Front Row Dads with Jon Vroman The Family Covenant: Simple to Create. Surprisingly Powerful.
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Mar 19, 2026 Mike Green, facilitator and small-group leader who guides the conversation. Samuel Shreve, a dad who built a practical family covenant used daily with his kids. They explain how to create simple, behavior-focused family promises. They cover involving young children, tools like “ouch/oops,” turning values into concrete language, and keeping the covenant alive with regular check-ins.
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Family Covenant Is Promises Not Rules
- A family covenant is a set of mutual promises that define how members will show up for one another.
- Samuel learned the covenant idea from church small groups where they read the promises at each meeting to shape behavior.
Convert Values Into Concrete Promises
- Turn abstract family values into concrete promises focused on behaviors you can coach.
- Samuel suggests mapping a value like integrity to a doable promise such as "we do what we say we're going to do."
We Wrote Our Covenant On A Giant Sticky Note
- Samuel drafted their covenant on a giant sticky note after dinner with input from his wife and kids.
- The family created lines like saying please and thank you together, emphasizing this wasn't only "dad's commandments."