Building Family Strengths and Activites
Practical, user-friendly ways to strengthen family ties.
- Family Fun Activities
- Family Growth Resources
- Two-page idea sheets on coping with challenges of family life:
- Building Marital Strengths
- Inventing Family Rituals That Bring You Together
- String Out Your Stress
- Supporting Children on School or Community Projects
- Families in the Fast Lane - Making the Most of the Internet
- Creativity and Resiliency
- Research Reviews
- Bouncing back: sports and academic resilience among African-American males. Braddock II, J.H., Royster, D.A., Winfield, L.F., Hawkins, R. (1991).
- Adverse life events and resilience. Tiet, Q.Q., Bird, H.R., Davies, M., Hoven, C., Cohen, P., Jensen, P.S., & Goodman, S. (1998).
- The relationship of individual and family factors to the psychological well-being of junior high school students living in urban poverty. De Haan, L.G. & MacDermid, S. (1998).
- The academic resilience of Mexican American high school students. Gonzalez, R. & Padilla, A.M. (1997).
- FunnyBone Humor Page
- Metaphors of Individual and Family Resiliency
- Perspective: Family Strength
- Teaching Ideas for Family Life Educators
- Using Media to Teach Family Values
