it felt impossible to talk about? Left the kids somewhere because you thought your spouse would get them? Worked late and forgot an important family event? Been disappointed about something but never stopped to work through it? Staying on the same page…

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How To Have More Meaningful Conversations With Your Spouse

Much of your talk with your spouse is “business” talk. Sure, it’s stuff that has to be discussed so things run smoothly around the house day to day, but you really wish you had more meaningful conversations with your spouse. How do you move from “business” talk to deeper, meaningful conversations about your marriage, the…