Family Meeting Lesson 2
Did everyone complete their Family Activities for this Lesson?:
- Compliment Tracking
- Family Strengths Entries
- Optional: Praising the Positive Opposite
Welcome to week 2’s Family Meeting! This agenda is to help you organize your meeting and family practice session. It includes skills to practice from the week’s lessons, plus SFP activities each person did during the week.
NOTE: We recommend you open Family Meeting Agendas on a laptop, computer or tablet during your meeting, so you can record entries to the Family Activities portions.
Family meeting rules:
- Use this agenda. One person talks at a time.
- Everyone gets a chance to talk, if they want to.
- No one puts anyone down.
- Keep it short and sweet!
- Each week, during your Learn & Earn Lessons, each family member is asked to share ideas. The Family Meeting is a time to review those ideas.
At every meeting:
- Compliments: Say something you like about each person
- Calendar: List activities or events each person has scheduled for the upcoming week
- Past Business: Discuss your SFP activities progress and rewards
- New Business: Discuss current SFP goals and practice skills
- Value Message: Share pro-social family beliefs
- Have Fun! Games and treats/snacks
Repeat This Week’s Power Phrase:
Looking for daily – and complimenting – the good in family members helps me like them even more, and helps them behave better.
Agenda Item #1: Compliment Tracking
Review
This week you learned to daily look for the good, avoid criticizing, and how to give, and track, your reinforcing compliments.
Directions
Look at the tracking form below. (If there are few entries in the table, ask family members to go to the Family Activities section and enter their information; or enter in ideas during the meeting. You can also use a paper Compliment Tracking Form.)
Print-Friendly Family Tracking Sheet:
Family Compliment Tracking
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Agenda Item #2: What Makes Our Family Strong
Review
All families have strengths – things that you like. Likewise, all families have challenges and areas where they can improve and become stronger and happier together. It doesn’t matter what your family make-up is — a single-parent family, a 2-parent family, a stepfamily, a family with foster siblings, or made up of friends and relatives — ALL families have strengths. And with a bit of skill-practice, even a seriously troubled family can become loving and strong! Begin by focusing on what is right and good about your family. Then add to it!
Directions
Read and discuss your Family Strengths table, below. If there are no entries, or missing entries from family members, your family members can go back to the Family Activities section and make entries in “Family Strengths”, or you can complete this as a family.
Print-Friendly Family Tracking Sheet:
Family Strengths Tracking
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BONUS ACTIVITY: Praising the Positive Opposite
Directions
This bonus Family Activity is very helpful to practice. In this activity, you identify one negative behavior you’d like your child to change each week, and then practice ignoring that behavior and praising the positive opposite of that behavior whenever you see it. For example, if the behavior is “fighting” the positive opposite would be “getting along well.”
Print or open this informative PDF to use it as a guide during conversation.
And, print this tracking sheet to track your progress in this new skill!
Print-Friendly Family Tracking Sheet:
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The Family Conversation Jar
This activity will make your next family meal time fun, and reinforces bonds between your whole family.
Print the PDF below, or open the webpage to see instructions.
