So whenever I do family therapy, I almost always bring up how family is our constant. Even if you run away and never see them again, the not having them in your life impacts you. Family is unavoidable.
Family is a weird kind of love. Even when you hate someone, there's some sort of attachment there. You don't hate people you don't care about or who don't impact your life some how.
So I say
1. Parents love your children. Be there when they're young because those first few years pack a wallop. And sometimes I think those teenage years pack an even bigger wallop. When they're teens, you're teaching them how to relate with adults. Of course they're teens and ridiculous a lot but they're learning from their interactions with you and your interactive together as parents. Love.
2. Siblings, be patient with each other. And you do grow up. You'll need to choose whether you love each other and you want to forget all the mean crap you did as kids or look at it through roast glasses or you'll keep hating each other and make every family ever awful. Love is usually easier.
And that's all the unsolicited advice I can think of presently.
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