• Encourage more family time
• Schedule one family night that is recognized by the
entire community with no scheduled activities
• Teach our children to care
• Encourage good balance between work and play
• Help people to take responsibility for actions, self
and family
• Address growing lack of respect for each other
• Re-teach values to our youth
• Address problem of everyone being too overscheduled
• Help parents focus on the right issues to develop character
in their children
• Offer classes
for caregivers
• Offer education for parents and families (parenting
skill classes, parenting and family workshops, communication
skills for families like Strengthening Families and character-building
programs)
• Offer more community-wide drug prevention initiatives
that include parents
• Encourage parents to model healthy behaviors
• Need to believe
that our children are really good
• Build deeper commitment to children
• Need to alleviate stress
• Get back to basics of faith, friends and family
• Reserve Sunday for church and family
• Promote family-centered activities
• Build awareness that affluence can mask problems surrounding
children
