Download a free copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Your Family is intended to help your family develop its strengths. The only two requirements for celebrating your family are a desire to do something that will strengthen the family further, and a family commitment to set aside some time for strength- building activities.
All families experience stress.
What separates a strong family from other families is that the strong family works at making itself healthy. The stressors affecting families are the ordinary events that occur as the family lives and grows together. Stress also occurs when Mom or Dad has to work overtime, or the telephone rings in the middle of supper, or Mom is feeling under the weather. What separates a strong family from all the others is how it deals with these ordinary stressors. A strong family works at developing its abilities to cope with stress.