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Strengthening Families: Better Communication Through Better Listening

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Communication is a vital part of successful family life. Positive and effective communication will help your family save time by clarifying information and helping family members avoid conflict and misunderstandings. It also helps family members feel understood. Not to be forgotten, effective communication among family members creates an environment where…

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Teenagers: 3 Ways to Help Kids Improve Communication Skills

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Teenagers—How does a mother explain how her tween daughter remembers every detail of an episode of iCarly, but can’t for the life of her recall where the hamper is? What’s really going on with an adolescent who quotes verbatim the whispered conversations of faraway classmates, but insists that she…

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Quote: The Duty of Love

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Sometimes love is simply listening. According to Paul Tillich, "The first duty of love is to listen." This printable is an inspiring quote teaching us that the most important tool in a relationship is listening. We as families can create better communication through listening. Print this quote and stick it…

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Family Survivor Printable

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Family Survivor is an awesome family activity to explore each member's communication style and build communication skills. Your family is stranded on an island and has to build a shelter out of newspaper and tape in just a few short minutes. There's not talking allowed while building! After the shelter…

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Google+ Hangout: Communication

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Learn how to be a super hero family by unlocking your family's 11 super powers. In the fourth Google+ hangout in our "Becoming a Super Hero Family" series, MomItForward and our guest experts will be talking about "Communication". On the path to finding the super in our families,…

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