Family Fun – Day 1

1. Strong families show appreciation and affection to each other:
People in strong families care deeply for each other, let each other know this on a regular basis, and are not afraid to express their love. This looks like : caring fore each other, friendship, respect for individuality, playfulness and humour.

Questions to discuss as a family:
How do you show appreciation to each other? Do you have any family rituals?
How does it affect each of you when you hear encouraging words from each other? What difference does it make to your life as a family?

Craft idea: Make a ‘family appreciation bucket’ together either out of paper of decorative supplies. (Pinterest or
https://www.bucketfillers101.com/pdfs/PaperBucket.pdf)

Using your family bucket: put your bucket somewhere you hang out as a family. In day to day life, anyone can write spontaneous little notes of praise, affirmation, thanks, encouragement, appreciation etc for an individual family member. Or have a special (weekly?) family session where everyone can say something about each other, which you write on a slip of paper and clip onto into the bucket. When you attach new notes, collect the old ones somewhere to read at a later date. By developing a habit of cherishing each other, your invisible appreciation buckets in your life will stay filled.

Think of a positive characteristic skill that you want to affirm.
“What I really like about you:….”
“You are really good at:….”
“I think you’re really special because:….”

Avoid physical characteristics like “beautiful curly hair” etc as they are not something the person can do anything about anyway.

Tomorrow we will have a family game that will encourage positive interaction between family members!

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