Regular family meetings will build your child's confidence

With four boy children aged 10, eight, six and a half, and almost five to get ready for school each morning, followed by running the gauntlet of domesticity in the afternoon, family life was beginning to resemble a well-shaken bottle of pop; explosive and with everyone running, shrieking for cover.
The power struggles were growing exponentially and the future stretched before me; a house full of teenage boys and a stressed, harangued mother. It did not look bright.