Last class was interesting. But I am really excited for this next class about dating life. Not that I am dating right now, but just to see the differences. Also learning about single life and the stereotype of it was pretty funny, but kinda sad. In my family, that kinda how it is. If you aren't married or dating, what is going on? Is there a problem? It kinda ticks me off. Alot. 

American Beauty

So I had to watch American Beauty for my Psychology class and even though I'd seen parts of it before, I had never watched the whole thing all the way through. If you want to look at bad relationships, watch this movie! It is full of horrible marital relationships and friendships. Thankfully there is one relationship that sort of works out in the end and even though the guy was a total creeper at the beginning, he ends up being one of the most sane people in the movie. He is such a sweetheart and it kind of lightens the load that the end of the movie drops on you. WATCH IT! It's wonderful :)

Tuesday's class on being single

I thought that Tuesday's class was one of the most interesting so far. I've been in a long term relationship since highschool and have never really thought about the way views on being single have changed. I've never thought that being single is a bad thing, but I can understand how when you're main goals were to marry for children and financial stability how everyone felt that it was bad to be single. People would see someone who was single and wonder what was "wrong" with them. Then I got to thinking about some of my friends. I only have one friend who is actually single, and she definitely does not want to be. She goes out with all these different guys and none of the relationships ever seem to last. She says that she likes the guys and spends a lot of time with them, but one after another they all tell her they don't want the "label" of boyfriend and girlfriend. Maybe this is due to the changes in views on remaining single, and so these guys that she starts to see aren't worried about looking bad for not having a girlfriend. I also thought that the chart we looked at on Tuesday was crazy!!

Chart/ Single person

The chart that showed us how many people you have been with if all of your sexual partners have been with the same amount of people as you was pretty scary. I felt that it was in stark contrast from the things in the book. To me the book seemed to point to the direction that the more sex you had the better because it gave you more "varied sexual experiences" and it seemed like the book was representing that in a good light. I also noticed on of my friends in the lecture of people who don't like being single. She feels depressed and like no one will love her and is constantly lowering hwer standards so that she can find someone who will like her. I think the lecture helped me figure out how to talk to her and address her problems so that I could let her know that she was a good person and deserved much better. That perhaps she needs to wait around for the right person instead of actively trying to find him and find herself instead. i think once she is happy with herself she will notice the people who all ready care for her and will be able to find much more because she will believe that she actually deserves it and will be able to see it.

Single life

I just wanted to start off by saying that taking the exam was a releif. It ended up less challenging than I thought it would be. I also enjoyed the essay portion because it gave us a chance to discuss some of the things we have learned in class and also allows us to show that we fully understand some of the material.
Our discussion about single life really made me think. I got to look at both sides, with advantages and disadvantages. I think that in my experience it is good to not be tied down to someone your whole life. You need time alone to find who you are and really get some alone time for yourself to develope into a full person. You do have more control of your life at times when you are single, but I do not think anyone should go thier whole lives without a partner. It is best to test the waters and if you are in a time in your life where you need to be alone than you should have the power to decide that for yourself. I think people today are finding themselves to be more independent, so a lot of people find it easier to be single for longer periods of time. I plan on taking my time with relationships and not rush into anything before making plans for myself... such as finishing school and really finding out what it is I want to do with my life.

single life

I thought the discussion in class on tuesday about single life was very interesting. I also thought it was interesting that alot of our perceptions about single life were really some of the advantages and disadvantages about single life. I did not know that being single could affect your health. When our teacher explained how it made a lot of sense though. I also found it funny when we were talking about the health choices that it really applied to one of the men in our class. Another aspect of this topic in class was getting to know yourself first before getting into a relationship. I never really thought about this and how it would cause such an affect on the relationship and the person. I for one do not think that i change in different relationships. I feel like I act the same way in all of them. I suppose this means that I know who I am and can relate to others through that.

Single life

I really liked our discussion on single life and all the aspects around it. Like many of the others said in the blog, I have really no desire to get married anytime soon. I still have about 2 years left of school, and then student teaching. No where in there would I be able to handle planning or even getting married. I am perfectly happy being who I am and not losing my identity or self to change for someone. Now, when the time comes that it does happen, a relationship, then at that point in time I will really know who I am and what I stand for, and that I won't change. A lot of my cousins though, on my moms side, have gotten married rather young, in their early 20's, and are perfectly happy and have kids. To me though I think they knew who they were and what they wanted and the fact that they dated the person for years. I do think that a lot of people are getting married a lot older now today, compared to years ago. I think that a lot of that has to do with finding a stable life and ground to stand on, whether that be financially, health, job, mental, love for someone else, etc. to be able to be in a realtionship. Those who are waiting might want to make sure all of that is in check, before getting into a realtionship and having these come crashing down while in it. I want to wait a while at least to 25 or so, before I get married for those reasons I mentioned above, but also because of what happened to my brother. He was engaged to a women he had dated for three years, engaged to for one, and had set a date for this summer and had everything planned out, and then she dropped a bomb on all of us and totally blind sighted us. She told my brother she didn't want to marry him and that she had feelings for someone else. All the while before this she started saying she wasn't sure if she was ready, but like the person my brother was, he told her he would wait until she was ready because he loved her that much. So, needless to say it really put a damper on how I look at people and who to date, and trust went out the window. It also made me want to wait and in a sense made me not want to get married for the longest time. So, I hope that I can only learn from that experience and what I learned in class, and make sure I know who I am and what I want first before I take that big step.

Being Single

I thought this weeks class was extremely interesting. Everyone had a different view on wether or not it is good to be single or attached to someone. I really agree with our teacher when he said that it is super important to figure out who you are before you begin a serious relationship. If you can't please yourself, then how are you going to be able to please your partner. I think it is very important in a relationship to not loose your identity. A lot of times when girls get a boyfriend their identity becomes wrapped up in what their boyfriend likes and does. I'm sure I have been like this a time or two, but I really think it is important to stay true to yourself.

Single Life

In class the other day we talked about the many different sterotypes that single people face like loneliness. I personally know a lady who has been single all of her life and she loves it! There is a huge difference about how people percieve being single. Some think of it as the worst thing that could possibly happen in your life and some look at it like a great opportunity. In my family, there has not been anyone that has not married. For me its hard to look at the rest of my life being single because I really havent experienced it any other way. I did like talking about the advantages of being single, because currently thats where I stand. In high school I was in a two year relationship, and didn't really enjoy it. I do feel like I can develop a good sense of myself and learn more about myself by being single. And by knowing that there arent only disadvantages to being single, I can feel more confident about myself.

Single Life

It was interesting to me to talk about single life. Most of my life I've been single, and I agree with a lot of what was said. I think that people who jump from one failed relationship to another need to take time to figure out themselves. Obviously there is a reason that may be occuring, and I believe that if you dont know what makes you happy, then your partner never will. Even in my instance, I have changed so much over the last 5 years, and am now figuring out who I am. If it wasnt for that time of finding myself I would have ended up miserable one day.

Single life

After discussing single life in class today and looking at my family, I think I can definitely relate to the getting married older for love and not economic reasons.  My parents got married when they were juniors in college and they were also each others first serious realtionship.  My parents are constantly asking my brother and I about our relationships and I think secretly pushing us to get married young like they did.  Times have changed because I cannot see myself getting married until I am at least a year out of college.

single life

In class today we talked about single life and all the different aspects of it. And I really started thinking about how my grandparents and even my parents, and aunts and uncles, married young. Yet, all their kids, my siblings, and I are not married. My dad was married by age 25 and my mom by 20. Next year I am turning 20 and I have no need or desire to be married by then. Also I have a few cousins that are in their younger 20's and they also are not married or are ready to be married. I think that it's intresting how marriage has become a thing of emotion and love instead of money, social status, or even security. I also think that that is a good thing.

Single life

During class today I started to realize that it is true how in today's society people get married later on in their life. I am the youngest on both sides of my family. My cousins range from late 20's to early 30's. None of them are married yet but one of them that is 27 is getting married in two weeks. Two other ones are engaged and will be married in the next year. They are all getting married when they are older now and are ready to settle down.

ckoe blog

After reading chapter four I thought it held a lot of really interesting information. The facts about why people stay single and the different types of singles were interesting. I knew that people were getting married at older ages from our discussions in class but I didn't realize that those who are younger and single who may marry are at an advantage compared to those who are older and not married. I just assumed that if they were older and single it was because of a choice.

I'm also axious to see what grade I got on the test. I was kind of confused by some of the questions and was always deciding between two answers!

TEST!

Ok, so Last night I was studying with a couple of my friends and I was getting worried about some of the essay questions. Number 4, I think is going to be the hardest for me. I when over all the notes, and reread some of the book. I hope the test is easy.

My Poor Parents

You know how parents shouldn't have a favorite child? Well that's kind of what happened in my household. My brother was horrible in school, always partied, got an MIP, smokes, moved out for a year and came back home. They want him out of the house and to pick up responsibility for himself. He's trying but the jobs he finds he get's layed off because of cut-backs in the job field. My parents were really sad when I moved out to come here for school. They wished it was my brother and not me. But now that I've changed my mind and I'm going to go to UNO for school next year they are extremely happy. I keep picking up the feeling, though, that they don't want me back in the house (not suprising, look at my brother). I don't know what to make of this, if I should take it how they show it and get an apartment when I move back or stay at home.... who knows...

test today

I have been studying for the test for quite some time and yet i do not feel prepared at all. I feel like a lot of the vocabulary words i might know but i'm sure i will blank when i get to the test and have to fill in the blank... i'm not very good at those. I am really worried for this test. I guess we will know what they will be like after the first one. I have been looking over the essay questions and i think that those shouldn't be too terribly bad. I think that by going to class and listening to the discussions about all of the theories and how to apply them will really help when it comes to the essay questions. I am also hoping that the book questions aren't very hard. I read the book yet i am scared there will be some tricky ones in there that i didn't really catch as i was reading it. Now its time for me to study some more before the test at 2!!

Empty Nest

I totally agreed with what the professor was saying about parents being happy when their children left. i know that a lot of students were shocked and upset by it but to a certain extent I think it is true in every family. I think sometimes kids forget that parents are people too and although they love you they have devoted eighteen years out of their lives to raise you and make life as bearable as possible for you. They just want a break from having to be responsible all the time and having to deal with every little problem you have. I know my parents were ecstatic to see me go. They are in the process of turning my room in to a fitness center and tell me all the time how happy they are because it is so clean now that I am gone. It sounds like they don't care about me except I went to home yesterday just watch t.v. with my mom and when I got home she handed me her credit car, told me to fill up my car, and then gave me a whole new line of face care stuff that she had discovered. then we just watched t.v. for three hours, ate snacks, and talked about our lives. Just because she was happy to see me leave donesn't neccasarily mean that she doesn't love me it just means that she needs her own space so that she can be her own person again. She put in her time with me and now it is time for her to have time to herself.

Empty nest

I thought that Tuesday's class was very interesting. I think that it's kind of weird that parents are happy to see their kids leave. In a way I think that the parents being happy with the kids going out on their own is good because they would get to see their kids grow more, but I also think that it would be hard for them to let go. I am the oldest child of 4 and I hope that my parents were sad to see me leave and will also be sad when my littlest sister leaves for college too. Yet I don't want them devestated either. Also I think what the professor said about kids' attachment to their family grows stronger when they leave the nest is also true. I know that mine has. I call my parents almost everyday, text my sister all the time, and I miss them a lot.

Midlife Myths

I also thought that part of class was very interesting. The one I'm not sure about is the midlife crisis part of the myth. I never really noticed anything changing with my parents, but as far as I knew I thought that it was a very common thing. I thought that nearly everyone went through one, but some people just knew how to handle it better than others. It really suprised me to learn that this isn't the case. It also suprised me to think that parents get excited to have the house back to themselves. I figured that most people would be sad and not know how to handle being alone again.

Myths

I also found our last class very interesting.  I thought alot of parents would be sad after their last child left.  I came to find out that at the end of high school when I was leaving my parents were very excited.   I am the baby of the family and I also have a twin brother.  My mom proceeded to tell me that she was sad there wouldn't be as man people around, but she was super happy because now they can travel whenever and wherever they want.  My parents are very happy and they travel all the time.  So now I know that a lot of the time parents are very excited when their children go off to college.

Myths

So after our last class I found it interesting about common myths. The one that was most interesting to me is the idea that parents really arent so sad after their last child leaves home. To me this is the opposite. My mom always seems to be trying to find new ways to convince me to move back home. So far she has not been completely successful. It will need a really good persuasion before that happens!

Ckoe blog

So I'm quite concerned about the upcoming test. I don't really know how to answer the essay questions very well and there just seems to be an overload of information. I read it and think I know it but then try to quiz myself and feel like it's lost. It will be interesting to see how the first test goes and get a feel of the question format.

Any ideas to help me with the essays?

Children and Marriage

I think that the way children view the world and how things work is very simple. You grow up, nothing really inbetween a young child and an adult. You just go to school then get married and have babies. My mom told me that when my older brother was about three or four he told my mom that she was the most pretty person ever and that he was going to marry her. It is obvious that at that young of an age, my brother did not have a full understanding of marriage and that he viewed my mom as "pretty" and wanted to be her husband. I think this is funny when I think about it, but it also does not suprise me. I am also rarely around younger kids, but I hope that sometime soon I can babysit or work in a day care, talking about how young kids think really makes me want to work with young kids soon!

During this past summer, I babysat two adorable little girls. Both of their personalities are completly different. One was boy crazy and the other wasn't at all. Watching the videos in class the other day really reminded me of the youngest girl who was boy crazy. Every single day she would name off all of the boys that liked her and said that she was going to marry them all. When I told her that most likely wouldn't happen, she looked at me with a big smile and said confidently "Yes it will!" As the older one tried to explain to her why it wouldn't work, she completly ignored her and kept on playing. This isn't the only time I have had an experience like this, but everytime I do it makes me laugh. I love listening to the way children think things will happen and how they are absolutly positive that it won't be any way but their own way. It really made me think about the way that people percive things in different ways at different stages in their life.

Childhood thinking

I thought the Cosby Show video clips were so funny in Tuesday's class.  A little girl I babysit says stuff all the time just like Rudy did in the clip.  She is in first grade and it seems like every time I go over to her house she has a new "boyfriend."  One night when I was putting her to bed she was telling me about her most recent boyfriend.  She explained to me that they both agreed to get married when they were in 5th grade and by the time they were my age (17 at the time) they want to have their first baby.  I asked her where they were going to live and she replied "here" (at her parent's house).  This is clearly an example of how children think so unrealistically about their life when they grow up.

Class Today

Today in class we were talking about how when we are younger we imagine what our lives will be when we get older. Sometimes children imagine themselves getting married and moving far away. Usually their ideas are unrealistic and change throughout the years. When we watched the clip for the Cosby Show, it reminded me of how when I was younger one time my parents asked me who I was going to marry and I said my brother. Obviously that was not realistic and it changed over the years.

Its interesting how some families work, Yesterday my friend got picked up by her parents because she was getting sick and they thought she couldn't drive back to Omaha. Now about two weeks before this, my friend got her belly-button pierced and didn't tell her parents. Then found out when they got to the doctors office. My friend thought they wont be upset because of her sickness. But that didn't happen. They were so upset they were screaming at her all the way back to lincoln..

Unfair...

I find it unfair when parents treat their children differently. My best friend and roommate wasn't sick during high school very often, but whenever she was her parents refused to let her stay home from school. Recently she told me that her parents let her brother stay home the day before because his back hurt. I find this very unfair because she was always really really sick whenever she asked to stay home but she had to go to school. Yet when her brother woke up and said his back hurt her parents let him stay home. Her parents have a very skewed view on family and I really hate them for it. This really bothered me so I thought I should write about it... :/

Body Changes Over the Years

I think it is a little ridiculous how much the "perfect" body image has changed over the years. If you look at the dolls that children play with now and back in our parents day the images of men have gotten increasingly bigger and more muscular and the girls have gotten smaller and more meek. It just shoes how that men are expected to be threatening and in charge while women are supposed to just fade in to the back ground and obey social norms. In magazine ads it is the same as dolls. Women in magazines are usually models that are starving themselves to reach that "perfect" body that the media has told them they need to achieve and the men are usually athletes. The images that people are getting is that it isn't okay to be your own person and that you have to conform to what the media says you need to be. we are always taught to be individuals but are then told what we should be doing as those individuals. Society is sending us contradictory messages and something needs to change.

Single parent families

My aunt and uncle recently got divorced.  I can definitely relate what was said in class about the kids having to do more around the house to their family.  Before they got a divorce, my cousins never had chores and basically were given whatever they wanted.  Then the divorce happened, and within the first month, I already noticed a number of changes.  Without even being told my oldest cousin began doing laundry, they both got jobs, began paying for things themselves and they both just matured a ton from being forced to be so independent.  Another thing I have noticed with their family is how close both my cousins have grown together.  It seems to me like they rely on each other more because there is not always a parent present.  I think they have realized that if they want there family to stay strong, they have to work together to get certain things done around the house.  

Single Parent Homes

I found it very interesting when we were talking about single parent homes on Thursday. I myself have not been in a sinlge parent household therefore I loved learning about it. My household is basically my mom and dad running things together. I can't ask one of them something without the other one making sure it okay on how they answered my question. I can't imagine having just one parent to make all of the desicions themselves or even putting myself as the parent and deciding everything. .I feel like I could do it if i was in the position yet I think I would rather have a husband there to help me out. This is most likely due to the fact that i am custom to the lifestyle of a mom and dad. From our talk in class I thought it sounded almost stressful to be a single parent. Another aspect of raising children on my own would be if i had a boy I would want a man in the house for him to look up to. Not that he couldn't look up to me and see how I handled stress and finance but I would want him to have at least a father figure. I also wouldn't want my children to feel like the have to assume household jobs because I am busy or have other things to do. Of course every parent wants there child to help out but I would be scared they wouldn't feel like they had a childhood.

Single Parent homes

When we were discussing single parent homes in class it really made me look at it truely and see what single parents are really dealing with and I myself, hope it never happens to me. When we learned that 50% of children born in the 80's will at one point live in a single parent home was quite unbelieveable. I couldn't believe that there will be that many children living in a single parent home. It was shocking and really made me wonder what was going on in the home to have it go like this, and what more the child really needed, etc. I just can't believe that this many children and families are seperating and divorcing, it really makes you think about what is going on with this families structure and function and so forth. Now, when I heard that 87% of single parent homes are headed by women it didn't surprise me because you see it all the time. It just makes me upset and sad that the courts sometimes don't think that it is in the better interest of the child to go with the dad, when really it is sometimes, just because he is a male, like we discussed in class. For me sometimes I think the father would be the better parent for the child with some people I know, and you can tell that the children aren't happy with the arrangement.
I have a family member who is a single mom raising three kids on her own and it is very stressful for her and she suffers from emotional distress also. Sometimes it does show when she is around us and at work and how her everday emotions are and her personality has changed a little because of the stress and the emotional and physical drain of it. Her kids have a real hard time following directions and respecting what we tell them, and it shows that they do the same to her. It says "Hey if I can get a way with it from mom, then I bet I can with everyone else". The lack of child support is a definite problem there as well. Her ex-husband is very difficult right now and she is having a hard time getting him to cooperate. He keeps getting new jobs and quiting and so forth and so things keep changing and she gets more and more upset with him and emotionally drained from his antics. I just hope that I never have to deal with this and that as a family we continue to support her and give her the help that she needs to get through this.

Adoption

In my family, we have never adopted. I have no cousins, grandparents, aunts, or uncles that are adopted. I know of a family who has eight children that are adopted which just amazes me. Our families are close and when we see them I always notice how differently they react together and how they have had to adjust to the different personalities and cultures that they all come from. In the future I would like to adopt children because I think it would truely be a great experience. In class it just really got me thinking about it, and even though having a child of a different culture or race would be different, I think it would really open up my families eyes and be a great way to learn how to handle different situations.

Single parent families

Alot of my friends have a single parent family. Most of them have their mom as the person who has full custody of them. In class on Thursday, I realized how much what we were talking about described my friends and their families. Alot of them have more responsibilities than I have in my family and take care of their siblings without their parents making them do that. They help out in their families to make their parents roll a little bit easier for them.

race/ethnicy

After hearing about how our professor has a child of a different race, I thought about what I would do if I was in our professor's position. I believe that I would push my adpted child towards my own, and my spouce's, race. I believe that I would do that because he or she would have grown up in that racial setting. If I would do that, life for him or her would be easier; including his or her job, social life, and other aspects of life. Although this would be difficult for me to decide, I would stand by my decision of raising him or her as though they always belonged to my racial background.

Divorce article

I was going through some old Lincoln Journal Stars and I found an article that interested me. After I read it, I realized that it should have been common sense, but it was just one of those things I'd never really thought about. The article was from January 15th of this year, and was titled "The holidays are over, is it time for a divorce?" The article discussed how a lot of couples who are thinking about getting a divorce, will put it off around Thanksgiving and Christmas, but then do it after the holidays are over. My parents went through a rough spot a couple years ago, and although they did not actually get divorced, I do remember that around the holidays they never mentioned it and seemed to be perfectly happy in their marriage. In February of the next year was a much different story. They barely even talked to each other. Thankfully, my parents were able to work out their differences and stay married, and now they seem to be doing great. It was just odd to me that I never really considered why it all seemed better over the holidays.

Genogram

This genogram assignment though quite confusing is very interesting. I called my parents to get a few dates and it was interesting to realize how distant our families are. My dad didn't really know the dates of his siblings births or when they married their spouses because we have no contact with that side of the family. But it was interesting to see how close my family is even though our relationships with our distant relatives are not strong. It's really showing me different aspects of my family and how we really aren't as messed up as we could be!

I am nervous about this assignment because I am not sure how I am going to clearly show all the relationships and everything else that will need to be included. I'm sure I'll have to do it over and then over again!

Genogram

I've already done my family's genogram on a piece of notebook paper. I find it really interesting because it made my family actually seem smaller than I thought. I just kept it to my first cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents, but when we are all together it seems like a lot more people than when I write it down. My family genogram also makes me realize how many divorces we have had in my family, it goes back to all of my grandparents, plus there were a lot of affairs. It makes me think of how my family will grow in the future and what other things will be present.

Genogram

I'm going to have an awesome time with this family genogram. I know some stuff about my extended family, but not a lot and this really gives me a chance to learn about them. There are a lot of adoptions in my family and early pregnancies and lots of remarries. It's going to be a complicated confusing mess of lines and I'm so excited to work on it :).

Genogram

I am kind of excited to start this project. I am a little afraid though about the amount that is going to be on my poster. I know all about my mother's side of the family but nothing about my father's side. I never met my biological father and don't really know anything about him, so I hope that my mother's side with be enough. 

Chapter Three & Barbie

My friend and I read this chapter together and it sparked a lot of conversation among us. It really emphasizes all of the thing that we are talking about in my Women in Popular Culture class as well about how Women's roles in society are considered less important or are given less worth than men's. One thing that we really enjoyed was the small blurb about how girls are expected to play with Barbies and that Barbies represent the ideal of what those little girls should aspire to be when they grow up. We decided to look up barbie. We noted that Barbie when she first came out was 5'9'' and only 110 pounds. She has gotten even worse since then. Her measurements are ridiculous with a bust of 39 a waist of 18 and hips of around 33 inches. There is a 1 in 1000000 chance that someone will actually have the equivalent measurements of a Barbie. However, this is what every little girl is supposed to be striving for. Although Barbie has had some empowering jobs in the past such as Astronaut or Vet. if you go look in a typical target or Walmart you will most likely find her in a ball gown, a swimsuit, or as a baby sitter, an expectant mother, or as a fairy. In fact when Barbie was invented she was supposed to be a fashion model and was labeled by the outfits she wore rather than her occupation or life accomplishments. This doesn't exactly seem like my ideal role model.

Genogram

This project of the genogram will be pretty enjoyable. Other than the fact that I have a pretty large family, and charting all of them may be kind of difficult. However when it is all finished I think that it will be pretty neat to see. It will be interesting on mine, because along with mapping out my family, I will also be including the history of cancer in our family. Amongs my dad and his siblings, out of the five, three have had some sort of cancer, along with two of my grandpas, two cousins and my sister. Its hard to believe how cancer affects so many lives.

Genogram

I think this project will be a lot of fun. I really do not have a very big family other than my family, where there is me and 4 other kids, and my cousins. I'm a bit worried about not being able to find certain dates, because there are certain people that passed away in my family that we have never really brought up and I'm not sure whether or not I should approach the subject now. My dad's father and his brother passed away a long time ago, I never even met either of them. We've never brought it up to my dad, his mom, or his sisters. I've asked other members but no one seems to know exactly when they passed away or how old they were. Other than that, I'm excited to do the project. I do not think mine will be very interesting because I already know just about everything that has ever happen. No one in my family has drug or alcohol issues (which is a good thing), and there has only ever been 2 divorces in my family. When I was working on this project last night it actually hit me how much everyone is aging....my own parents are almost 50 now!!! It's so weird to think of them getting old.

Genogram

I am very excited to start this genogram project.  My dad side of the family is rather small because he only has two other sisters. So that side of the family will be pretty easy to document.  My moms side of the family is very large.  She grew up with 9 brothers and sisters.  When I was little though, one of her brothers died in a car accident.  I don't really remember him, and I hope to learn more about him through this project.  I have a lot of cousins, because all of my moms brothers and sisters had four or more kids.  Therefore our family gatherings are a lot of fun.  I think this project is going to be very interesting.

Genogram

In my family I have a total of 26 cousins. I have three siblings, and even though my family is huge, there is no divorce or adoption. There is also no drug addiction or abuse, which makes my genogram fairly easy to make. It will be very simple, but big. The years that my aunts and uncles got married I'm unaware of so it will be neat to see when they did. My family is really close and by making this genogram it will allow me to know more about them and find out a little bit more about my family history.

Genogram

Well for my genogram I think it should be very interesting for people to understand. My mom has a big family, including lots of cousins and aunts and uncles. My dad has a family of six and 2 others who were basically adopted. My mom's side is quite interesting because my grandpa was married 3 times. All of my grandmothers have gone and past, the most recent, who me and my siblings knew the best and loved lots, died this summer with a long fight with cancer. My biological grandma died when my mom was 12 and then my grandpa got married not to long after. My mom is the oldest and has two brothers. From the second marriage my mom finally gained a sister, and another brother. My grandpa adopted them. I wouldn't change it for the world. Soon she too passed away when I was young and though we didn't know her to well, I still miss her. My grandma who just passed away was pretty much our grandma. Anywho finding out about my biological grandma since I never met, her should be interesting and what there is to know about her. It will also be interesting to find out about my great grandparents because they are all deceased. I am intersested to see if I can make comparisons with them to my own parents and grandparents and see if that is where they get their personalities and such. My dad has 6 kids in his family including him. They all have quite interesting stories, and that should be a fun part to learn about. I am excited to learn about my family and where they came from and where the illnesses and that stemed from as well.

Genogram

I am actually very excited to start on my genogram. My moms side of the family is actually quite small and very normal. My fathers side on the other hand is interesting. I would not say they are complicated because of all of the very comlicated stories we heard in class so just interesting. My dad has two sisters and 3 brothers. Out of his 3 brothers two of them have died. One of them was in a car accident and him and his wife were killed. I was very young when this happened so I do not know much about it so I am excited to use this opportunity to learn more about it. His other brother was an alcoholic, which I just recently figured out. He then committed suicide one night when his wife and daughter were out of town. The next morning was the morning of his daughter-in-laws baby shower, therfore his son came to get him and found him that morning. I am looking forward to finding out more about this sore subject in the family as well. I would like to find out if he had any other problems then alcoholism. This project is a good way for me to find out many questions I have been having about my dads side of the family.

Genogram

My genogram is not going to be interesting at all.  I have probably one of the smallest families ever.  I have a grandma and grandpa on each side, 1 aunt, 1 uncle, 2 cousins and then my family which consists of my mom, dad and brother.  There have never been any divorces, drug problems, etc.  I think because mine is going to be so small I might do some research and go farther back into my great grandparents and their families.  I never knew how much you could find out from a genogram.  Hopefully by going farther back in my family's history, I will be able to find out even more about my family than I already know.

genogram

I think that my genogram will be intresting. I don't have any drug addictions or alcohol problems in my family, but I do have a few divorces every now and then. Those don't make my family genogram interesting but they do add depth to it. I think that filling out my genogram will help me figure out parts of my mom's side that I don't quite understand. Also it will help me understand parts of a family and their connections in my future job. And possibly why the child or children behave like they do or why the parent's behave like they do.

Family Structure

I have done a geneology when I was in middle school and I did not realize how they show your family's structures. I just did the assignment and looked up who the people in my family were but now I get to dig deep in my family's history. I get to look and see if they were divorced, any problems with them or what their relationships are with other people in the family. It will be interesting to do this project and learn about my family.