Family meeting after a hard week: agenda and tips
A 24-minute agenda to repair, listen and agree one small change, without blame, with what to decide and how long to keep it.
The agenda (24 minutes)
- min 0Step 1: Grown-ups go first: what we could have done better4 min
- min 4Step 2: Each person says how the week felt, without interruptions6 min
- min 10Step 3: Pick one thing that caused the most trouble3 min
- min 13Step 4: Ideas to fix it: every idea is written down5 min
- min 18Step 5: Choose one idea to try for a week3 min
- min 21Step 6: Appreciations, and something kind to end on3 min
Decide and write down
- One change to try for a week
- When to check how it went
When and how long
- When
- a calm moment a day or two after things went wrong, never in the middle of it
- How long
- 10 to 15 minutes with children from 5
- Goal
- repair, listen and agree one small change, without blame
After the meeting, TaskFamily keeps what you decided: mood check-ins, a gratitude journal and quick behaviour points for catching them being kind.
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The agenda timings are TaskFamily's suggestion for the age of the youngest child at the table. The guide text is drafted with AI from these numbers and checked automatically before it is published.