A Vision for the Family Leading the family What has happened to parenting? Leading the family Have a vision and work towards it

Exercise 1 What is my family like now? What’s my vision or dream for my family?

Have the long term in mind We may have resorted to… An authoritarian approach A permissive approach Bribery Emotionalism A punishment driven approach

Being a Team Together Everyone Achieves More We can be a team by Entertaining together Tidying together Serving together Having fun together Exercise 2 Write down three things that you enjoy doing as a family and that help bring a sense of team.

Leading together Remember life doesn’t stop when you have children. It changes. Don’t stop being a sister, brother, friend, son, daughter and above all….a husband or wife. Exercise Name one thing that you enjoyed doing before the children came along and that you’d like to do again now.

Children may not be very good at listening 3 Leading by example Children may not be very good at listening to their elders, but they nearly always seem to find ways of imitating them

We reproduce who we are not what we say! A Vision for the Family We reproduce who we are not what we say!