Family Hygge: 54 Practical ways for Creating Danish Hygge in Your Home Today

By Helena Olsen

Why is Denmark voted the happiest place on Earth? Would you like to learn more about the Danish art of Hygge? Would you like to make your home more hygge for the family?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then Family Hygge is the perfect book for you. Hygge is a Danish word that covers being together as a family, a sense of belonging, living in the moment as well as feeling cosy, warm and protected. In short, it is about enjoying life.

This book offers practical tips on how you can create the perfect Hygge family environment starting today. Each tip is simple and easy to carry out. The 54 tips inside explain activities and steps that can be taken by anyone interested in enjoying all the benefits of hygge for their family. The tips here are fun to implement and will bring immediate results for your own home.

Here's a taste of what you will find inside:

- An explanation of hygge and all its benefits
- How to make a hygge mindset with your family
- How to create a hygge home, inside and out
- Different hygge activities for all the seasons
- Hygge steps for children that take less than a minute
- How to be creative and use your passions with hygge
- And much, much more!

If you would like to create the perfect hygge home for your family with simple to follow, practical tips, then this is the ideal book for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Helena Olsen
• Release date: Aug 14, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386510147

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Family Hygge: 54 Practical Tips for Creating Danish Hygge in Your Home Today

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Helena Olsen

PUBLISHED BY: Helena Olsen

Copyright © 2018 All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced in any format, by any means, electronic or otherwise, without prior consent from the copyright owner and publisher of this book.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 – The Hygge Mindset

Chapter 2 – Hygge Relaxation

Chapter 3 – Hygge Games

Chapter 4 – Modern Hygge

Chapter 5 – Hygge Outside

Chapter 6 – Hygge Baking

Chapter 7 – Creative Hygge

Chapter 8 – Hygge Writing

Conclusion

Introduction

Why is Denmark consistently voted the happiest country in the world? The answer may lie in the Danish word – hygge. Pronounced hoo-gah, it does not have a perfect English translation. However, the art of being cosy together is a good place to start. Hygge is so engrained within Danish society that it is impossible to imagine life there without it. It is at the very heart of the people, culture and society.

A simplistic definition of hygge is cosy, however it encompasses far more than that. It is about being together, consciously feeling connected to family and friends, safe, protected and happy. It promotes well-being and positivity over negativity. It boosts confidence and self-esteem. It is a way of life where the whole family can feel more content, relaxed and enjoy life together.

This book will show you how to create hygge in your own home for yourself and your children. Hygge does not need to be complicated or difficult to achieve. There are many practical steps that can be taken to create that feeling of warmth, togetherness and happiness. The tips inside are practical actions that take little time and everyone can do. While each step is short in itself, the cumulative effect is significant. Actively thinking about how to make your home more hyggeligt and performing simple, practical actions has a highly significant impact upon your home and family.

The following 54 tips will show you how you can achieve hygge with your family simply and with the minimum of fuss. do not require a radical overhaul of your household or your everyday practices. Each step is simple to carry out and most importantly of all, is enjoyable for you and the whole family.

Of course, you don’t need to carry out every step here straightaway. Some can be stored away and used later or adapted for your own home. Each tip however will help to make everyone feel they can take some time, more easily enjoy each other’s company and feel safe, comforted and happy. In short, all these tips will allow the whole family to start enjoying all the great benefits of hygge today.

Chapter 1 – The Hygge Mindset

Much of hygge is about creating an environment, both physical and otherwise, in which everyone can feel positive about themselves and life in general. All the tips in this book are designed to help engineer this environment easily and in a fun way for children. This chapter explains some of the ways in which we can make a hygge mindset for children and the entire family, creating a household where the principles of hygge can become established and flourish easily.

Tip #1 – Give your time

Time is the most precious gift of all we have to give. Reserving a slot in the day or an entire day of the week for the family, lets children gain a sense of how valued they are. When they recognise that everything else stops at 6pm on a weekday evening or a Saturday afternoon or an evening meal on Tuesdays, they will also value this time and look forward to it. It is both reassuring and comforting that time is reserved for them and that the hours the family spends together take primary importance.

Sit down as a family and ensure that you can find two or three times a week when you can guarantee you will all be free and can meet. Compare diaries and reserve these slices of time for each other. Perhaps you will all cook a meal together or play a game or go for a walk or bike ride together. The activities will change over time and in different seasons, but it is the explicit reservation of your time that will make the difference.

You can make it more exciting by planning ahead and talking together about what the next activity will be. Let everyone chip in and volunteer their own favorite pastime. Agree what you will all be doing the following week, giving everyone a chance to look forward and