Creating Positive Family Communication

Posted by Susan Epstein on June 29th, 2010 at 09:09am

“Tommy, how was camp today?”

“OK”

“What did you do?”

“Nothing.”

Sound familiar?

This week,

Put your first family meeting on the calendar or start doing them again if you have stopped.
Put a blank piece of paper titled “Agenda for Family Meeting” on the fridge and put a few items on it to discuss. Make them fun, such as….What night should we rent a movie? What kind of pizza should we order? Where should we have our picnic on Sat? Make sure that these are age appropriate.
Meetings should be no longer than 15 to 20 minutes and you should come to some sort of resolution at the end.
Keep a notebook of the minutes (what you decided together) and put it in a place where family members have access.
Follow through

Want to have the “Best Family Meeting on the Block”? In my book, Take Back Your Parenting Powers System, I dedicated an entire chapter to family meetings and how to use these to effectively communicate with your kids.

http://parentingpowers.com/takebacksystem.htm

Please leave a comment on how your family meetings are going.