Components of a Successful Family with Jodi Chaffee (part 2)

Strategies for ‘work-life’ balance

• Systems and routines
  • Family devotional
  • Family night-talk about a chosen topic
  • Family councils
  • Hard to be consistent
  • Executive council-goals- daily with husband
  • Dinner as a family most nights
• Take the moments the kids need then you can get back to your task

Components for a successful family

• Vehicle
  • Family
  • Stories
  • Environment 
• Navigation
  • Mission
  • Vision
  • Value
• Maintenance
  • Dates
  • Who is driving? Parents or toddler or teenager? 
  • Coping with stressors
  • Trust

Resources Mentioned: (Links may be affiliate providing a commission from your purchase to Family Life Movement)

Jodi was with us in episodes #3 and 13!

Books/ Websites

Hold On to Your Kids-Gordon Neufeld

The Awakened Family- Shefali Tsabary

Thomas Jefferson Education- Oliver DeMille

Well Educated Heart Website

Well Educated Mind- Susan Wise Bauer

Guest’s Links: 

Our Modern Heritage Website/Podcast 

Jodi's Facebook

Jodi's Instagram

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