Family Developmental Stages and Tasks:
Infant/Preschool Family
Potty Training
Managing Illness
Sleep schedule
Tantrums
Daycare/babysitter Financial Support
Nighttime
Inconsolable Cries
Feedings
School Age Children
School Attendance Managing
Mornings
Choice of Friends Exposure to
Internet
Riding the Bus
Peer Relationships
Bedtime
Social Media
Family Chores
Managing Work
Teenage/Adolescent Family
Sexual behavior
Curfew, Dating
School Attendance Language
Morning Routine
Clothing
Setting Limits
Part Time Job
Where-a-bouts
Consequences
Lots of doctors visits Building a care taking
team
Time with Friends
Managing discipline
Household tasks
Couple Intimacy
Baby Proofing home Constant Supervision
Homework
Rules re: Sexual
Behavior
Rules about Free
time
After School Hours
School Meetings
Nutrition
Beginning Couple
Maintaining
friendships
Resolve conflict
Launching
Preparing youth 17
& up for
independence
Consequencescan you make
them stick
Single Parenting
Identifying time
for self
School Behaviors
Drugs, bad language
Peer Relationships
Orientation,
experimentation
Chores and Money
Activities (extracurricular)
Alcohol and Drugs
School Performance
Managing Free Time Cars (trans., driver ed)
Providing Freedom
Allow to learn from
mistakes
Blended- Divorce and Remarriage Families
Managing conflict Property
Who is providing
care
Negotiate family
Visitation
Legal & financial
rules
arrangements
issues
Roles
Enforcing Rules
Working as a team
/relationships
Post-Parental Family
Health Issues
Financial stability
Consequences, who
enforces
Transportation to
Activities
Coming home from School
Managing isolation
Agreement on Authority
Maintain couple
relationship
New blended family rituals
Home safety
issues
Couple issues
Assisting in some
parenting
Physical conditioning
Deciding to have
children
Using the
bathroom
Managing attention
needs
In- Laws
Time spent with each
family
Boundaries with relatives
Negotiate what
rules still apply if
living at home
Accepting their
significant others
How do you prepare
for your own later
life goals
Change in
membership
How much individual
support should they still
maintain
Do you bail them out if
they get in over their heads
Identify resources
to assist
Filling role of both
parents
Financial hardship with
one income