20191214, Article, Taichung

[Jasmine0316]

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Time：第 492 會，2019 年 12 月 14 日（週六）下午2:30~5:30
Place：
http://www.happyforum.org/happy/viewtopic.php?t=15

Agenda
14:30~15:30 Session One
15:30~15:50 Speech Session
15:50~16:00 Change Group and then Break Time
16:00~17:15 Session Two
17:15~17:30 Happy Time

Host: Eric Cheng
Assistant Host:

Topic::
How to Have a Good Family Life
Source:
https://www.wikihow.com/Have-a-Good-Family-Life

Please Note:
Venue:台中市南屯區 大業路182號 Mos Burger二樓
Thanks a lot for your attention.

Questions:
1. Home is a place for safety, retreat, and family love. What does home mean to you? How do you define a great family life?

2. Spending more family time together, we can further understand each other, have fun, and enhance relationship. What are your family's ways to spend more time together? What other ways would you like to try?

3. Conflicts among family members are inevitable. Can you share the experiences of conflicts in your family? What caused the conflicts? How did your family solve them? How to heal and grow from these experiences?

4. Except for sharing the house chores, family members also share happiness and sadness. Please talk about how you build strong and sweet family relationships.



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時間地點須知：
http://www.happyforum.org/happy/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15
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http://www.happyforum.org/happy/viewforum.php?f=33
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http://www.happyforum.org/happy/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1766
週六晚餐(Saturday Dinner)
http://www.happyforum.org/happy/viewforum.php?f=76
戶外活動(Club Outing)

[Jasmine0316]

Dear Taichung Happiers,

Family is a gift. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVQEBoQFjs

Family is more than a magic mirror. We see our best and our worst in it. Family has been the greatest happiness in our lives; family gives us the deepest securities; family, in some contexts, the simple fact is-- we are the best and the worst things that have happened in each other’s lives. No matter what, our family makes up a huge part of who we are--family gives us something secure--it gives our minds some quiet. Author Harold S. Kushner reasons, remarkably, that a family bond is stronger than ever. “Sooner or later, we all learn that our immortality is rooted not in our professional involvements and achievements, but in our families. In time, all of our wins and losses in the workplace will be forgotten. If our memories endure, it will be because of the people we have known and touched.” The family tie possesses a pristine memory of everything that has happened. It remembers, just as we do. It remembers everything. Family memory is delicious. We remember mom’s cooking hands as they sailing across the kitchen. They have a magical sense of direction. Family spews out a vivid, colorful, and specific memory. We taste and contribute to something bright, heartfelt, and persistent. The memory fills us with feelings of influence and significance, and sense of purpose. With family, we benefit from an increased feeling of well-being. Our eyes display a hint of trust; moreover, we are sufficiently intrigued. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to join our host Eric Cheng in addressing a more appropriate consideration of what family means to us.

Family is a gift. Your love is the key to unwrap the surprises. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH1ZJVqJO3Y Whatever your mom is saying, she is calling for love. Love is what glues us firmly to family members; love is what resolves the tension in family; love is what brings the family a state of peaceful existence and agreement. If you pick up any childhood pictures at random, you’ll find how perfectly the curve of your hands fits in the palm of your parents’, and how perfectly your smile weighs on the corners of your parents’ lips. Family provides us with love; moreover, family gives us values. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4irkUDbaIA Family love. The unconditional love we take and give. No matter what, no matter what, who they are is what we truly love. We want the memory of every family day never to escape our minds, to remain as certain as ever. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/78306976 ... anksgiving Family provides us with love; moreover, family gives us values. Winston S. Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965), the prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955, confirmed the healthy influence that family has been on us. “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.” Yes. The quiet atmosphere and the peace bring memories bubbling to the surface. After all the striving and searching, of hoping, of standing up to the expectations, what we seek, quite simply, is the values. https://goodmenproject.com/featured-con ... ntly-fiff/

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiY89gBd2GQ For a happy family life, small things can be compelling. Spend healthy, happy, fun time with family. Time is attention; attention is love. Taichung Happiers’ best friend Albert Einstein urged us to “rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.” The most enjoyable family time is while having mom’s signature dishes. Yet, bringing back the family dinner has been a loving slogan--since when? We are of a mind that family dinner should grant us breathing space from life’s trials and troubles. In modern society, the difficulty of work-family balance needs no further explanation. However, spending quality family time together inevitably involves making better decisions and habits “in many aspects”. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/ ... e-in-2019/ In addition, in family life, money is not everything, yet how we execute disciplines in money is the key to expansion. What is a discipline in money you have mastered since childhood? Do you think long term with money? Do you think showing off is not cool? Do you buy experiences instead of things? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Qt3KUZQEA Most importantly, how we spend quality time with family is more important than how much time we do. Family vacation to places always mingles seamlessly in our memory. During each family vacation, we take care of each other, and praise the excellence and beauties of places. What could be better? Time is attention; attention is love. https://www.inspiremore.com/11-tips-for ... -vacation/

From “The Stick-Together Families” (by Edgar Albert Guest)

It's the stick-together family that wins the joys of earth,
That hears the sweetest music and that finds the finest mirth;
It's the old home roof that shelters all the charm that life can give;
There you find the gladdest play-ground, there the happiest spot to live.
And, O weary, wandering brother, if contentment you would win,
Come you back unto the fireside and be comrade with your kin.

In family, everything means something; sometimes, we just don’t know what. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVTBQLa-xgY Family members are the only people in the world with whom we can be completely ourselves. As family members play different roles, every member has to constantly nourish the family bonds. To be a step ahead in matters of family relationships requires constant diligence and alertness. If we hope to make a successful advance, we must be mindful of every assertion, attend to every action, and take note of every expression. In other words, to be a step ahead in family relationships is sometimes exhausting. Nevertheless, what accentuates people’s delivered efforts for family relationships could allow us an expression of surprise. https://thriveglobal.com/stories/learni ... ur-family/ Every family member always deserves more forgiveness. We don’t and won’t get 100% of equality in family relationships. Family. By some strange twist, that it is the very disagreement in family life and differences between members that make it all so beautiful and wonderful. For all its severity—because of its severity—disturbances have brightened every corner of our home. It’s like, without the darkness, we will never notice the stars. https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do ... cdep.12216 American writer Richard Bach highlights what makes up the family ties. “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.” So, except for respecting each other’s commitment, would you like to let the joys of reading bring your family together? Do you remember the first day when your parents brought you a book? While reading, our heart rate slows down. time disappears, and serious people turn into dreamers again. Wondering what strange mixture of books can a family read together? Now, have the perfume of this book envelope you and your family! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uChgR7c1Lw

We don’t stop believing in family. It’s a way of seeing, a voice inside, and a structure. Family has an appeasing voice that invites us to accept, acknowledge, and appreciate more. All families are a combination of stories; some seem consisting of more layers of telling and retelling. And, what your grandma says, in a skilled way or not, always gives value. Find it! The Award-winning author Elizabeth Berg has admonished that “You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.” Family makes us understand our place in the passage of time; we can see with perfect clarity how family love will shape our future. The stock of knowledge about family relationships is enormous; it has the form growing over years until it evolves into the most fantastic forms. Above all, this Happy Club, this Happy Family, is forever a great gift. Staying as we have been in this club, a big family rich with our own tradition and club culture, it is inevitable that we’ve constructed our togetherness as a series of stories. What keeps us moving forward is the ingenuous and inspiring lessons we’ve learned from each other. This is simply what a family do--helping each other along the journey of pursuing the best version of ourselves. Let the quiet happiness keeps stretching out among us; let us look at our Happy Family with a smile of sincere gratefulness. Join us. Thanks!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy8G_-cf8U4





With Gratitude,
Jasmine