It started as a slightly awkward pizza night. Chidi and Amara Okafor had read the Family Vision Meeting guide on Family Street and decided to try it with their three kids, ages 8, 10, and 13. “We expected eye-rolls,” Amara admits. “We got them, too. For about ten minutes.”
The format is simple: everyone — parents included — names one dream for the year, one family dream gets chosen together, and everything goes up on the kitchen wall. The Okafors' first family dream was a camping trip to the Grand Canyon.
“The magic was putting the parents' dreams on the wall next to the kids',” says Chidi. “They watched me write down that I wanted to finish my certification. Suddenly goals weren't something adults assign to children. They're something our family does.”
The wall chart got checkmarks all year. The 13-year-old saved for her first camera. The 8-year-old learned to swim. And one evening in October, the 10-year-old asked Chidi how the certification was going — he'd fallen two weeks behind, and his son noticed. “Accountability from a fourth-grader is undefeated,” he laughs.
They stood at the South Rim in June, a year almost to the day from that first pizza night. The photo from that morning is now the header of their family's dream wall — with next year's dreams written underneath it.
“Our ten-year-old asked me how MY goal was going. I nearly dropped the dishes.”
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