This month, sit down with your family and use the questions on the worksheet below to brainstorm how you can apply Habit 6 in your family!

As a family, think about projects that you would like to do around your home or community. Some ideas could include planting flowers or a garden, cleaning out a room or space in your home, cooking a meal together, or beautifying a place in your neighborhood. Make a plan for how you can work together on this project, using everyone's strengths and contributions, and do it!

Perform some experiments that teach the strength of synergy, such as the following:

• Ask your children to tie their shoes with one hand. It cannot be done! Then ask another family member to help with one hand. It works! Point out how two working together can do more than one, or even two, can working separately.
• Give your children a popsicle stick. Ask them to break it. They probably will be able to do so. Now give them four or five sticks stacked together and ask them to do the same. They probably won’t be able to do it. Use this as an illustration to teach that the family together is stronger than one person alone.
• Let your children plan a meal together. Encourage them to come up with dishes such as soup, salad, or a casserole where the blending of a number of different ingredients creates something entirely new.
• Plan a family talent night. Invite all family members to share their musical or dancing talent, a sports performance, scrapbooks, writings, drawings, woodwork, or collections. Point out how wonderful it is that we all have different things to offer, and that an important part of creating synergy is learning to appreciate others’ strengths and talents.

Check out these books that demonstrate Habit 6! Read or watch a read aloud together and talk about how the characters work together.