Sisters

Hello again! This week in family relations we read an article about having sisters. The research article noted that having a sister-whether older or younger—can lead to a better emotional health. This made me think of my sisters. I have 3 amazing sisters who are some of my best friends. They have helped me through a lot and have always been there for me. I love them so much! 

Here is a link to the article: http://news.byu.edu/archive10-aug-siblings.aspx

Culture and Family

Hello again! This week in class we talked about how different cultures effect the family and how families affect culture. Each family has its own culture with its own sets of values, beliefs, traditions, and rules. We looked at the "unspoken rules" in our families. This is a really fun exercise! For example, is there one parent you go to when you want one thing and another when you want something else? Do you have a certain place you sit at the dinner table but you were never assigned to sit there?

We also talked about how many families together makeup a larger culture. This could be based on religion, geographic area, social class, or any other number of things. Each culture has positives and negatives, some more than others, but each is valuable.

I really like the following song and I think it fits in with this topic. Whether it is accepting family members, other families, or other cultures, we can find good in everyone. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDq7aFpV76E

I hope you all have a great week!

Healthy Relationships

Hello Everyone! This week we talked about relationships within a family. We explored the idea that some relationships are healthier then others. One thing that really made a lot of sense to me was that in order to make a family stable you need to make the marital (husband and wife) unit stable first. When the husband and wife have a strong bond with each other then everything else will fall into place. Throughout the week I kept thinking about how each thing we learned about related back to The Family:A Proclamation to the World. This is an amazing document that is written by inspired men. I encourage you to take a look at the following link: http://www.lds.org/topics/family-proclamation I hope you all have a wonderful week!

Family Relations

This week in my family relations class we talked about recent trends in the family. Some included delaying marriage, more people living alone for many different reasons, more mothers being employed, the increased number of births to unmarried women, more people never marrying, and how household size is decreasing in the United States. Our world is starting to change in many ways.

Some of the ideas that I found really interesting as we talked about the topic are as follows:

• Some people in cohabiting relationships have a certain expectation of their significant other before they get married and a different expectation after they get married. We talked about how this can cause big problems in these kinds of marriages.  
• We also talked about how marriage is more frequently being viewed as a capstone to a life instead of a cornerstone. My belief is that a marriage is needed as a foundation or cornerstone to be built upon. I recently got married. One thing that my mother told me that I think is very important is that now you have someone to go through life with. When you get married you have someone to rely on, share hard times and good times, and who loves you for who you are. 
• One personal insight that I gained from this week is how important my parents example has been in my life. As we talked about these different trends I realized that my knowledge started with the teachings of my parents and became mine as I lived my life and experimented on what they had said. I gained my own knowledge and views but so many of them come from the knowledge gained from my parents.I hope that I can be this example for good someday.

Just some thoughts! I hope that you all have a wonderful week!

Introduction

Hello everyone! This is the space on my blog that I created for my family relations class! Check back soon for new updates as the class gets under way!