Contest : Key Elements of Strong Family Relationships.

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What are the qualities of a strong and healthy family relationship?

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Strong and healthy family has numerous qualities that cannot be overemphasized,,, some of these qualities are:

• Listening carefully to each other and trying their possible best to understand each other needs. Then ensuring that those needs are been meet, even if it means going an extra mile.

• Showing genuine and compassionate love, care and affection for one another.

• A healthy family handles each other with so much regard, kindness and empathy.

• Supporting and giving in their best to see that they help each other to achieve their goals and aspirations.

• Trust is also another quality of a healthy family because,, without trust, the family members won't have confidence on each other and won't be able to rely on one another in terms of challenges for encouragement.

• Healthy family spend most of their time together,, doing activities that make their bond stronger and keep them connected to each other.

• Lastly,, healthy family practice Open and honest communication,, expressing each other's feelings, thoughts, and fears without fear of being misunderstood.

Without honest communication, their won't be trust and understanding,, and without trust and understanding, the family relationship won't be healthy. Therefore,, each family that wants a healthy relationship should ensure open and honest communication.

How can technology impact family dynamics and relationships?

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Technology has both positive and negative impact on family dynamics and relationships.

Positive Impact

• It enhanced good communication as it provide family members with different tools which they can use to communicate effectively. This tools includes,, Email, video conferencing etc.

• Technology can help family to engage in online activities such as watching movie together, gaming etc, which will help strengthen and make the family relationship more stronger.

• Technology can help family members to stay in touch and connected even if they are physically apart. By video calling, using messaging apps to talk and see each other from different locations,, it will help in making them stay connected while they are physically far from each other.

• It can also make vast information very easy and fast to get,, this information gotten by the family members can be use for differs purpose which includes, research, personal growth, for family development etc.

Negative Impact

• Technology can lead to social isolation i.e a situation where family members interact and create more time for their devices than with each other.

• It can negatively impact the family relationship by limiting face to face interaction among family members which is very vital for building strong bond.

• It can result to addiction which has so many bad effects on the mental, physical and relationship life of family members.

Why is communication important in maintaining good relationships?

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Communication is very important in maintaining good relationships because it is the key and most important elements to every successful relationship, whether business, family, love, professional or even personal relationship.

• Communication helps each other to understand their various needs, concerns and emotions better.

• Communication helps in amicable resolution of misunderstanding, and it prevents little disagreement from escalating to bigger ones.

• Effective communication reduces the chances of misconceptions which can result to disagreement or misunderstanding.

• Communication helps in building trust among each other as transparency, accountability and reliability is guaranteed to some extent.

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