| An hour to change your life |
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Times are hard for family life in the UK today. With many people working longer hours than ever before, families are  finding it increasingly difficult to spend quality time together, with predictable results: one in three unmarried couples and one in 12 married couples separate by the time their first child starts school. While some go on to make a success of raising their children together, it’s not what anyone wants – or imagines will happen when they first begin a family. Now a new resource from Care for the Family’s Rob Parsons offers help to families under pressure. The Sixty Minute Family offers 10 ‘life lessons’ drawn from real-life scenarios, aimed at making readers’ family lives stronger. Rob – an internationally acclaimed speaker on family and relationship issues praised by the Daily Mail as “the man who reinvented fath erhood” – describes the problem like this. “Families that don’t have time for each other don’t intend to live that way. “It’s just that life goes by a day at a time, and because there’s always tomorrow, the problem never seems critical… We have to live in the real world. There will be some nights when we are absolutely shattered, and it’s fine to skip pages when we’re reading stories to our children. “But at the same time, it’s as well to remember how fast those doors of childhood close.” A quick reader, he says, can get through his book in an hour – hence the title. But that hour might change their relationships for the better in deep and lasting ways. Key areas discussed include: making time for your family in our busy 21st century life; discovering the power of encouragement; learning to listen; the magic of traditions; saving your marriage from a ‘creeping separateness’; and handling conflict effectively. The Sixty Minute Family is published by Care for the Family, price £7.99. To order visit: www.careforthefamily.org.uk/resources |
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