How do you know if you’re making your family happy and healthy? If you’re using the tips in this guide, then you can be sure that you are!
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How do you know if you’re making your family happy AND healthy? In all honesty, there are no guarantees that anything you do is actually doing that, but there’s a few good tips to use to set them up for happiness and a healthiness.
The bright side to this question is that you’re already on the right path if you want to make sure that your family is both happy and healthy. The guide below will help you to find out which changes you need to implement so you can make a positive impact on everyone’s lives in your family.
Check out these great tips for making your family happy and healthy!
Have Dinner Together
Kids who often have dinner with their families tend to be happier and healthier. Kids who do this regularly have also shown better manners, a bigger vocabulary, and even a healthier diet.
If you have kids who are particularly fussy, then you may dread dinner time and this is understandable. That being said, you need to try and make sure that you find meals that work for everyone. Forcing the same food on your children time and time again may not be conducive to a happy family feeling. In fact, your kids could grow to resent dinner time, in general. Work with them, rather than against them if you want to see better results. This could include giving them what they want for snack post-dinner, or adding tastier vegetables to their food so they don’t realize.
Share Family History
Sharing your family history with your kids is a great way to ensure that everyone not only feels happy, but may also help them understand family health issues that run in the family. This will help them to build self-confidence and it will also help them with their intellectual well-being.
Sharing stories of your family history will help your kids understand you as a person and will help them understand themselves better. This, as a result, may even help them gain some respect for the past. Eventually, you will find that each of you is feeling happier and healthier on an emotional level. But if your parenting skills are not ready to have this kind of serious conversation with your kids, then be forgiving with yourself and try again at a later time.
Reduce Stress
This is a lot easier said than done, but it’s worth trying to give it a go. A lot of kids throw tantrums and whine when they don’t get what they want from their parents, but this can be difficult if the parents are always busy or at work. So between the tiredness of parenting and the forty hour work weeks, parents tend to suffer from excessive stress.
Therefore, reducing stress should be a part of your regular routine–daily and weekly. If you can actively try and reduce the amount of time you spend stressed, then this will help you be more present in the moment so you can spend more time with the people who truly matter to you. And that will inevitably lead to a happier and healthier family.
Become Part of the Community
It doesn’t matter if you volunteer at a local food drive or spend time as an aide at a senior citizen daycare center–you need time for yourself, away from the family. Taking time for yourself is usually a difficult thing to do, but it is necessary for you body, mind, and soul. A stressed you, becomes an overworked you, and that will eventually lead to a tired you. All in all, you will not be you anymore thus making your family suffer for it.
By taking a time out to volunteer for the needy will help you check off several boxes: (1) you will feel better and more grateful about your own life, (2) bringing your child to volunteer with you will help them become a better person, and (3) you will bond together and decompress together. These are great results to look forward to and if you take this step, you and your family will so much happier and healthier than before.
The Takeaway
Making your family happy and healthy can be easily done with a few simple steps. But if you’re still not sure, try one or two of the steps above to try getting to that frame of mind.
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