Uplifting Relationship Resources

“While the product placement on “Jon & Kate “often seemed excessive to me this season ….As soon as Kate said she was going to have “family game night” with the kids in Monday’s episode, we went to commercial, and what was the commercial for? You guessed it: family game night….”

Have you been to the movies lately? ….Tickets on a weekend night range from $7-upwards of $10, …With the price of a night out at the movies so high …. encourage families to spend an entertaining night at home. For $40, which is less than a night out at the ….you can have a wonderful night of games, dvds, and good food….

“They have traded expensive nights on the town for nights at home … swapped fancy-schmancy dinners for home-cooked meals or a quiet spot in the park with a picnic and their favorite board games.”…..

People have always been friends before they were gamers, and board games have tapped into this for a very long time. … do you remember the evening highlights as being the strategic move that was done during the board game, or do you remember more the jokes that were circulating around the table as you were having a drink with your friends?

We did this for a few sessions and voila! At last, she began to relax—she was having fun with an adult for the first time in her life! By the fourth session, we had made the critical connection and her journey ….

Sharing stories is so much easier in person. And getting our weekly updates on each other’s lives just isn’t as personal when I type casual updates in my Facebook…

Well, stay at home and play a game is one choice. But what game would be different each time we played it? Certainly not a trivia-type memory game, nor a game with questions so simplistic that they bring out the dumb answers in all of us. Nor one that has the words conquer or destroy in the instruction sheet….

The part of Do Tell I find the most helpful is the way the questions are structured. Each question has more than one layer to it and ….

I use Facebook. My observation is that we are “networking without content”, that we are speaking on our Facebook sites and nobody is really listening. We created a social networking tool that’s unique – you actually get to see and talk to the person while you’re networking. What a novel idea!…

I love this effortless way my parents are getting to know my teenagers even better – heaven knows how hard it is to pry information out of them. The real bonus is my children are getting more connected to the rest of the family. They see grandma and grandpa as the full personalities and people they really are…..

We use to entertain often, eating out and seeing movies with friends at least once per week. Our friends did the same circuit as well with us and other friends. Well, now life has changed, we have to live life within our means, …and still be social….

And while we’re talking about social networks and sharing, let’s include “am I being heard” and “is anybody really listening”? Sure, posting the latest news in my life is great, but is that brief fifty words and those cell-phone-snap-shot-pix really getting the content across of what I’m feeling, or even what that event was about, or even “what am I about”….

The older I get the more I realize I must actively participate is keeping connected with everyone. Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace are fine for updating everyone on my latest trip or I have a toothache, but it really doesn’t give me the space, platform, or audience I need to “share me as I am today”….

You’re driving your car. The kids are texting. They have their own social networks, they think they are connecting with all the people in their life. Guess who’s left out? The real people in their life. The people in their family/extended family/special friends/your friends – you know, everyone who thirty years ago used to be who they connected with….