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Successful Families

By on June 16, 2011


SUCCESSFUL FAMILIES

Balancing Work and Family (dual-earner families)

1.Value Family and family time

2.Strive for a partnership (egalitarian: household chores, child care, and decision making)

3.Maintain work boundaries (put limits on their work and work hours as well as control the “work-family spillover”)

4.Make family fun a priority (spend time together and have fun together)

5.Live simply (maintain a simplified life including limiting children’s extracurricular activities)

6.Make decision proactively (make decisions together and proactively, prior to problems occurring, rather than re-actively)

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