What's Inside Matters by Hazel Roberts

Author:Hazel Roberts [Roberts, Hazel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2019-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

Gathering together can enable individuals to share tips and advice. Because day-to-day life is hectic, there can be a lot to discuss and go over. Just listening is sometimes enough, sharing news and views and analysing the day’s events. Understanding each other, caring and being compassionate, mean a lot. Things don’t always run smoothly with families; teenagers will be teenagers, black sheep do exist and family members can clash, but on the whole it’s kinder, if possible, to be as one. A problem shared is a problem halved, as they say.

If your family doesn’t have all the right answers and needs a bit of guidance or support, then it’s not too late to start researching ways in which to find it.

Make your own family self-help/guide-book/planner/ journal; call it a workbook. It could be useful and fun at the same time. In the journal, add some cool suggestions to put into practice. Record your strongest memories – you could put anything in it, good or bad.

Your family traditions, things you remember as a kid, old customs, recipes or guidelines that your family have followed in the past… photos, tips your grandparents taught you – maybe even things they remembered from their grandparents too…

If something goes wrong or someone goes off the rails a bit, help them and discuss the matter together.

Don’t ignore them or give up on them. It’s never too late to get back on track. Support at home, as well as at school, is crucial.

Whatever you decide to do, put your heart into it. Focus on improving the life that you all have, make a commitment to each other. I have always found that talking and sharing, listening and caring, understanding and relating to each other is what family is all about. It worked in our family and still does today (actually more than ever).

As well as working on your journal, you can all spend more time together, too.

A Few Tips on How to Make A Start

Turn off the TV.

Turn off the phones, for a little while anyway.

Give everyone a chance to talk.

Carry out some family customs and traditions.

Have a Pizza Night.

Have a Supper Night.

Look at old photographs together. This can be fun.

Get a record player.

Make some bread.

Go for a walk.

Watch a film together, with popcorn or ice-cream.

Listen to old songs. Play board games. Do some drawing/crafting/painting.

Bake cakes together.

Plan some general ‘get together’ time for the future and see what develops. Even once a week is a start.

Have a tea, cake and agony-aunt session (discuss problems in a Q & A style set-up).

Cook a Sunday roast.

Play Monopoly.

Have a creative/making evening.

Sit by candlelight and talk.

Meditate.

Have a girls’ night in.

Enjoy lounging in pyjamas and reading.

Have a clothes swap and chitchat.

Have a bath, light a scented relaxing candle.

Listen to a podcast.

Eat chocolate.

Dance.

Sit in a quiet place; give your creativity time to flow.

Create a café atmosphere; set the table with candles and wine.

Make a cooked breakfast.

Have afternoon tea.

Listen to a motivational speaker.

Have fun, because you will never, ever be as young as you are today.

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