Holding regular family meetings: Best thing to stay together
The gap present between children and parents can be bridged to a great extent through holding regular family meetings. Children will feel more confident and more delighted being part of such family meetings.
HOLDING REGULAR family meetings can be a very successful method of enhancing family cooperation and closeness. Children will get an opportunity to start appreciating the importance and trust imposed on them through family meetings. Some simple ways to begin family meetings could be as follows:
- Meetings should take place preferably on weekends or on holidays when all the members of the family are present.
- Experts opine timings could be anywhere between half an hour and one hour for each weekly meetings.
- Just like official meetings, an agenda should be present for issues to be discussed followed up with minutes for note taking.
- Ensure phones are off the hook and no TV programmes are on during the meeting.
- Usage of courteous-friendly-polite-positive words in plenty during the meeting proceedings will help the family meeting proceed on smooth lines.
- Decisions taken should be unanimous rather than ‘thrusting’ for making the meetings outcome a grand success.
- Free, frank and openness should be hallmark for conducting the meetings.
While concluding the meetings, usage of words like ‘thank you all’ or ‘thank you very much’ will help children understanding the magic of these great words!
Computers can be of big help in noting down everything transpired from a meeting.
Once the family starts getting positive results quickly through such meetings, ‘holding family meetings’ will become a great success for getting continued for a long time.
Once the family starts getting positive results quickly through such meetings, ‘holding family meetings’ will become a great success for getting continued for a long time.
Whatever gap is present between children and parents will be bridged to a great extent through family meetings. Children will feel more confident and more delighted being part of such meetings. Parents will derive more satisfaction in seeing their children shouldering welcoming responsibilities and sorting out their personal issues through such meets. Overall the society will gain immensely through such meets. Some distortions like ragging in schools-colleges, honour killing in some communities, ‘dowry related issues’... and many related issues will simply start vanishing once the communication channels are strengthened through such meetings. More and more ideas could be built upon for making these meetings a grand success.
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