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II: The Purpose of the Family
Meeting
Here are some of our suggestions:
- To gather up the threads of the last week (or last
two weeks or month - whatever you decide).
- To bring up difficult subjects that somebody/nobody
wants to deal with. These can range from the sublime to the
ridiculous. (Okay, which one of you scraped the side of the
garage and ran over the tree lawn? Who is visiting great-grandma
this weekend, even though she doesn't even know your name anymore?
Does anyone have any ideas about how to get Jason, 10, to shower
more than once a week?)
- To reconnect once a week and find out what's happening
in everybody's lives and in the lives of the extended family.
Who is graduating? Which college did she choose? Did he get
that summer job? (We have six kids, two of them dorm and one
is married. I have to keep a scorecard to remember who I informed
when one of their 20 cousins gave birth or got engaged.)
- To make decisions together that affect the whole family.
Where shall we go on our next vacation? (Speaking of which,
when shall we go on our next vacation? Will Anne give up her
best friend's Sweet 16 party or will Alex miss his scout trip?
Or is there another solution?) And how shall we spend Uncle
Will's inheritance -- on a new addition to the house or a new
car? (This may be the kind of "problem" to which you
feel like answering, "Whatever!")
- Your ideas here:
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