Maintaining good relationships with your family requires a new set of communication skills, especially when your children are teenagers.
The first step is to imagine your family plan. Schools, sports, and many other hobbies can test a family's ability to maintain good relationships during the school term. Before the regular back-to-school season begins, consider what you want your family to look like this year. How often will you all have dinner together, enjoy a weekend afternoon together, or chat together? You can clearly know how you want your family to move forward and be more clear about the ideal state.
Requesting participation and support from your family takes time and continuous effort. The "visioning, planning, and promoting" strategy can be a useful method to bring the family together and benefit everyone.
Visioning. Spend five minutes thinking about what would bring your family together for good reasons. Many people will list things like having a meal together, watching a movie, or going on a family trip. Planning. The family calendar will list some potentially participating activities and find opportunities to designate "family time." Marking specific dates on the calendar will increase the chances of going to the beach, having a picnic, or going on a weekend hike by tenfold. Promotion. If the whole family cannot have a fixed time together every week, it may require some understanding, or in some cases, strong opposition to pre-planning..................