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Here are eight ways to bring out<br />
the best in your family.<br />
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Be a Positive-Thinking Parent<br />
Set a tone in your home which gets everyone,<br />
including yourself, thinking, speaking<br />
and acting positively about each other. “Whatever<br />
things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever<br />
things are just, whatever things are pure,<br />
whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of<br />
good report, if there is any virtue and if there is<br />
anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things”<br />
(Philippians 4:8).<br />
Avoid belittling a child by saying, “You’re a<br />
bad girl.” The problem with that kind of negative<br />
language is this: tell a child she or he is bad and<br />
they may, indeed, grow up to be bad. However,<br />
call your children good, talented, creative, and<br />
they will, in all likelihood, grow up to be good,<br />
talented, creative individuals. As a parent, always<br />
accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.<br />
Do this even when issues and problems emerge in<br />
the family.<br />
Mary G. Durkin, author of Making Your<br />
Family Work, offers this sound advice:
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