Your story – Heather Scott

In your experience what makes a happy family?

I feel that my parents, my sister and I were a happy family, we weren’t a touchy feely family and I don’t think my parents constantly tolds us that they loved us but we knew we were loved. There were arguements between all of us but with human beings who care for each other I think that is natural, I think you are more likely to argue with people you care about than with those who mean nothing to you.  We were told off when we did anything wrong but we always knew that we were all there for each other and would stand up for each other come what may. My parents were fair in their treatment of us, there were never favourites with them and they were always honest with us and with each other, I think honesty in families is important. I don’t mean things like telling children Father Christmas is not real or telling them things that would spoil their childhood, but not telling an untruth just to save face or to cover up something that you have done when you shouldn’t have, or not done something when you should have.                                                                                       We didn’t have loads of holiday, in fact I only know of three short breaks that went on because we couldn’t afford them, but they did other things with us, mainly things that didn’t cost a lot of money, like going for long walks as a family and playing games, mainly card games but we did have a couple of board games.                              Each family is different but I think for any happy family showing care for each other and honesty between each other and reliability is paramount.