What brings us together?

What is it that brings the family together? What can we do to become a tighter unit? This week, in class we talked about the history of work. Back during the 1800s and even at the turn of the century it seemed that the importance of family and their unity was better than it is today. Back then, families typically were farmers. See the family were famers, not just the father. It was a whole family affair. Today we see Dad and even Mom now leaving to go to work. But at this time. Work was at home, home was work. It took to whole family to keep the home and farm running. Siblings weren't just related, they were best friends. They learned together, they played together and they worked together. The family did everything together. Mom worked more with the daughters, she taught them, passed on her talents to them. Dad did the same, he taught his sons how to manage the farm, how to tend to the cattle and fields. The family understood that it took all of them to unify the home and family. But how do we apply that to today? Well we can take similar tactics. We can work together more. Cook dinner together, eat dinner together. I listened to a mormon messages video. Robert D. Hales speaks about the importance of eating together as a family and how much his own mother stressed it's importance. We need to start doing the little things again. It may be a different age and a different time, but we can still be a unified family like it was before. If you are interested in this video here is the link, I would recommend it to anyone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cxHd773Ya0