Family and work

What struck me most when reading chapter 9, was the beginning. The book talked about dealing with dual-earning families and how to balance out work and family. My mom has just recently gotten back into the workforce so its been really hard for my family to adjust. In the book it talks about how one of the maine adaptive strategies is to value family before anything else. With my family I can defiantly see this. My brother is helping out with a lot more house chores and helping my parents get my sister to and from school. But I think one thing that needs to be worked on is valuing time. Our family is very busy, so getting the schedule all smoothed out can be difficult. And getting enough family time is a struggle as well; just getting the family to dinner twice a week can be a challenge in its self. I think though for a dual working family we are doing pretty well, no one seems to fret to much about it; plus no family is perfect.