What makes a home happy is the people that are in it, the attitudes we come in the door with, and the simpler things that we can do to the space we call home each time we’re in it that don’t cost a thing.

• Eat, play, love (together)

These easy ways to reconnect with your family can help create a really positive dynamic.
Families that eat together, stay together. Family dinners are essential, It's a time to connect.

• Stop Nagging

Quit nagging with your husband and children.
but I figured that if I stopped, my husband would never do a thing around the house. Wrong.

• Change your toughts

Encourage positive thoughts in your mind.
Feeling Good, can have a positive effect."
Practicing Yoga, meditation, rythmic breathing or simply relaxation can make you feel good and eventually can change your thoughts into positivity.

• Put Family Before Friends

"In happy families, family comes before friends," Give rules, but understand that kids need fun, too. When kids get bored and listless, they start looking for excitement out of the home and that is when friends become more important. Same as husband, husband should prioritize being with his family more than to be his friend in golf course or hanging up with them. Friendship is important, but subordinate to family."

• Visualize your “best possible self.”

This is an exercise that has been shown to increase your feelings of happiness and well-being. It involves two basic steps: visualizing how the “future you” looks when you’ve achieved your goals, and identifying the characteristics you need to use (or learn) to get you to where you want to be.
Begin by imagining yourself in the future, when you have gotten to where you want to be.

• Cultivate Gratitude

Perform a daily "gratitude exercise." It involves listing a few things that make them grateful. Or even appreciative in small things. This way, family members shifts away from bitterness and despair.
It promotes happiness.

• Foster Forgiveness

Holding a grudge and nursing grievances can affect physical as well as mental health. One way to curtail these kinds of feelings is to foster forgiveness. This reduces the power of bad events to create bitterness and resentment.
Don't dwell on your anger, hurt, and desire for vengeance.

• Swap Stories

When your kids come home, ask them what happened in school and have a story for them, If you come home dejected and not really interested and then five minutes later the TV is on, why would they be happy to see you?"

The bottom line, is that when you come home, your kids have to come first. "You must drop everything you are doing and always come home with something to share with your kids, whether a story. This way you give your kids something to look forward to.
The great bane of family life is boredom and that is what leads to dysfunction, affairs, and kids wanting to be with their friends over family.

• Put the Marriage First

"Set a real good example" The relationship and marriage must come first".

• Build and Honor Rituals

Families need rituals. Rituals can be religious, national, or even family-specific.
Happy families have meaningful rituals and are not stressed out by them. They can be unique to your own family such as going for bagels on Saturday morning, a weekly pizza night, or even a family song. Rituals tend to bring family members close together because they are repeated over time.

• Keep Your Voices Down

Remember that children thrive on stability. There has to be a calm environment at home. Talk to your kids, give them strict rules, and punish children when necessary, but don't lose control and yell. If you yell at kids, that shows you are out of control and you create a nonpeaceful environment.

• Never Fight in front of the Kids

Some fighting or bickering may be inevitable, try to keep it away from the children. If your kids see you fight and argue, apologize and say,

'We are sorry you had to see it. Daddy and I just had a disagreement, but everything is OK now.'"

• Don't Work Too Much

Take time to go out with your children in the park or engage into activity with them.
All work and no play does worse things to a family than make it dull. "If you are away all the time and don't prioritize your kids, your kids will internalize feelings of insecurity. They'll begin to believe that they're not valuable enough.

Thank you very much for taking time to read!

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: webmd
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