CONCERN adds new parenting tips: 6 facets for building strong families

CONCERN, a Pennsylvania and Maryland foster care agency, introduces six facets for building strong families in the newest posting of parenting tips on its website, www.concern4kids.org

Sparkling gem or a diamond in the rough? Like a precious stone, families need a variety of facets – or features – to help them shine. Families can learn to polish their relationships and family life with CONCERN’s newest online parenting tips which focus on building strong families through six FACETS: Fun, Affection, Communication, Encouragement, Time and Structure.

A child welfare agency and counseling service, CONCERN offers its six FACETS of strong families at its website, www.concern4kids.org. A complete listing also is available by calling 610-944-0445.

The six facets offer a total of 20 tips to build strong families, including:
• Fun – Be silly. Family life isn’t supposed to be a hardship. Allow for fun in life.
• Affection – Parents should develop a bedtime routine of telling their child “I love you.”
• Communicate – Parents should give their undivided attention when talking to their children: no reading, no working and no television.
• Encourage – Acknowledge when children have done something right, “Thanks for following through on your chores” or “You did a nice job.”
• Time – Make family time an appointment in weekly schedules. Plan for family in daily agendas.
• Structure – Regardless of what children say they want rules. Families should discuss rules and expectations.

For the complete listing of Building Strong Families, visit CONCERN’s website, www.concern4kids.org
CONCERN is a private, nonprofit, community-based child welfare agency providing foster care, counseling, community life skills and delinquency services to abused, neglected and delinquent children. It serves over 500 children daily in eastern Pennsylvania through sites in Bethlehem, Coatesville, Eynon, Fleetwood, Fort Washington, Lehighton, Lewisburg, Wellsboro, Williamsport, Wyomissing, and York, Pennsylvania, and Lanham, Maryland.