Stay at home Mums

A very important family member.

Stay-at-home mums, are you all reading this. This post is specially for you all. You are all the most wonderful and blessed member of any household. You have dedicated yourself to staying at home to look into the needs of your family. How wonderful can you all be. Your hearts are full of love and compassion. You are always there for your family. You are all professionals indeed and your expertise in managing the family can never be compared.
Stay-at-home Mums, We Love You All. The world salutes you all!

So the advice to the rest of the family members is, please treat them with love, patience and kindness. Without them, you will not have the love and comfort that you so enjoy when you are at home. Give them a hug, a kiss whenever you come back home from school, college or from work.

This makes love grow in the family.

Coping in the Family

One common family issue or difficulty faced by many families is how to cope with certain family members.
There are different scenarios in the family. Examples are, aged grandparents living together with young members in the family. Another case is aging parents themselves living with their own teenage or grown up children. In the mentioned situations, there appears to be a generation gap which is the root cause of many differences in opinions which results in arguments in the family. There has to be some action taken to stop these unpleasant arguments which is sometimes annoying and can go out of hand if not managed well.
So how do we cope with this problem. It is obvious that the very aged are normally stubborn and will not give-in. They are always right.
Therefore, one party definitely needs to give-in and it has to be the younger member always.
Practice, though it may not be easy initially, to either go with the flow or slowly pacify the situation by not adding fuel to the fire. Maybe, hold a perpetual smile on your face, do not reply to any illogical remarks by the aged or sometimes, cut off your hearing. Do not make this too obvious or arguments can be more heated.

Learn to keep yourself cool and calm and do not exchange any harsh words but say something pacifying. Next, try to slowly change the subject. Do all this with a smiling face.
Practice patience, tolerance and do not show temper.
Always take note that the aged like to nag, are fussy and are very petty. They have their own ways and their ways are always right, not yours.
They cannot change and do not accept changes. Traditional ways are always the best. This where the problem starts.
Most families will have this situation.

A family should learn to cope with the aged.

Family Weekend

All Families must have had a good weekend, hopefully. The weekend get-togethers has been mentioned many times in the posts. Please carry on with these fun together sessions. This is one of the surest ways to get your families come closer together and hence, build up a happy family. When you have a happy family, you will notice that every family has a healthy disposition in their faces. This in turn gives you good health. Make your home the happiest place to be in. A happy family is a healthy family.

We will look into family health and see the benefits it brings to one's family in a later post.

Character uniqueness in the Family

What is character uniqueness, some of you may ask. Simple. Look at all the people or the friends you associate with. Are they all the same. Some of them will tend to be very close to you, ( I do not mean boy/girl realationship here ) Some may be just casual friends.
Ask this question to yourself, 'Why can't everybody in this world be close to each other with the same degree or level of friendship?'

Ahhh.. this will never be so. Why? Each one is made up of a unique character. No one can be the same or is equal to another person. Even identical twins are not 100% the same. There will be character differences if analysed carefully.

Consequences? Yes, indifferences exist among all to cause problems.

The same thing also runs in the family. Each family member has a unique character which leads to disagreements and arguments in the family.

We are preaching about family love, family unity, family closeness. If we apply this theory of character uniqueness, then theorectically, family unity may not be achievable.

Fortunately, the magic word 'Family' conveys love within a unit. The family is ONE. Love, tolerance and patience merge within themselves to form a powerful family binding force.
This family binding force envelops the whole family and makes them one. The character uniqueness of each family member lies in between the binding force.

LOVE BLOSSOMS IN THE FAMILY. HOW WONDERFUL!

LOVE IS ALL OVER THE FAMILY HAVEN.

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Mod Podge Rocks: A Mod Podge card made with bling.

Practical Family Tips

Families, please take note that all family tips posted in this blog are practical tips being studied and applied with good results.

Take some time to apply them where necessary for your families. Much patience and tolerance may be required to actually apply them when necessary.

If you think that there is difficulty in applying some of the tips due to your quick temper, never mind, apply perseverance and determination. Check your temper. Say to yourself, ‘I must calm down’ several times and positively feel yourself peaceful and calm. Smile and paractice the family tips again.

ENJOY A PEACEFUL FAMILY IN HAVEN!

Correcting a Family member

Let's go back to family theory again. Make it a point to apply these theories and see how effective they are. Simple they may sound but are truly verifed and have been practised to produce the desired results.

It is never possible to paint a rosy picture of a family. Inevitably, there are ups and downs in a typical family and the solution here is how well you handle these situations. Always remember one thing, that is, never add fuel to the fire.

One common problem which occurs almost daily when families are together, whether during meal times or just sitting together in front of a TV etc, are comments or remarks, maybe unconsciously made, which offends certain family member or members. Sometimes a child may pass a remark, sometimes even a shocking remark to offend the elders in the family. An elder can also do likewise.
The important question here is, how do the parents or one of the parents, react to this.
Shout! Yell! Scream! Loose your cool and snap back at that family member!
NO, NO, NO! That is adding fuel to the ongoing fire.

So what do we do. Pause for a moment, take a deep breath. and give a smile. This will keep you in calm spirits.
Now, cleverly, make a joke out of that 'nasty' statement and make a subtle stement to correct the situation.
The whole situation becomes normal again and quickly and carefully, change the subject to something of a general interest to get everybody focussed elsewhere.

This is not theorectical and try this the next time you face this situation. It Really Works!

TIPS IN FAMILY HAVEN

The Family weekend

So the weekend is over, right?
I hope and am sure all the families have come out of this weekend rested and refreshed. I wish I could hear a loud 'Yessss' from you all. I think I heard it. Must be my intuition.

Well, I too had a quality weekend, went on a short outing and and spent some time shopping in one of the hypermarkets. It was fun. The main idea was to be together.

So meet you all tomorrow, well... in my blog off course.

HAPPY WEEKEND IN THE FAMILY HAVEN

Weekend in Family Haven

Hi all wonderful families, happy families and beautiful families. The weekend is back again.
Again it is to be reminded, keep the weekend for your family get-togethers. Spend the days together, be together, involve in activities together. Eat together. This will bring quality into your family.
Most of all, come to this Family Haven Blog daily to attain your family comfort. More activities for children, teens and elders are being planned.

Make this your family companion.

HAPPINESS IN THE FAMILY HAVEN

Money and Health in the Family

Money, money, money! Everybody is chasing after money. What about health in the family? Health in the family comes first, and then money. Do you all agree to this?

Well, this can be a very wide subject to be discussed and shall be studied in stages.

For a family to be happy and gay, the family must be in the pink of health i.e. every family member must enjoy the best of health.

What happens if just one family member falls ill? There will be a gloomy cloud hanging over the home. I am sure many families would have experienced this.

Healthy living shall be discussed further in a later post.

Money! Very important too, I guess. Without much money, the family lives with bare necessities. This will also bring not much of happiness to the family.

Do we need to earn in abundance to be happy? Off course no! We need to earn a substantial amount to enjoy the luxuries we so desire.

What about quality time with the family? This will be studied in depth in later posts.

A HEALTHY FAMILY IS A HAPPY FAMILY!