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15 Secrets To Have A Happy Family
15 Secrets To Have A Happy Family
Does yours fit the portrait of a happy family? If not, don't despair. Now
WebMD is letting you in on a few of the secrets to a happy family. You,
too, can experience some of the domestic bliss that seemed previously
reserved just for TV families.
The bottom line, he says, is that when you come home, your kids have
to come first. "You must drop everything you are doing and always
come home with something to share with your kids, whether a story or
even the smallest vignette," he says. "This way you give your kids
something to look forward to. The great bane of family life is boredom
and that is what leads to dysfunction, affairs, and kids wanting to be
with their friends over family."
There are many families where kids always come first, says Boteach.
Then they become substitute providers of love, he says. "That's an
unfair burden to put on a kid." It's also bad for families, he says,
"because kids will move out of the house eventually."
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