2018 Family New Year'S Resolutions Template printable pdf download

Our Family New Year’s Resolutions for 2018

New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day - families talking (for just 30 minutes).

An opportunity to look back together on the year gone by and look forward to the year ahead.

✓ Here are five easy steps for having a family chat that can result in up to three New

Year’s resolution that the whole family can commit to for the year ahead.

✓ Use this moment to foster communications and make decisions that build family life.

✓ Gather the family around the table or any place where you can talk to each other.

✓ One person leads the conversation by asking the questions below - give about 5-6

minutes to each question. Ensure every person in the family has a chance to speak.

STEP 1 - Looking back on 2017 - is there a family moment that I remember?

• A fun moment…

• A lovely moment…

• A sad moment…

• A moment I’ll never forget!

STEP 2 - Looking forward to 2018 - what would I love for us as a family?

• Something we might do…

• Something we might stop doing…

STEP 3 - Is there anything in what Pope Francis says here about families that strikes me?

• Always remember to say please, thanks and sorry - doing this in the good

times helps in the bad times

• If anyone has a success let’s all celebrate - if anyone is in trouble let’s all help

• We all need our own space - let’s respect that for each other

• Practice forgiving - let’s be slow to judge one another

• Listen to one another’s stories - especially across the generations

• The family that prays together stays together

STEP 4 - In light of what we have all chatted about is there one resolution I’d love us to

make for the coming year?

• Can we make our suggestions?

• Can we list these?

STEP 5 - From all we have heard which resolutions can we all sign up to?

• Can we write these up in simple, concrete language on our family New Year’s

Resolutions sheet? *

• Where will we place the sheet that we can all see it in our house?

*Keep the resolutions concrete, so that you will know whether they are done or not. Keep them realistic so

that you have a good chance of success. An example of a concrete, realistic resolution might be - We will

celebrate each birthday is 2018 by having a meal together during the week of that birthday.

2018 Family New Year'S Resolutions Template