Mission for Happy Home

I Am the Supporter of My Family!

When we watch sports, we can see the people who are as enthusiastic as the players. They are supporters. Supporters refer to the people who support or sponsor a specific group or person, or the people who cheer for players in the stadium. The supporters’ backing and cheering give players strength and confidence, which leads the game to victory. It is true that the players who have finished the game say, “I was energized by the cheers of the spectators.” Not only sport players but everyone needs encouragement and support. This is because everyday life towards a dream or for a task given to us is sometimes like a fierce game. This month, become a reliable supporter for your family.…

Lively Family Is Good at Greeting

As a proverb says, “The way you greet someone determines how he will welcome you,” greetings are the key to success in your social life. Greetings are not only the way to be polite but make the other person feel good because they are an expression of your good feeling and concern for him or her. So if you are good at greeting people, things will go well. Greetings also play a big role in building a happy family. The family who exchanges greetings in time has a cheerful mood. Good greetings between family members lead them to respect and be considerate of each other, and they naturally come to converse often. It is also a great home education for…

Make a Family Time Capsule

What plans did you make with your family around this time last year? In the New Year, we make many plans to spend the year more fruitfully. As time passes, however, it tends to end in smoke unlike the first resolution. How about writing down those goals and commitments this year and putting them in a time capsule? You may add letters, meaningful objects, and photos. Then keep it sealed for a year and open it with your family at the end of the year. When you open the time capsule that contains what you wrote, imagining how better you would change a year later and love for your family, won’t it be a fun and meaningful time? Tip Write…

Family Awards Ceremony

At the end of every year, various awards ceremonies are held. It is to recognize and reward for the labor of those who have shown remarkable performance in each field and those who have made efforts steadily in their own places though they were not acknowledged. No matter what it is, good results cannot be achieved by one person. It is thanks to all members who help each other and do their best in their own places. The same goes for home. It would not be the result of one person’s efforts to have a happy home for a year while the family is all right. It may be the result of practicing sacrifice, love, and consideration for the family…

Grant Your Family’s Small Wishes

Fairy tales often feature someone who grants wishes of the main character. So the main character can live a new life or overcome crises and find happiness thanks to the wish granter. This can happen not only in fairy tales. If you make a little bit more effort, you can easily grant a small wish of your precious family. If that happens, your family won’t be envious of anyone who has extraordinary power in fairy tales. If you grant each other’s wishes with consideration and sincerity, the whole family will automatically be happier. Please be willing to grant your loved one’s “small wishes” this month. Maybe a beautiful story like a fairy tale will unfold before you! Tip Create a…

Improve Your Family’s Strengths!

If you want a seed or a plant to grow well, you need to place it on the spot with good sunlight and wind and raise it with care, rather than leaving it alone. It is the same with the seed of love. If you do not express love to your family, it is hard for the seed of love to grow well. In order for the seed of love to grow, bloom, and bear fruit, you should take good care of it. One of the ways is to look at your family’s strengths. While you are taking care of your family with the interest to find strengths, you will understand each other and love will grow big in your…

Treat Your Family Gently As You Do to Your Customers!

When you go to a restaurant for a meal or when you enter a store to buy something, if shop assistants give a warm welcome to you, you will feel very good. Even if you are not so satisfied with a product, you may sometimes buy it because of the kindness of a sales assistant. Thus, kindness is powerful, then why don’t you regard your family as your customers and treat them as gently as possible this month? It is not as easy as it sounds to be always kind to your family. Sometimes, when you are upset, when you are ill, or when you care about other things, you may bluntly speak and act. Because of this, you may…

Relieve Your Family’s Fatigue!

Fatigue accumulates in your body because of what you do at school, at work, or at home. If fatigue lasts long, it can have a bad effect on your body and mind; so you must relieve it each time. Among many ways to recover from fatigue, there is more powerful fatigue-reliever than anything else. It is family love. Even though you have had a hard day, you come to have peace of mind at home after talking and laughing enough with your family. Then, your stress will vanish. This month, relieve your family’s fatigue by practicing family love. While making efforts to encourage your loved ones, you will be able to blow off your fatigue, too. Tip Relieve your family’s…

Make a Family Cheer Song!

A song has the power to make people closer together. The sense of closeness increases while all sing along the rhythm and melody in unison. Sports supporters and marching soldiers become one in mind by chanting together. What about a family song at home just like sports chants in the stadium and a military song in the army? Your precious family is always with you whether you are happy or sad. A family song in harmony, though imperfect, has great power in itself because the love and encouragement contained in it become infinite energy to each other. Make a song for your family this month and sing it together, so that your home can be full of happiness along with…

Express Your Mind with a Pen!

Handwriting is one of the cultures that gradually disappear due to the popularization of computers and smart phones. As keyboard or touch screen enables you to easily send messages and letters, people rarely use a pen or a pencil these days. However, handwriting with great care will move the other person more than using convenient digital letters. A handwritten letter has a positive effect on the writer as well as the recipient. A research shows that a person who frequently handwrites letters has higher affection for the other person. This month, let us take up a pen for our precious family. A letter, card, note, postcard, calligraphy, and anything is good. While writing a letter word by word, you will…

Become a Hidden Assistant of Your Family!

How will you feel if someone cares about you, pleases you, and is willing to help you when you have a hard time? You will be happy, encouraged, and reassured as well. You know that? You already have that person. It is your family. However, you may often forget that. Even after receiving love from your family, you might not appreciate it but grumble and complain against them. This month, rather than expecting something from your family, why don’t you become a “hidden assistant” doing good deeds secretly for your family? You will know that giving love brings greater happiness than receiving it. Tip Decide the mission period. Write each name of your family members on each paper and pick…

Respect Your Family’s Emotions!

We have many emotions-joy, sadness, anger, expectation, fear, gratitude, etc. We want to express these emotions in any way, and we feel stable and happy when our emotions are respected by others. Expressing our emotions in a healthy way, and understanding and accepting each other’s feelings are the basics of conversation. Even if you disagree, you can have a pleasant conversation if you understand the other person’s feelings first. How much do you listen to and care about your family’s emotions? Respect their diverse emotions and actively empathize with them this month because their emotions are as precious as your family.   Tip Read your family’s emotions. (“You look happy, today,” “Aren’t you tired from work?”) Listen carefully and understand…

Say Good Morning!

In the past in Korea, there were manners in which children greeted their parents with regards every morning. After washing and dressing neatly, they greeted their parents and arranged their bedding or brought water for their washing up. In this busy modern society, such customs have already disappeared, but the value of greetings remains unchanged because it is a way of expressing love and care, wishing each other good health. This month, let us gladly greet our family in the morning. “Did you sleep well?” or “Good morning!” Saying good morning with a smile can help you start your day with happiness. Let’s get ready for a happy day with a good morning greeting! Tip Wake up a little early…

Set Laughter Devices at Home!

Your smile makes those who see you as well as yourself happy. It’s also the best way to express your love to the people around you and to encourage them and support them. Set laughter devices all over the house to laugh more. Laughing out loud for more than ten seconds will increase the effect of laughing even more. Make good use of various laughter devices to laugh aloud together with your family. Unhappiness will run away and happiness will fill your house. Tip Laughter zone: Laugh whenever you’re in the zone. (Put up a sign, “Laughter Zone” or “LOL.”) Laughter line: Laugh whenever you cross it. (Put up a sign, “Laugh when you cross it.”) Laughter time: Laugh at…

Change Family Habits for the New Year

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit,” said a philosopher. You make habits, but later habits make you. While good habits lead you to the right path and make you a better person, bad habits become an obstacle to your path. Moreover, a small and trivial habit may lead into conflict with your close family members. Everybody has a plan for new habits whenever a new year begins. Why don’t you decide what habits you want to correct or what new habits you want to have and share them with your family? And encourage each other for success. Small changes can make big changes! Tip Talk about habits to change. Listen to…

Pay Off a Debt of Gratitude

A debt is something that you must pay back to someone. The sooner you pay it off, the more you feel relieved. When you repay it, you can keep your relationship smooth. Isn’t it the same with a debt of gratitude? In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that we always live in debt to our families. We receive love without any condition, and hurt them or cause anxiety to them unknowingly. Nevertheless, we may take it for granted with a thought, ‘That’s okay because we are family.’ Greeting the end of the year, why don’t we settle our debts of grat-itude we have owed for a year to our family? Expressing gratitude and soothing pain one another, let…

Treat Your Family to Tea!

Tea is a favorite food loved both in the East and the West. To enjoy a deep taste of tea, you have to be careful in every step from preparing the tea water to steeping it in the cup. As you need time and effort to make it, you can enjoy tea if you drink slowly, savoring it. Tea is sometimes a medium of communication among people. When you have a cup of tea, a conversational atmosphere will be naturally created, and you can get to know each other while talking. This month, enjoy a cup of fragrant tea with your loving family. Treat your family to tea, regarding them as valued guests, and enjoy a friendly talk. Then, fragrance…

Respond Enthusiastically for Lively Conversations

How do you respond when you talk with your family? Aren’t you listening inattentively or putting off a conversation with an excuse that you are busy? Having a conversation with your family is important to understand each other. This also becomes the foundation for a harmonious family. If you respond enthusiastically while conversing with them, you’ll have a more joyful conversation. Showing your interest and respect will please the speaker. Thinking you are empathizing with him/her, the speaker will open up. Of course, love will overflow during the conversation. This month, listen to your family and respond to them actively! Tip Listen attentively when someone is speaking. Try to understand the speaker’s feelings by saying, “Yes,” “I see,” or “You’re…

Make the Entrance Full of Love

“I am home.” “Have a nice day!” “Welcome back! You’ve done a good job, today, too.” It is the entrance that you go through first whenever you come home, and that you pass through lastly when you go out. It is the place where you meet or say bye to your family for their daily schedules. It’s where your guests will get the first impression. Although it’s a small area in the house, its role is not little at all. While you see off your family with encouragement and welcome home, the entrance becomes a place of communication and harmony, not just a gate for entry and exit. This month, why don’t you make the entrance full of love so…

Give the Thumbs-Up: “My Family Is the Best!”

Praise can make even a whale dance. Praise makes the listener feel better and lift up those who are in despair. Praise is another food people eat. “Good!” “Excellent!” “You are the best!” If you raise your thumbs with the words of praise, the effect doubles. Sometimes, a powerful gesture of thumbs-up makes the other person more pleased than many words. Dale Carnegie said, “There is nothing more touching and moving than praise. We may soon forget how we praised someone else, but the person who was praised may keep it in his heart all his life.” This month, praise your family generously with your thumbs up. The listeners can feel energy surging up when they are exhausted, and happiness…