Family Health and Family happiness

A Healthy Family means a happy family

You have a beautiful family, right? So you can enjoy health activities with them. Go for family walks, have a family game in your own garden. What about family gardening? Yes, mow the grass together, do some flower planting, beautify the garden and ask for ideas from your young minds. You will be surprised at the type of creativity that is in the minds of your children.
This kind of family activities will bring the family closer and build close relationship and love within the children.
In the last post, I mentioned about closeness within the children is of utmost importance.

Keep the whole family healthy at all times. Some health tips for the family are listed below :

Move More
Get your family involved in physical activities. This should be carried out regularly.
Remember the word ' regularly '

Maintain a Healthy Weight
Your physical activities should help your family achieve this.

Eat a balanced diet
This is self explanatory.

Reduce stress
Take plenty of time, especially during the weekends, to have leisure activities. Remember, even children can suffer from stress. Show a lot of affection to your children. Be close to them and give them the assuring comfort.

Take Quality Nutritional Supplements
Today, there are plenty of good supplements both for the adults and children.

Put Out the Cigarette
For heavens sake, quit that habit if you smoke. A bad influence to your growing children. Children tend to take after their parents. What the parents do is generally right for them.

Keep an Optimistic Outlook
Have a positive mental approach. Happy people have lower chances of becoming ill. And being happy makes one feel good.

To conclude, Healthy family means happy family.

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!

Tolerance in the Family

To recap again, there is no perfect family. Why is this so?

Lets do a family analysis. In the previous post, it was mentioned that the parents, generally, are the ones who steer the ship to the right course. They need to have the navigational aids to do this. One of the navigational aids is tolerance. If there is an absence of tolerance between both the parents, then the ship will drift in the sea with no direction.

The most ideal case is for both the parents to have a high level of tolerance. Unfortunately, this is never the case. Most often than not, only one of the parents will possess this tolerance and also to what level, is again another matter.

There are instances when both the parents do not possess tolerance at all. This kind of families normally will have much grievances between the members.
There will be no communication but arguments.

A high level of tolerance exercised by the parents will calm the family and any child, who has a temper will be mellowed down. Tolerance, together with patience, is the best navigational aid to steer a family to peace and happiness.

This subject on tolerance will be continued in later posts.

There are other family navigational aids which will be discussed in later posts.

STEER THE FAMILY IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

Week end in the Family Haven

Beautiful weekend, was it? Always target fruitful family weekends. Weekends are supposed to reset and refresh your minds to face the coming week. May it be for the children who are going to school. They too need to unwind and refresh their minds. Those who are going to work and especially the housewives, who really need the weekend rest and unwind.

I hope all families are following the Family Haven daily to improve and enhance the family relationships.

HAPPY WEEKEND IN THE FAMILY HAVEN

A Good Morning in Family Haven

How should we start the family morning? How happy and fruitful the rest of the family day is going to turn out to be will greatly depend on how the parents start the family morning.
Both the parents are the captain of the ship and it depends on them to stir the ship to the right course.
So what can the parents do to start a happy day?
Simple. Inject Positive Vibes into the family the first thing in the morning. It need to be just a simple smile. Give a beautiful smile and a greeting to your kids. Maybe a loving hug for your daughter. Spotting a sweet loving smile, wish them a happy day in their school or office. Give a loving kiss to your wife and vice versa, in front of your children. This radiates happiness to the whole family.

Do this simple loving ritual daily and see the happiness build-up in your family.
Try it now.

HAPPINESS IN THE FAMILY HAVEN

Family Interactivity

Family Interactivity! I mentioned this in one of my previous posts. I need to elaborate a little on it.

Without interactivity within the family, the family, even if there are more than two or three children, the family is 'dead'. By this I mean, every body keeps to himself/herself and it will seem as though no family exists in the household. It will not be a fun family.

Oh, what a waste! So much of effort taken to raise up a family, I'm sure you all know the sleepless nights that you had to undergo, and now there is no interaction in the family. Why on earth was such a family raised. For heaven's sake, enjoy your blessed family life. There are people out there crying to have a family.

Can't you just sit down with your family a few minutes a day and just talk and talk and talk. Then laugh and laugh and laugh. So difficult!

GET YOUR HAPPINESS FROM THE FAMILY HAVEN.

Are there perfect families ?

The saying is, "there are no perfect families", or put in another way, no family is perfect.
I have seen perfect families, no kidding, yes, I can vouch for it.

You need certain ingredients in a family in order for them to be perfect. Now, what do you think could be these ingredients ?
Let me tell you. They are simply a high degree of patience, tolerance, love and understanding. The greatest of them all is Love. Patience will eliminate quick- temper.

How are these applied in the family ? Both the father and mother must have these traits. If only one of them has it, then sorry, it does not work. For this reason, perfect families are few but they exist.

If both the parents have these virtues in them, automatically, it is passed down to their children.
Now we have a whole family which possesses these golden virtues and you will actually see a perfect family.

For those who are hot-tempered, please read this.
For your information, quick temper or hot-tempered is the most feared trait to have. It causes harm in families. For those who have this trait, please exercise calmness in yourself. If you feel that you are going to explode, pause and take in deep breaths and breath out slowly. It truly works. Try it the next time. Also it is best that you stay quiet without saying anything. These are exercises that you must work out in times of trouble.

STRIVE FOR HAPPINESS IN THE FAMILY HAVEN.

Family Types

I call this family types. All of you see many families around you. They could be your own children now married with a family. Your relatives and their families. Your friend's families. I have been mentioning the word 'families' so many times.
Why? Yes, it is a beautiful word. A wonderful word. A word that denotes happiness.

Okay now, let me talk about family types. There are four types I believe. Let's analyse the first type.

Elderly parents with fully grown-up and matured children.
In this kind of families, because of the maturity in all the family members, the household tends to be quiet. Conversations are more serious and the grown-up children tend to spend much time on their own. If they are married with kids, then the grand-parents will have something to look forward to.

Generally, much respect can be seen among the family members. The elderly parents tend to keep to themselves and normally go out on their own.
Happiness, trust and respect holds the family together.

FAMILY HAVEN, THE PLACE FOR ALL FAMILIES

Happy children means happy family

Lets talk about happiness among the children. This can be seen if you have two or more children.
Make sure there is plenty of communication and interaction between the children. It is wonderful to see them together, having discussions, fun and laughter. Today, with the introduction of the computer, it's good to see them playing games together. This enriches the relationship between the children and prepares for closeness when they are adults. This is of utmost importance in order to have a close-knit and a happy family.

Family Happiness in the Family Haven

Happiness! That is what every family should strive for.
Happiness flows down to the children from parents who love each other and in themselves are happy as a loving couple. The love of the parents for each other should be seen by their children. This in turn showers love for each other in the family. Hence a happy family is born. Love for each other in the family brings blessings.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IN THE FAMILY HAVEN