Your family has a culture. Do you know what your culture is? Do you even like it? How can you shape it so your faith and values are woven into it?
I’m so glad you asked! You want to create a warm, welcoming, gospel-centered family, and today’s guest will help you!
In this interview, wife, mom, podcaster, and family culture coach Kimberly Amici shares with us:
- How to shape your family culture one day at a time,
- Ways to create an environment where kindness — not rivalry and bickering — thrives among your kids
- And how to give and receive feedback from your kids.
I love how Kimberly made family culture not so scary and that we don’t need some big announcement or major shifts, we can simply build our culture one day at a time.
Key Quotes
- “Everything our family did was good, but we weren’t going all together.” – Kimberly Amici
- “You can change your family culture.” – Kimberly Amici
- “Identify what you’re already doing well.” – Kimberly Amici
- “We get to do these things because we’re working together.” – Kimberly Amici
- “Find consistent practices that are non-negotiable.” – Kimberly Amici
- “These small things that we do day in and day out are what’s building culture.” – Kimberly Amici
- “When our kids come to us, are we pointing them back to Jesus? And if we consistently do that, the culture is building itself.” – Kimberly Amici
- “Because of the atmosphere we create, our kids are open to what we have to say.” – Kimberly Amici
- “Honor what your kids have to say and ask questions.” – Kimberly Amici
- “Listen. Apply what you’re learning. Continue to ask questions. Be humble.” – Kimberly Amici
- “My biggest lesson with grace has been not making everything all about me.” – Kimberly Amici
- “I have to make sure that I don’t choose to extend grace only when it’s convenient.” – Kimberly Amici
- “I have to understand my why because that fuels me to be efficient so I can show up for my kids.” – Kimberly Amici
Previous Episodes Mentioned
- Episode #66: How your Enneagram type impacts your parenting
- Episode #67: Easy and practical ways to give your kids grace
- Episode #68: How to create a family shaped by grace in a conversation with Gary Morland
- Episode #69: How to parent out of love, not fear with Kevin A. Thompson
- Episode #70: Helping your kids enjoy Jesus with Kirk + Debbie Freeman
Mentioned in the Podcast
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- Build Your Best Family Summit
- Build Your Best Family Summit All-Access Pass
- Subscribe to Jill’s weekly “the good + the grace” email
- Kimberly’s Family Retreat Packet
- Kimberly’s Family Culture Worksheet
- Cleaning House by Kay Wills Wyma
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- The Build Your Best Family podcast
About Kimberly Amici
Kimberly is known for her creativity, strong faith, and commitment to living life with purpose and passion. She is an entrepreneur, designer, and podcast producer.
Through Kimberly’s Build Your Best Family, people live a life of purpose with the ones they love and become the family they were meant to be. She does all this through her podcast, courses, and personal coaching.
Kimberly writes at http://www.kimberlyamici.com, and lives with her husband Carl and their 3 teenagers in the NYC suburbs.
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