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

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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

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