Distance Pursuit Games

Distance Pursuit Games

Home Distance Pursuit Games Distance Pursuit games are dysfunctional patterns caused by impaired abilities to maintain a healthy separateness and connectedness in relationships. If we get this right, everything else about the relationship will be right. Healthy...
What is a Healthy Teenager?

What is a Healthy Teenager?

Home What is a Healthy Teenager? What makes a healthy teenager? – NOT an easy question to answer, but here’s my best attempt… The Healthy Teenager… Has been a happy child Has access to at least one healthy, well-adjusted parent Has available...
The Formula for a Happy Child

The Formula for a Happy Child

Home The Formula for a Happy Child What makes a happy child? This is my favorite question to answer for several reasons… I am a grandpa who loves to make kids happy It’s the most important question – kids are our future Happy kids grow up to be happy...
The Formula for a Happy Child

Family Meeting – A Suggested Format

Home Family Meeting – A Suggested Format The primary goal of the Family Meeting – To create and maintain a well-functioning, organized family that meets the needs of all of its members. Following is a suggested format for creating such a meeting....
What is a Healthy Teenager?

What is a Dysfunctional Family?

Home What is a Dysfunctional Family? A dysfunctional family is a family that does not function in a way that meets the needs of it’s members. It is important to point out that no family functions perfectly all the time, just as no family is dysfunctional all the...
What is a Healthy Teenager?

How to Create a Close Family

Home How to Create a Close Family How do you create a close family? To begin with, it is always wise to make sure you are prepared to start a family. Perhaps Stanford University’s 12 Simple Tests for Expectant Parents will help you decide. Here are a few of my...