Ten Ways to Build a Healthy Family
- Take care of yourself so that you can nurture your child.
- Love your child for the person he or she is.
- Spend time with your child each day.
- Teach your child about the world around him; spend time listening to what your child is learning.
- Communicate consistently with your child's teachers, coaches and peers.
- Discuss information about relationships in a way that your child understands.
- Honor and respect the love between your child and your child's other parent.
- Discipline in age appropriate ways, clearly, and with rules and consequences that the child is aware of and included in discussing.
- Have dinner together as often as possible and make it a pleasant, sharing time.
- Have age appropriate Family Fun nights where everyone in the family is together and shares a good time.
You can check the Montgomery County PTA website for additional programs and events.
