Family Meeting and Appreciations
I want you to create an Appreciation Board this week and begin creating the habit of looking for the best in each member of your family.
Encourage your kids to notice and write down what they appreciate about their siblings and parents.
Have a conversation with your kids describing the Family Meeting format and the Appreciations and try to keep the conversation between 5 and 8 minutes.
This is your chance to “practice” condensing what you want to say and leaving more time for the kids to talk or ask questions.
Question:
How did my children respond to the idea of Family Meetings?
How did the Appreciation portion of the Family Meeting go? Were their any surprises? If so, what were they?
If you are already holding Family Meetings and you use the appreciation board, please share with us what you notice about your family and your children and how they treat each other since you started appreciations.
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We have been doing appreciations for a couple of years now and our 5 1/2 yr old son notices the good in each of our family members throughout the week…on a very regular basis. And it ALWAYS feels so good to hear him say such nice things!
How my children have been treating each other since we started Appreciations:
http://thetransformationsnowball.blogspot.com/2010/03/effect-of-appreciations.html
A question and a link…
My question is about young kids and the appreciation board…? They can’t read, do we try to depict in some way, or just leave it until they’re old enough to read?
Link: About this week’s meeting: http://shiftandtweak.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/meeting-again/
So rewarding! Meaty stuff- and just like dense protein, highly nourishing:-)
Giving appreciations at family meeting helps me focus on what I want to see in my 7 yr old and encourage it, like having the courage to so “no” to doing something she’s uncomfortable with, in this case, answering the phone, not knowing who is on the other end. This trepidation confounded me until I saw the positive in it, voiced it, and now she’s developed the courage to answer the phone!