
FamilyLife Blended® Minute
Family Meetings; What Is It?
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Corporations have business meetings all the time. Shouldn't families do that?
Show Notes
About the Guest
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Generally, the purpose behind a business meeting is to generate teamwork and productivity. A family meeting is so much more than that. It's about facilitating family harmony as well as making vacation plans and discussing the family calendar. You can also work through hurt feelings and support each other in tough times. And there's a bonus for blended families: regular family meetings become a ritual that strengthens a sense of family identity.
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Ron Deal
Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and ...more
Corporations have business meetings all the time. Shouldn’t families do that?