One of this week's family focus tips we are trying this week comes from William Gladwell Foundation's booklet, "Building Family Communication (Family Matters) published just this year. We are focusing on positive and negative verbal and non-verbal messages that family group members convey to one another and why it helps to build a more fabulous family when we increase positive messages and decrease negative messages. Here are a few quick guidelines that we are trying to keep in mind as a family this week:
“To be effective in a close-knit group such as a family, communication must be believable and trustworthy. When someone avoids the truth, he or she loses the respect of the others….All family members must be open, candid and trustworthy.”
