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Parenting

Managing the Media in Your Home

By Patrick Ward
July 14, 2008 Comments (0)

What would your life be like if television, the internet, and computers suddenly didn’t work any more?  The amount of uneasiness you have in reaction to that question is a good indicator of how influential electronic media is in your life.  Most of us remember the days when there was no Internet and the television offered about 12 channels.  What is more, we had to get up and change the television channels manually!  Now there are so many media and entertainment options so easily available, it feels overwhelming.   In fact, it seems as if the American family home is inundated by media overexposure. Continue

Family

Traits of Healthy Families – Part 1

By Patrick Ward
May 3, 2007 Comments (0)

The summer season is entering its final stretch now.  Families will be trying to squeeze a few more valuable vacations in before school starts.  Sometimes August feels like “the calm before the storm” because the new school year often hits like a strong wind that scatters the children and blows apart the parents’ schedules.  I want to encourage you to take what time is left this summer to shore up your family relationships and overall functioning.  Now is the best time to change and improve things in your family, before the frenetic pace of school begins.  Rather than worry about what’s going wrong in your family, its better to focus on what you want to go right. The best way to do this is to understand what healthy families do, and emulate these traits in your own family. As Thoreau said, “…you only hit what you aim at, so aim high.” Continue