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Your family can provide a safe environment for family members to share feelings, thoughts, frustrations, fears, hopes and dreams. What's the single-best thing you can do to improve family communication? Make a daily effort to talk with each family member alone and together as a family.

Below are additional ideas that can help you improve family communication:

1. Become a better listener. Listening is as important as talking. When you listen well to family members, you encourage them to talk about what is most important to them. Sometimes a person can find a solution to a problem or discover the source of stress just by talking. For more effective listening you should:

2. Improve your talking skills. Negative talking skills can stifle communication. To express yourself more effectively you should:

Additional ideas that may work well for your family:

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