Family Harmony

 

ADULT these, when gathered together between father, mother, and children, it seems increasingly a rare commodity in the modern family dynamics. How not? Parents are busy at work from morning till night, while children struggling in school with a fairly heavy agenda until additional lessons or other extracurricular programs. Moments to mingle and share stories with each other even less. In fact, not infrequently, on a day off Saturday and Sunday could not be maximized due to forced overtime on weekends. If anything, time is very narrow, the conversation did not touch the things that are crucial. Communication is no longer intense, making the harmony of family relations threatened to crack.

Not only in Indonesia, the West is also sticking phenomenon. In the United States for example, according to a study in 2011, teenagers who are diligent dinner with his parents to fall dramatically by 50 percent. In fact, the dinner, the children will be protected from bad habits like smoking, drinking alcohol and taking drugs.

"This is a tragedy in which the family dinner less and less to do with age of a teenager," says Joseph A Califano Jr., president of "The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse" (CASA) at Columbia University, United States, as reported by the page The Auburn Beacon. The experts lamented the lack of great family time with this family. "This activity is very important because dinner is often used as a means to communicate with children, not just when they're young, but throughout their youth," says Dr. Wade Horn, Assistant Secretary at the Department of Children and Families in the U.S. Health and Human Services States. However, Kathleen Ferrigno, CASA's Director of Marketing, who is also drafting a campaign Family Day-A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children points out, dinner is actually not the only time to build family togetherness.

"A lot of fun activities with children who can make a presence, involvement, and your interest in their lives can be seen," he said. Began the erosion of time with family is also corroborated by a survey of PT Kraft Food Inc. with Oreo products, in collaboration with Ipsos, a market research firm. The survey was conducted during the six weeks between the November-December 2011 with involving more than 7,000 parents with children under the age of 18. The survey was conducted in 20 countries around the world, including Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Spain, UK, USA States, and Venezuela. In Indonesia alone, the survey was conducted by sampling the target face to face with as many as 592 respondents spread in Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan and Bandung. The result, in our country, more than 28% of parents feel they have no time to have fun with the children every day. As many as 37% of parents feel that it's easier for them to arrange a schedule with the job than kids. Even with children, 28% of parents admitted to not interact with each other.