NEW FAMILY WELLNESS VISION

FWR Says:  Parents and kids need a new Family Wellness Vision

Why do we use our common sense about everyday things and lose it when it is personal? We each think we know what is best for our family and our children. The odds are against us on this. The reason is we don’t use our common sense for family wellness.

Using our common sense, we know that our lives on earth require light, heat, air, water, relationships and communication. We know that life requires each one. We also know that these essentials must be in the exact right balance.

If that is the way life is, how can we use some local rule of thumb for the wellness of our family and our kids? Why don’t we see that family wellness also requires the right mix of the essentials? One reason we fly blind on this most important matter, is that we think we can rely on some expert to help us with our problems. No expert can bring us family wellness.

It is not difficult to decide the essentials for family wellness. We know that the list includes fitness, relationships, knowledge, family belonging, values and faith. We don’t think of these essentials working together as we know life’s essentials must.

To help with this family wellness challenge, a new approach has been developed for families called Family Wellness Rainbow (please see: www.familywellnesscybermall.org). It shows family wellness as a rainbow with the essentials and the need for the right balance for each family.

FWR Says: Without a vision, the family and its wellness die.