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5 things that will help strengthen your family.
Strengthening a family is an endless process and it is difficult to overdo it. Therefore, I will share with you 5 things that will help your family unite and feel emotionally closer to each other.
1. Come up with a special sign.
This could be a greeting or a sign indicating that you are now consciously close to another person.
My family has a special sign to say “I love you.” To do this, you need to squeeze the person’s hand 3 times.
And it turns out to be such a little family secret.
2. Hang photos of your whole family around the apartment.
And not just the cute baby/children. There should be photographs of you as spouses, the whole family, each individually.
How it works?
The self-esteem of everyone in the family then increases. The value of family and everyone begins to be realized more often — after all, we rarely think about it every day. But when we see our family in a photograph from the outside, we return to this thought more often.
3. Start a family tradition.
In my parents’ family, it was a tradition to watch a movie every evening.
In my family with my husband, a tradition is slowly taking root — in the evening to tell 3 joys of the day.
My husband and I tried a lot to establish a tradition, but it didn’t last long. One of them was “to…