Top Three Essential Ingredients To Build A Thriving Family

Essential Strategy #1: Environment

Mark Rogers | Convergence

Parents building a thriving family

The Thriving Family will always place the environment as top priority. If something doesn't seem right the primary reason is always found in the environment. So if you are sensing something is off the first order of business is getting the environment back into order. In order for the family to be able to thrive make sure the right ingredients are present and highly visible. There's a lot to think about when we begin to address creating the right environment for our family.

Everything rises and falls on creating and maintaining the right environment.

For example, plants need certain things in their environments in order to thrive, and so do families. And like plants there is not only one way to create the environment, the same is true for families. Each family has unique dynamics and encapsulates it's own culture and way of doing things. But all thriving families will have certain non-negotiable ingredients that must go into the soil or it will be impossible for it to thrive and produce health and vitality. If plants are kept in the dark their chance of success is slim to none. We all know plants need essential ingredients in order to thrive; water, light, nutrition. In the next few paragraphs I will list the top three essential ingredients each family needs to build a thriving family & drug free kids.

The first ingredient are the parent(s). This may be something that should be a given but in today's climate towards the traditional family parents are sometimes looked at as part of the problem. I propose the parents are the solution while often times today our institutions are a big part of the problem although they think they are the solution. The institutions of our day have somehow been captured and become antithetical to the family. The institutions want the parents to believe they are the experts and somehow the parents are inept and ill equipped so the institutions have to step in and provide help. Nothing could be further from the truth. The parents have not grown inept but instead the institutions have overstepped by undercutting the authority of the parents and sowing discord and distrust into the family system, this is unacceptable. Parent(s) are the head of the family not the government. We don't have to look very far to see the effectiveness of the government regarding keeping kids off drugs and abusing alcohol. Drug overdose deaths are at an all time high with no end in sight. Bold parents are the most important of all ingredients in building a thriving family not to mention thriving communities.

The second ingredient is finding our voice and taking back the authority we (the Traditional American Family) surrendered to the institutions. It is the opinion of this writer when in comes to prevention we the parents subjugated a large part of the responsibility to the schools. It was too long ago the American Family trusted the institutions to be of assistance, but then they got captured and now pushing an agenda which is not pro parent or pro family. We must accept this new reality or we will loose our kids to the prevailing culture whose end result is to divide and destroy the traditional American Family.

We as parents must fully own the responsibility of raising our kids, building our families, and understand the institutions of our day are no longer aligned with our values but oppose them. Such attitudes, thinking, and behaviors lead to alcohol and drug abuse and get rooted in early childhood development, therefore prevention strategies targeting the preadolescent must not be left up to the schools but must be delivered in the home.

When we take back our authority and adopt this mindset it will go along way to creating and maintaining the environment needed to build a thriving family and drug free kids.

The third top ingredient needed to build a thriving family and drug free kids is the ingredient of faith. One of the great things about America are the freedoms we enjoy including the freedom of religion. We all enjoy religious liberty, whatever that may look like for each of us. Here at Convergence we are not telling you how to believe or how to practice faith but only that the practicing of faith is an essential ingredient to building a thriving family and drug free kids. The dynamic of faith which causes a person to accept they are not the center of the universe and that the world does not evolve around them is key in shaping the right mindset needed to thrive in this world.

When our children learn they are not in charge and there is someone far more powerful making the rules it provides them with a sobering sense of how the world really works., that there is One who is ultimately responsible and takes an accounting of our life. A wise man once said, "There are two things I know for sure, 'There is a God and I am not Him." Faith is an essential ingredient in the development process. Faith is critical in developing the right attitudes, learning to think critically, honing processing skills, learning to make the right decisions, and forging genuine character. However each family decides to mix faith into the environment of the family is a personal decision. Our prayer for your family is that the ingredient of faith be considered as essential as water and light are to plants.

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