This article will discuss how carefully chosen family pictures can help to promote your family’s unity and good morale if your family is ever going through troubling times.
What is an example of a difficult time for a family? As an example, consider a power blackout. Power blackouts can last for hours, days, or even weeks. In the event of a power blackout, there can be many problems for your family, including:
1. Dim lighting, or none.
2. Less heat in the winter or none.
3. Less relief from the summer heat, or none.
4. Dangerous driving conditions when streetlights and stoplights stop functioning.
5. Cabin fever.
6. Less access to videogames, TV, and the internet, or no access at all.
7. A disruption of your family members’ daily living patterns and habits.
8. A decrease in the hours and quality of the sleep of your family members.
A power blackout is just one example of what could be a challenging time for your family. A few other examples might be floods, fires, destructive storms, or even medical problems of a family member.
Stressful events such as those above can lead to family problems such as anxiety, frustration, and depression. Children often cue from the emotions of their parents. Thus, when parents succumb to these emotions, the children often follow along, thus upsetting the parents even more. This cycle can lead to more negative emotions that can consume your family
Iconic family pictures that stick in the memories of family members can serve many therapeutic purposes. These pictures can:
1. Provide a brief, healthy escape from the anxiety of the moment.
2. Remind your family members that they have had happy times together in the past and that they can have happy times together again in the future.
3. Impress upon your family members that they are part of a team that has worked together for years and can work together to get through the current adversity.
Such pictures might be, for example, of:
1. Husbands and wives when they were courting.
2. Their children when they were babies, gap toothed infants, or teenagers.
3. Family reunions.
4. Weddings, birthdays, graduations, vacations, and awards ceremonies.
5. Holiday celebrations such as Christmas and New Year’s parties, 4th of July picnics, and Memorial Day beach outings and picnics.
6. Your family members enjoying their favorite activities, hobbies, sports, and pets.
7. Your family members hamming it up for the camera.
8. Your children being baptised.
These pictures can cause your family members to reminisce about the happy events portrayed in their family pictures.
Have you and your family members ever looked at family pictures together and reminisced about happy past events?
