Strengths and Weaknesses

"How a family handles problems determines how functional they are. A trait of a low-functioning family is the inability to recognize its own strengths. Often we get so focused on what went wrong that we overlooked what went right." - Terry Kellogg and Marvel Harrison

It's important to acknowledge our strengths as well as our weaknesses. All families have problems and challenges. It is not useful to over emphasize weaknesses and under emphasize strengths. Success is more the result of building on the strengths that it is eliminating all weaknesses.

Problems and Challenges

"If you stop and think about it, some of the greatest challenges you ever faced were in your first few years, as you took on the problems of walking, talking, writing, and so on. What is more, you managed all these things!" - Andrew Matthews

Problems and challenges are the stuff of life. Meeting these challenges and solving these problems provide us with a sense of meaning and purpose. Overprotective parents cheat their children out of the adventure of meeting challenges and solving problems, along with the satisfaction that comes from these positive experiences.