Family Life: Balance
Seeking Balance, Setting Boundaries, Avoiding Parent Burn Out and More
Striving for Balance involves ensuring that everyone's needs -- not just the child's -- are recognized, validated, and met to the greatest extent possible. In an ideal world, every family member's needs are met all the time, everyone is happy and healthy, and the family is perfectly in balance. In the real world, nobody's family life is perfectly balanced all the time. It is not unusual for parents to feel out of balance at times. Parents who practice AP continuously look for creative ways to find balance in their personal and family life. For more information, read the API resources listed below.
- Strive for Balance in Your Personal and Family Life - One of API's Eight Principles of Parenting
- Read Parents Need Boundaries, Too by Carrie Kerr
- Read Simplify Your Morning Routine by Sharon Chinn-Heritch
- Read more articles on Family Life: Balance
- Read Be Selfish: Finding Balance in Your Life on API Speaks (blog)
- Read A Balancing Act on API Speaks
- Read Caring for Myself on the API Forums
- Read Family ties provide protection against young adult suicidal behavior on the API Forums
- Discuss how you maintain balance on the API Strive for Balance in Your Personal and Family Life forum
Member Resources
One of the many benefits of API Membership is access to the members-only site, The Attached Family. The following articles on Adoption and Foster Care can be found in the password-protected section of The Attached Family website. Login instructions are available on the online magazine's homepage.
Members also receive a quarterly magazine, The Attached Family.