An Article About Family Values by Rafah Khateeb

Family: The Spring of Values

                As society becomes more technologically advanced, families are forgetting their values. Our family values help us shape our personalities, and losing them doesn’t only make us arid, but deteriorates our communities sharply. These values are moral, recreational, and working values. Abiding them will effortless make the connections between family members stronger.

                Families should definitely have moral values, in light of fact that they provide the foundation from which you make decisions. These can be expressed by honesty, being patient, and trustworthy. Those create profound feelings that will never break.

                Never mess up with recreational values, because they do a great impact in fortressing closeness and creating memories. They also improve social skills, so take vacations together, encourage each other, and every once in a while, make some hot chocolate, and play a board game in a quiet dreamy night, all together.

                By definition, working values are those meant with socializing and getting used to the jobs given through work and school, accomplish this point by cooperating together-even when doing easy tasks. Plus, helping your family members when they’re in need, meets the point.

                Sitting down as a family and setting values can seem daunting, but you’ll never realize its importance until you do it, it will positively reflect morally, recreationally, and work-wise. Finally; most importantly, never forget to always love your family, and keep in mind how much they mean to you. <3

Rafah Khateeb – Grade 8