How to Have a Successful Family Meeting

We have family meetings with each of our children every Sunday afternoon. We ask them what's exciting in the week, and what goals they want to work on. And then we give them one thing to work on: taking an instruction, accepting a no answer, getting a consequence, and dropping the subject. When you still have a family meeting, it's part of self-government. It's meant to be like your family is the government. But I found my kids love them because they get attention, and they're attention hoars.