Family Balancing

Family has a way of balancing. Whether you see your family every day, visit them often, or have a family of your own, know that each time you are together you help each other enormously.

What are some of the ways that families balance each other? Well, their hellos and goodbyes and their hugs and their kisses are meant to foster strong self esteem and strong immune systems. Their caresses and their tears and their feelings and their emotions are meant to help you build strong character. Their cooking and their caretaking and their support and their love are meant to help you live.

But, family does not stop there. Their togetherness and their community help you go out into the world and build an extended version to compliment the family that you belong to. Once out in that world of extended family you begin to bring back to your own family just what it needs; reinforcement so that it can continue to play the role of family balancing.

It takes a village to raise a family. It takes the family itself, its extension to the outside world and the individual family members who come and go through the doors of a home making sure that their participation in their family is on par with that family’s values.