Steps to Better Family Communication
Family connection contains a united relative body based on the number of the family members. Therefore, lack or absence of communication among them weakens this body and makes it increasingly easy to endless troubles.The victim in the first place is children, by affecting their future psychological health and their behavior towards others. For this reason, every mother should protect her family against troubles and make all the family members live comfortably. So, they would participate more in the family activities by sharing interests and worries. Following these 5 steps may help you get results:
1- Creating opportunities for conversation and dialogue while your children are gathering for an evening movie, for example, you can start a conversation by asking them about the best thing that happened during their day or the worst thing and how they dealt with. As a result, the conversations open new views for a productive communication and give them the opportunity to speak their minds out.
2- Maintain family meals when family members meet for at least once a day around the dining table, the family connection becomes stronger. Moreover, this establishes the values of accuracy. It also enhances their feeling of family warmth.
3- Competitive trips by assigning one day of each week or month for the family trip. This could be at a park, a museum, a scientific center, a gallery or a restaurant.
4-Use technology the internet has become one of the key components of today's society. So, try to make the best use of it to develop family communication. For example, create an e-mail for the family, so that all the family members can send to it useful material, news or personal experience. Therefore, these messages can be gathered in the form of a weekly or monthly magazine to be shared with the family members.
Maintain the religious customs and social traditions like the regular visits to relatives and keeping in contact with them especially in Ramadan and feasts. This strengthens the family relations and establishes the respect of occasions and values in all the family members especially children