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How Important Are Relationships In The Home?

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Humans are relational vacuums

Life Is Relational

 

It is impossible to exist outside of or apart from relationships and close ones involve people we see, talk to and hear daily. We work with and depend on these people.  The relationships we have with them can be very good, very bad or somewhere in between. These close connections change us and enable us to influence change in others.

Every person will move through many different relationships during the course of their life and each one will leave its mark but none will be as important as the relationships we have in the family and there are many reasons why this is true. [Read more…] about How Important Are Relationships In The Home?

How Do Parents Earn the Trust of Their Children?

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We naturally gravitate to people we trust whether they are good or bad.

Safeguard Trust And Children
Won’t Require
So Much Protection

Trust. Without it, everything falls apart, especially in a family setting. When it is assumed, our most important relationships are bound to fail and that leaves us feeling desperate.

Children can explore the world confidently only if home remains a safe place to recuperate from life’s inevitable bruises. When parents can be trusted to offer acceptance and understanding instead of criticism and rejection, they help insulate their children from the bad elements of the world. Unfortunately, kids often resort to the world because home has failed them. When children don’t develop a bond of trust with parents, home becomes an emotional prison from which they will do anything to escape. [Read more…] about How Do Parents Earn the Trust of Their Children?