Nurturing a Healthy Family Brings Smiles

To be a parent is a high calling, a huge blessing and responsibility. It’s more than meeting the child’s physical needs but nurturing and guiding them too. In the book Released from Shame, Sandra Wilson explains clearly how a healthy family functions within three categories.

1. Maintenance-

Meeting physical needs of food, shelter, clothing and medical care.

2. Nurturance-

Meeting emotional and relational needs for acceptance, affection, affirmation and time with others.

3. Guidance-

Meeting intellectual and spiritual needs for instruction on such enormously diverse topics such as how to tie a shoe and how to know God.

Smile if you have been blessed with children. Smile if your parents fostered you in this type of environment. Smile if you now have this wisdom to pass these love qualities onto your children.

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