1. Build a Family Altar
Every homes that will be successful must have an avenue
on how they communicate with their creator ''God''. This
family altar is not the altar in the church but medium of
communicating with God at night and early in the morning.
You may read from your bible or daily manner to teach your
family about the word of God. This give parents the avenue
to impact knowledge into the life of their children and put
their feet on the pat they should follow. It allow them to
commit their ways into God's hand.

2. Enjoy Each Other
Marriage is very sweet when it involved to people who
understand all it takes to build a happy home. The essence
of a happy family is that they truly uplift each other and that
all comes down to how they treat each other. Parents come
home and the kids are happy to see them and when kids
come home, the parents are happy to see them. In any
happy family, the absenet of one person will be feel by other
member. When all the family member enjoy the home, the
house will be peaceful.

3. Put the Marriage First
The relationship and marriage must come first. Set a real
example of love. There are many families where kids, Job
and many other things always come first in marriage. Then
they become substitute providers of love. That's an unfair
burden to put on a kid. It's also bad for families because
kids will move out of the house eventually and the marriage
will last for long.

4. Create Time for Stories
Create time for story enable family to share their experience
and knowledge from their working place, and chidren to
share their experience from school. When your kids come
home, ask them what happened in school and have a story
for them. In the evening or weeked, you can give them a
story and allow them to ask question. this enable them to
be free and more closer to each other in the family. This way you give your kids something to look forward to. When you are not around, they will feel your absent. The great bane of family life is boredom and that is what leads to dysfunction,affairs, and kids wanting to be with their friends over family and father or mother keep friends mother family.


5. Put Family Before Friend
Family must come before friend before it can be successful.
Parents must understand that caring for kids also has to be
fun. Give rules, but understand that kids need fun, too.
When kids get bored and listless, they start looking for
excitement out of the home and that is when friends becomemore important. Friendship is important, but subordinate to family.

6. Eat Together
Families that eat together, stay together. It's that simple.
Family dinners are essential to be taken together Have a
minimum of four family dinners per week. When a family eat
together, it brings more closeness and understanding. It
even serve as an avenue to train up children on table
ethics. It discourage the habit of men staying long with their friends or irrelevant issue outside.

7. Play Together
Have one or two unifying activities that the family does
together on a nightly basis. He suggests bedtime stories foryoung children or reading a chapter from a novel to an olderchild. Couple must create an avenue for playing together.You can hardly see some couple playing together, the wife. even find it difficult to discourse with the husband. Anymarriage that will survive, husband and wife must have
close rapport.

8. Free Communication System
There must be a good communication system at home in
which everyone will understand and communicate freely.
Imagine some homes where wives find it difficult to
discouse with their husbands and children are not free to
discouse with their fathers. Such home may find it difficult
to build a successful home but in a happy family, there are
more flexible, open lines of communication. In happy
families, all the members of family unit are able to
communicate openly..

9. Keep Your Voices Down
Remember that children thrive on stability. "There has to be
a calm environment at home. Talk to your kids, give them
strict rules, and punish children when necessary, but don't
lose control and yell. If you yell at kids, that shows you are
out of control and you create a nonpeaceful environment.

10. Never Fight in Front of the Kids
Parents must try all their possible best to avoid fighting in
the presence of their children. While some fighting or
bickering may be inevitable, try to keep it away from the
children. If your kids see you fight and argue, apologize and
say, 'We are sorry you had to see it. Daddy and I just had a
disagreement, but everything is OK now.'"

11. Don't Place Work Above Your Family
Many homes have been destroyed today because of the
husbands or wives over concentration on work more than
family. All work and no play does worse things to a family
than make it dull. "If you are away all the time and don't
prioritize your kids, your kids will internalize feelings of
insecurity thereby make them to believe that they are not
valuable enough. It makes husband or wife believe his or
her spouse love work more than him or he

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