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V: Ideas for Topics
- Update. Be sure to communicate all the nuclear and
extended family events. The Meeting Leader can be the one to
do this. Who has a graduation coming up? Did a cousin get engaged?
Give birth? Is somebody moving?
- What did you learn/experience/do exciting/different this
week? Give every family member a chance to participate.
It can be anything from discovering amoebae to getting a new
client you've been going after to finally making the basketball
team. (Maybe what you've experienced is a new brownie recipe,
the results of which you'd like to share with the rest of the
family!)
- Raise issues that affect everyone. Where will we go
on the family vacation? (And when? What if it means somebody
misses a scout trip, or a Sweet 16 party?) Will we use Granddad's
inheritance to add a room to the house or to buy a new car?
(And if so, for whom?) We can't send everyone to camp this year;
how will we decide who goes? (Maybe some of that inheritance
can go to camp!)
- Raise individual problems and offer solutions. Remember,
you're a team. Think about how you can help each other out.
- Talk about Hot Topics -- intriguing issues that are
not personal but about which some of you have a strong opinion.
Examples: politics, ecology -- this is your chance to express
yourselves!
- Celebrate your successes! Give each other verbal "pats
on the back." There is no team like the Home Team!
- Your ideas here:
MAY
ALL YOUR FAMILY MEETINGS BE HAPPY ONES!
GOOD
LUCK!
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