Family help at the right time can feel a lot like the relief of military reinforcements in the heat of battle. I am reminded of these inspirational words spoken by Winston Churchill: “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills.”
On hearing those immortal words, some of you might find yourself saying, “That sounds exactly like my family.”
Rudyard Kipling once wrote about families, “all of us are we–and everyone else is they. A family shares things like dreams, hopes, possessions, memories, smiles, frowns, and gladness.”
A family is a tribe held together with the building blocks of love and the mortar of mutual respect. A family should be shelter from the storms of life, a port of safety when the waves of life begin to crash on the shores of our lives. No person is ever alone who is a member of a family. Reinhold Niebuhr says, “Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.”
In the following pages we offer practical help and advice that will give you the tools to build the kind of family relationships that will carry through to the next generation.
- In looking for family help, examine the following traits that are connected with strong family relationships.
- In addition to the keys to building strong families, read these practical parenting advice in the area of parenting teens as well as general parenting tips that will help create a healthy environment for your home.
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