May 02, 2021   |   Tagged Parenting

The Family Energy Crisis and How to Create Stronger Families

NBC Basketball Camps

NBC Basketball Camps provides encouragement for parents and campers who aspire to have amazing families. Being a fantastic family member requires the discipline to build quality energy habits at home. Unfortunately, it is easy to build destructive energy habits such as isolating, avoiding conversation, and fighting. Without a plan, we tend to make poor choices when we are tired, lonely, hungry or angry. Home often is the place we drop our guard. We return after a long day hoping to let down especially during the basketball season. We can become angry because our house or people in it don’t meet our expectations. We tend to pick poor ways to improve our energy:

• Sugar—makes us more tired
• TV and media—increases brain fatigue
• Fighting—temporarily boosts adrenaline and makes us feel better but then we feel more isolated and in pain.
• Pain outside the home such as losing a game or not enough playing time saps our energy

Solve this energy crisis by creating healthy energy habits for your home. Drink water and eat something that fuels your body immediately. Do not try and problem solve until you have finished dinner. Most arguments and fighting happen right before the dinner hour. Postpone any potentially argumentative issues until after you eat. Carve out time to be together as a family for fun conversation. Do not use this time to strategize schedules, or “to do” lists. Use this time to laugh and dream together.

Here are some great conversations to have together:

• What has brought you joy lately?
• Name someone you admire and why.
• Recall a favorite family memory together.
• What is one of your favorite—sports moments, books, characters, movies, places to travel?

The possibilities are limitless. Building a habit of fun time together will increase your energy and love for life. Your family deserves your best self, not the leftovers. Your energy to build a great family will be energy that comes back to you tenfold.

About NBC Basketball Camps
NBC Camps are designed to help you become your best on and off the court. We partner with families to encourage parents in the greatest job on earth. If your son or daugther loves basketball enough to work hard, we would love to work with them at NBC Camps. Find out more about our summer camps at www.nbccamps.com.