Your family can be in the same house and still feel miles apart - pulled by pings, packed schedules, and the easy escape of personalised screens. The Focus Family is a practical guide to building a shared culture that protects attention and closeness without turning home into a constant battle over rules. Zara El-Mirren shows how to define clear family values and turn them into everyday defaults, so the good moments are not left to chance. You will learn how to set tech boundaries that actually hold, create repeatable family rituals (especially around a device-free dinner), and use simple family meetings to solve problems without blame. Along the way, you will build healthier attention habits as a household, with realistic screen time rules that evolve with age and season. This book is for parents and carers who want more presence, warmth, and cooperation - and who would like to stop feeling like the only person fighting for connection. Whether you are starting from scratch or trying to reset after a drift, you will come away with language you can use, routines you can repeat, and weekend traditions that make your family feel like a team again.
The Focus Family
SKU: 9789377787448
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- Zara El-Mirren writes about the everyday architecture of family life: the small choices that decide whether a home feels hurried and scattered or calm and connected. Her work is grounded in lived experience of modern pressure - endless notifications, full calendars, and the emotional labour of keeping relationships steady - and in the belief that families do not need grand transformations to find one another again. They need clearer shared values, kinder boundaries, and routines that make presence easier than escape. She is drawn to practical tools: scripts you can actually say, rituals that survive a difficult week, and simple agreements that reduce repeating arguments. Her approach respects difference between families and within them, including different temperaments, ages, and household structures. She writes with a steady emphasis on dignity: children deserve guidance without humiliation, and adults deserve support without the expectation of perfection. A recurring thread in her thinking is the way older traditions protected attention without calling it that: the unbroken circle of a shared meal, the quiet of a weekly rest day, the stories passed down while hands were busy. Zara brings that sensibility into contemporary life, translating it into flexible practices that fit real homes now - so attention and closeness become not an occasional luxury, but a shared way of living.
