Key Messages
- A family can provide a safe place for its members to share feelings, thoughts, ideas, fears and hopes.
- Parents should try to find time to talk with each person alone, and together as a family.
- When you are angry and most worried, it is especially important to plan a few minutes when everyone can be together.
- A few minutes spent at the end of the day just talking about how things have gone that day and planning for tomorrow can be a relief from stress. Be sure to save difficult problem solving conversations for times when you are not tired.
- In Pakistan a lot of children live in extended families especially in rural areas. Grandparents, aunts and uncles as well as older siblings take care of young children.
- Therefore, it is very important to discuss the role of families in childhood development and care and responsive care giving.
- The bond children develop with their parents/caregivers and families help them to feel secure and protected.