Tips to build family unity - Parenting Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
The two best ways I can think of to help build family unity is to serve each other. So to like do service projects with your children for their siblings or for your spouse. I think that's a great way to build unity. Also just spending time together I think is very important. So you know going on the swing set together, going on a walk together, going to the park, or I also think that praying together as a family is a wonderful thing and establishing a good bedtime routine or regular time where you can kind of snuggle up with your children and just kind of express your love and appreciation for each member of your family to give hugs and kisses and just show them natural kind loving affection.
Video 2 Transcript
My tips for building family unity are to learn how to listen to your kids and truly respect and value their ideas and seeing things from their perspective while offering your perspective. I think it's important to teach mutual respect in a family. I think always making sure that they know that they're loved, which that sounds cliche but it is true, and the way they know that they are loved is through quality time together. Put down your phone, pay attention to them, focus on them and their needs, try not to be distracted. I know that's a lot easier said than done, but I think listening to your child, taking an interest in the things that they're interested in, even if it's not maybe your first choice, loving them, family prayer, family scripture study, and wholesome recreational activities make for great family unity.
Video 3 Transcript
Something that created a lot of unity within my own family growing up was eating dinner together as a family. It wouldn't happen every single day of the week because, you know, everyone had a different schedule, but just trying to do it once or twice a week made a huge difference in my family. And the more often it happened, just the more happy we were, and we were more loving towards one another as the week went on.
Video 4 Transcript
One of the greatest ways we've found to have wonderful, incredible family unity is to teach our children that their siblings are their best friends. Our children, of course, have had outside friends, many of them through the years, but our priority has always been to create and develop friendships within our family. If some of our children have issues with one another and they're not getting along, we put some great focus on that to help counsel and talk with them and teach them ways to resolve conflict and to forgive and move on and re-establish that love and friendship again with each other. That is the highest priority in our family culture, is to develop unity and maintain unity within a family with open communication. We get together weekly on a Zoom call with all of our children and it's wonderful to stay connected. That is the key to unity, is staying connected.
