JOHN STEINBECK AND THE FAMILY

These are the messages of this blog:

• We can be no stronger than our family
• We do well when our family is working well
• All our wellness is the exclusive business of the family
  

If you don’t believe us, here’s what John Steinbeck says:

“People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it. I know this will cause cries of pain from the doctrinaires of the individual. I’m one myself. But also I believe that man is a double thing - a group animal and at the same time an individual. And it occurs to me that he cannot successfully be the second until he has fulfilled the first”

Saturday Review (May 1955)

So, this means that:

• Violence starts in the home, we can’t blame the community
• The family is the starting place to fix learning problems
• Addictions have their source and control in the family
• Money problems have their source and control in the family
• Community experts can’t fix family problems
• Most government, media and commercial cures are suspect
• The family’s job is nurture and support for all its members

Let's hear from you on the FAMILY CHALLENGE of Family Wellness.