Speaker on Tuesday

I really enjoyed the speaker on Tuesday. He was really interesting and it was really helpful actually. I learned a lot more about dealing with people who are run aways or what you should do with them. He showed pictures that really grossed me out and i would not care to see them again but it got his point across. I liked how he showed us not to judge someone who is 'homeless' because it may or may not really be there fault. It reminded me of when i saw a homeless man standing on the road by walmart when i went the other night. I always feel bad for them.

Final Exam

Im hoping the final exam is like all the other tests.  The essay questions don't look too bad and I thought the information we learned this last section was interesting so it should be easier to remember. 

traditional responses

Today in class we talked about the different types of responses. I feel like you use each type of response but it just depends on what situation you are in because that allows you to decide which form of response to choose. When I think about it I feel like I use the advice-giving and reassurance the most. Sometimes I use the personal experience but it usually depends what type of situation the person I am talking to is in.

Guest Speaker

While I did find him interesting was I the only one who was a little scared? I was in the first row and I felt like he was yelling at me. The information was interesting however, even if I didn't necassarily enjoy all of the pictures he showed us.

Guest Speaker

I have seen him twice now and he still did an awesome job! He came and talked to my special ed class last semester. He has so much energy. I like the fact he isnt into scare tactics but into the truth. I never realized that homelessness was such a problem here in Lincoln Ne. I just figured it would be bigger problem in California or somewhere bigger than here. All those crazy stories about people on drugs, the homelessness, and the stds is all a little shocking. It definately gives you something to think about.

Guest Speaker

The speaker that came to talk on tuesday was quite interesting. It was an interesting way to find out about Meth and to see what it does to people. The pictures really put a different spin on it and show it in a whole new light. Learning about meth bugs was quite interesting too. The way that it makes people that paranoid to think that they really do have bugs crawling in their skin. Also, finding out about how homeless people live and what they have too do to survive is also a sad story. The way the homeless have to build makeshift houses and live out in freezing temperatures is hard to fathom as well. I thought that he did a really good job with the presentation and had a lot of energy and was lots of fun. I had a family member that had a problem with drugs and seeing what it did to him was really scary. The effects from the drugs that he showed on the screen were like the ones my family member went through. Another thing talked about was the reasons why girls run more frequently then boys, and it was quite disturbing knowing some of the reasons. Learning that women run for the reasons they do is sad and I can only hope that the girls that run get out of their situations and have a better life.

Guest Speaker

Wow.... he had so much energy!!! He was so all over the place but knew exactly what to present and how to present it. He made me really want to join the program to help the homeless. I'm really glad there are people like him in the world. They make the world a much better place.

The last week

Im really not too worried about the final in this class. I think that it will be pretty easy. I did a lot better on my paper than I thought I would. I wasnt quite sure what they were looking for, but I guess I must have did it correctly!

speaker

I really liked the speaker that came on Tuesday. I felt that it was very interesting and that I learned a lot. It was kind of gross to see all the pictures of what meth can do to you but I also feel that those pictures will help people see what a bad choice it is to use any type of drug. Also I like when we have guest speakers because I think that it mixes things up and makes us more informed about all the different things around us.

Guest Speaker

I was really glad that the guest speaker showed up today. I was almost ready to leave class, but then he walked in the door. I know that this may sound weird but I really liked when he showed the different pictures of the meth users and of the "homes" that the homeless people around Lincoln had built under bridges. I feel that this is a topic that many times people don't think about. And when he showed the meth pictures, it was really scary to see what it can do to you but I feel like many times that is a way to make kids and adults think about what may happen if they start doing drugs. Knowing that the prevalence of these issues occur here in Lincoln is also very important. I would say the the guest speaker really did open my eyes to the problems that Lincoln faces as well. Homelessness is found everywhere not just in big cities.

speaker

It was really good to see the speaker in class today because it shows just what some people are doing in our community for drug, particularly meth, prevention and awareness. I enjoyed this speaker because he was very energetic and could really relate to students with what he was talking about. I know that in many high schools, kids are not getting enough drug education, or effective education. I can see how this particular speaker can get student's attention and respect. I think it is important for more people like him to get involved in helping needy children and teens. I am interested in working with situations similar to this for my future career and listening today really got me excited and interested in making a difference.

Speaker

I absolutely loved the speaker we had in class today.  The information he presented was very sad and gross but he made it so interesting with his high energy.  I could not believe some of the stories he told.  The one with the 19 year old with 4 kids really stands out to me and the pictures he showed of the before and after were incredibly eye opening.  His presentation proved that lower income, high risk children really are at a disadvantage and it makes me grateful to have the life that I have

Adoption

So this past week has been very interesting for me. I received a letter from my biological father. I also was shown a letter dated back in 1990, telling my mother that she put me up for adoption.( From my biological father). So I really don't know what to think. I am really happy that my mother didn't and I am very upset at the man in question. He told me in his 4 page letter that he would like to meet me/ but only if I wanted to. And I really don't know how to feel. This is a man who for 18 said or sent nothing to me.

Adoption

It seems that most people who are adopted due tend to want to find out about their birth parents. i had a friend in high school who was the opposite. She didn't want to know because she felt that giving up a child isn't really the best thing. She was happy with the parents she had and felt that was enough. I think personally it was more that she didn't want her adoptive parents to feel hurt over interest in birth parents

Adoption

Yesterday right after class, I went back to my room and watched Smart Guy. The episode was about how one of the characters found out they were adopted and wanted to find his birth mom. It was weird since 30 min earlier we were talking about how kids that are adopted tend to want to find out about their birth parents.

working poor? poor working?

THe whole Working Poor and Poor Working people thing confuses me. What's the difference? Why does it matter that there is a difference? I dunno... I was just confused...

Economy

The main way I've noticed the effect of the economy on my family is probably through my brother. He lived in California and was struggling to get by. What his salary was compared to his cost of living and everything else, he could barely make it. He had to borrow money from me and my parents. My parents were also feeling this burden and told him that he was going to have to start paying his own car insurance and cell phone soon. He began applying to other places and despite the tough job market was able to get a job making double what he does now in Houston. The cost of living is lower and he makes more money. He's doing very well now. However, about a month of working at his new job they began making lay-offs. He hasn't been laid off yet and has had nothing but confidence instilled from his boss but still the threat is there which is tough.

Domestic Violence

Last Thursday we talked about domestic violence. Finding out that men are more frequently abused by women, but women are frequently injured more was a shock. I did not know that men were more frequently abused. It does make you wonder what it is that is happening in these households that constitutes abuse to the men. It just seems weird that it is a more frequent thing to men then women. Another area discussed was the factors affecting the impact: Type, Frequency, Duration, and the relationship of the perpetrator. When you think of duration it shows how long something has been going on, and goes to say how much it impacted the child and if the child will be the same someday. That is the thing that worries me when I hear or know of someone who has been abused. Is that child's life going to be hard and is he/she going to abuse their own children. The type seems to be hard either way. Either verbal or physical. Yes physically it can put you in the hospital and kill you, but verbally it can do the same. It does just as much damage if not more. It can get to the person in so many ways. The relationship is also very difficult, being if you trust them it is much harder to get over it and go on. That would be the one thing that would be hardest for me if it happened to someone I knew. Now frequency is always so hard to see either way with verbal or physical. It is difficult to see what the frequency has done to someone you love. I only hope that if it does happen to someone I know that I have the strength to hold back and not physically harm the person myself. Sexual assult was the other topic that was disscussed. I never knew that the numbers were what they were. It is sad to see that so many rapes go unreported and that all of these high school girls face these issues. It is scary to see what the image and media portray, and if it has to do with why this happens, or what is going on at home as well. What is the most frightening is the large number of rapes and that they are commited by an intimate partner. Now what does that say?

The Economy

Like many others in the class my family has been affected by this falling economy as well. My uncle is a business owner. His business builds automotive body shop machines like tire changers and other things like that. Well this economy is so terrible that they are having problems staying a float. My uncle is actually considering filling for bancruptcy for the company because they just arent making the money to pay the bills. That sucks to know. And since the business isnt doing well my aunt and uncle are doing well either. They are used to living a rather blessed life and now its hard for them to make ends meet and they are living off of credit cards.

Quizzes

I'm actually a little worried about the quizzes. Tests and quizzes make me nervous and for some reason I seem to have a hard time taking them no matter what class I take. I hope they go well!!!

The Economy

Like discussed in class, my family has also been impacted by the downfall of the economy. Although I dont think that my direct family has been impacted I know that my Grandpa has been extremly impacted. He had a ton of money invested in the stock market, and all of it has disappeared into thin air. I think its really hard for him, but he is still living a good life. He goes on vacations every once in a while and even though there is a big loss in the economy he still lives life to the fullest. I think I can really learn from his example and learn to be satisfied in any circumstance that I find myself in, because if the market keeps falling, things will most likely only get worse.

Economy

Like many others in here as well in class my family has been affected by this new down fall of economy that we have today. There is only My mother and I and for the most part I would say we are safe finacally. But because of how the stock market is doing, we lost a lot of money that was put in a E fund from the state. ( Like a normal stock but because if its educational purpose, its tax deductible) So now, because of that I am going to have to take out more loads that I was planning to.

economy

The economy recently affected my family.  My grandparents who live in Colorado and I only see about once a year were planning on staying a my house for a week for Easter.  My uncle who lives with them decided to stay at home because his job has been laying a lot of people off and he did not want to risk taking a few days of and losing his job.  The night before Easter we got a call from my uncle saying he has fallen down the stairs and broken his leg.  My grandparents had to immediately leave, drive back to Colorado because my uncle was having surgery, and missed spending Easter with my family.  Now my uncle is unable to work because he does a lot of lifting at his job and now his job is really at risk.  He also has many heart problems and the added stress of having to think how he is going to get a job with no college education after he is fired has not been good for him.

class today

In class today we talked about the effects of the economy and how people spend or save their money. I am lucky enough to have a family that has not been effect by the economy and I am extremely grateful for that. Next there are 4 meanings of money: status, security, enjoyment, and control. I can see all of those traits in myself, family, and friends. I feel that I hold all 4 characteristics, but it just depends on what is happening in my life and that decides what trait I show. Like after working all summer I feel enjoyment and status because I can now treat myself to something that I want really bad (enjoyment) and I feel really good and happy and in a way powerful (status) because I saved all summer and I have something to show for it. Therefore, I think that it depends on the situation and that is how we decide how we feel about the meaning of money.

Quiz

I just took the two quizzes and I thought they were pretty simple if you read the book and went to class. The grading thing said i got a 10 out of 10 but i'm not sure if that was just like completing it and he is going back to grade it or if it really graded it. I am also excited that the only quiz we will have is another easy 5 point one because i was pretty nervous for the quizzes at the beginning of the semester and I did not do very good on the real in class quiz we did have. I also thought what we talked about today was very interesting, of course this whole semester has been eye openning for me. The thing that i thought used a lot of thinking was "Working Poor" i first didn't understand the difference between them but now that you said what each of them mean it makes a lot of sense. My mom works at a Housing Agency and i worked for her for a while and i said a lot of the the "poor that are working." All of them were suppose to have jobs and a source of income yet not all of them did.

economy

Today many people are affected by the economy. Some families people have lost their jobs or lost some retirement money. It is common for families to go through some struggle because of the economy these days. Recently I have been trying to get a job for summer and I have had no luck. I've applied at eight different places and none of them are hiring.

The Interview

So I don't know if anyone else found asking almost strangers very private questions uncomfortable, but I sure did. I really liked doing it don't get me wrong but some of the question I asked got mixed responses. I really liked this assignment and I really think I got alot out of it. I felt bad though because at the end of the interview the parents were not to pleased with one another.

OMG!

how is it possible to go from getting 65/100 to getting a 100/100?!?!?!?!?! That's what happened with my Sociology test! We had a test yesterday and I just looked to see if the grades were up and sure enough i got a 100!!! I don't know how that's possible. I barely studied. It just seemed to be my lucky day!! :D

dress up

Last week in class we discussed how young children express themselves through dress up and play. I found it entertaining to discuss how even boys dress up as women to play on different roles and be someone else. I remember my older brother and I would dress up in my tutus and dance around when we were very young. It was a fun way for us to bond and become more expressive with one another. We also talked about how dress up and play are forms of communication and that definitely applied to me as a young child. I would always put on makeup and dresses which would "transform" me into a rock star, and I would proceed to sing and dance around my room. I think play helped develop my personality as I explored different ways to look and act. I believe all children should be able to express themselves through dress up and play because it is a great way to have fun and experiment with yourself. I know that once I become a mother, I will have plenty of fun dress up clothes for my kids to enjoy! :)

Parenting Adolescents

In class on Thursday we talked about adolescents and how their behavior is different as they grow up. As an adolescent you are growing up and wanting to experience new things and experiement as well. Some things mentioned were Ego Strength and under that was the loyalty to friends and power or wanting to belong. Those are two major things that you do see a lot of especially now-a-days with kids just wanting their peers to like them or to be popular and some will do whatever it takes in order to be loyal and show their friends just how much they will do for them. It can be very scary raising an adolescent and knowing that that is the case and wondering what they might do just to please their peers or friends. Another was the desire for independence. Now this is a big thing as a teenager, wanting to do things on your own and find out what happens or this and that. I know as a teenager I wanted to independent when I wanted to be and when I was I didn' want my friends let alone my parents or siblings telling me what to do or how to act. That is one key thing when raising teens, you need to let them be independent, explore, make mistakes, live, and have fun. If you don't again it comes around to tuesdays class about how strong is to strong. The last thing we talked about was teen pregnancy. I do believe that teen pregnancy is on the rise and it can be prevented, with parenting, talking to your child, school programs, movies or pamplets on pregnancy to show teens what will happen with your life and how it will change, etc. The media is definetly a strong influence on sexuality. There are kids at the daycare I work at that know words to songs and see things on t.v. that they talk about that they shouldn't even know it or know what that means. I think that if media dosen't start to become more censored, then teens will start having more sex then just within the first year. Media is very appealing to teens, and what they see they think they have to have or do. I think that movies portray only sometimes the good of pregnancy. It seems to be more black, then black and white. I fear that if media and they way parents talk to their children about sex, etc. we will have a big problem in the future.

Family Interview and Pregnancy

That family interview paper was harder than I expected. The length was no problem at all. I am just not sure I wrote about what he wanted to hear. I sort of just flipped the book and wrote about anything that applied to what the family I interviewed had said about the questions asked.
Also, I was a little shocked that teen pregnancy is down considering the fact that MTV and commericals are everywhere supporting sex. Its amazing that the pregnancy rate is down. The promotions, and commericals that sex sells. I was also a little confused as to why the rate only considered teen births and that abortions and miscarriages were put into a different category. If a teen had an abortion why is it not put into the teen PREGNANCY category.

last Thursday

On Thursday we talked about teen pregnancy and I was amazed at how high it was. But yet I was also happy that the percentages of teen pregnancy has gone down. I think that media influences teens' choices. Channels like MTV promote sexual activity and movies like Juno stated that it's okay for a teen to have a baby. In real life it's completely different. In Juno they made raising the baby and finding parents for it even easier. Also her parents understood and stood behind her 100%. In real life the parents don't always support the girl's actions or ideas.

Family Interview Paper

I would also have to say that the paper was difficult to write. It wasn't hard to fill the length requirement, but I am not sure if I wrote about what he was looking for. I found it hard to figure out exactly what he was looking for. I agree that it would have been nice to have an example or at least a bit more direction on the formatting of the paper. I'm very nervous to see what grade I receive.

Family Interview Paper

I had trouble with the family interview paper.  I was not quite sure what he was looking for.  I know he said he did not want to give us examples because then we would copy those, but I think it would have helped a lot.  I just tried to use as many of the terms and topics that we discuss in class as I could.  Hopefully I did well on it.

Family Interview

I also found the family interview paper to be difficult. When looking at the rubric is stated that we needed to barely describe the family structure, but I found it hard to describe the function with barely describing the structure of the family I interviewed. The family that I did interview consisted of a single parent mom and two children, one having Down syndrome. I knew the familiy through my mom, and I have babysat her kids before. There were many things that I found out about the family funtion that I didn't know about them before. Even though the paper was hard to write, and I might not have done it correctly, it was cool to see that no matter who you have in your family, things can always work out if you really want them to.

Family Interview

I found writing the family interview very difficult to do. I wasn't sure of exactly what needed to be in it. I think i did mine pretty wrong but I hope that it was okay. I used a lot of my previous notes that we took in class when we talked about divorce to help me write it. I also used my book but there was not a whole lot in the book that talked about divorce. I talked a lot about the roles thefamily then took on and how it affected the daughter in the long run. After listening to the interview I had, I never realized all of the things that happened with divorce. I have never personally been through it and I hope I never do now that I can see the affects it has on people. I asked all of the questions that he left us on the rubric so i hope i did it right. I really can't afford to get another bad grade. I am a little worred after getting the grade back on the second test. I didn't think i did that bad but I guess I did.

Paper

I hope I did good on the paper we had to hand in today. It was interesting learning about another family and how they interact with each other. During my interview, the couple I was interviewing tied in a lot of the stuff we learned in class with how their family structure is.

Play

I thought last classes lecture was interesting. I enjoyed the idea of play, and what kids dress up in. Im not necessarily sure that what children play to be is an insight into what they want to become as they grow older. I think it might give you an idea as to what there interests may be, but also what they have been exposed to growing up, such as playing that they are a teacher. Overall its just interesting to see what kids come up with!

Death in the Family

A member of my family died this week and I had to make a difficult decision. I really wanted to be with my family in this time of crisis, but I knew I would miss a few of my classes if I went out of town. In the end I decided to go to the funeral and be with my family. Family is the most important thing in this world and missing a few classes is worth being there for my family in this difficult time.

preference vs principle

Last class the Prof was talking about preference vs principle and it really got me thinking. Now, even though I am 18 my mother still tell me what she think I should wear and what to not. I kinda want her to come here and sit in on a class or two. Not to discredit her in any way but some times it seems likes she like to be in control... all the time about everything.

Families with young children

In class on tuesday we talked about how we should encourage children to do their own thing and give them appropriate praise. When giving the child choices and allowing them to do what they want with those choices makes them feel like they are the quote un quote parent like in play. I feel that the more choices that they are given within reason that you set for them, the child will learn to make good choices and want to know what is going on. Another thing mentioned was whether it was a matter of preference or principal. Don't be so rigid and not allowing of their preferences, so don't use principal. If the child doesn't like the ones made that you set aside be willing in some way to negotiate and compromise with the child. Now the other thing that we talked about was giving praise to the child where needed. I work at a daycare and day after day I give praise to those children when they have done something. If a child comes up to me and says "hey I just drew a picture of a dinosaur" I will say nice job it is so good. Or if the children just start picking up the toys and balls in the gym without being asked I will do the same. If when I babysit the children help me clean up after supper I too give them praise for helping. You can tell that the child appreciates being appreciated and loves the praise. I also agree that children need love and affection. If the child has none then what does the child have but negative around them. I hope to also use the five steps to guide behavior also with my family and see if I could try it with the kids at daycare also, to see if it will help with some of the behaviors. I hope to be the authoritative parent and give praise and affection day after day to my child. I feel that if I do give praise and affection and love and all that goes with this type of parenting I will have a very happy life and family.

Parenting

When we were discussing parenting in class and he was talking about preference vs principle it made me think of my parent's and the way they parented my brothers and I. My mom has has to tell my younger brother's teachers over and over to "pick their battles" with him, which I associated with what we talked about in class. She realizes that there are things that just don't matter and when approached end up causing more of an issue than what was originally going on.

Families with Young Children

In class on tuesday when we were talking about play, I found it very interesting. Many people watch children play and try to figure out what role they may grow up to be like. In the summer I babysat two girls at the ages of five and eight. When we would play "house" or something like that I found it interesting that the story always went the way the older girl wanted it to go. The younger one never had a say in whether or not she wanted the story line to go a different way. I think learning about the different parenting styles and learning about families with young children will be really interesting.

Parenting

First of all, I have been checking for my grade on the last test and its not up and and i'm getting very nervous waiting to see what I got. Now for my blog and I am going to talk about parenting that we talked about tuesday in class. I thought i was interesting to learn about how you should teach children. I thought i remembered my parents just telling me what not to do or how to do it but now that i think about it i think they did actually "show" me what i should do. I do know that if i did something bad I did get lectured which you said in class isn't something that will helpo children learn but i think in my case it did help me because i didn't want to get 'lectured' again so i didn't do it again. I always thought it was scary to be lectured so i think that that worked for but if i was a parent i dont' think i would use that just because i don't want to scare my kids out of doing something i would rather teach them.

authoritative

In Tuesday we talked about how kids respond better to praise versus negative responses. I agree with this since I have seen it better hand. I have noticed with both kids that I baby sit and my younger siblings that it is easier to get them to do something when I either ask nicely or praise them about something that they just did. For example it is easier to keep the kids from fighting if I compliment them about something. Like telling them thanks for helping me put away supper or thanks for helping me pick up the living room. I plan on using this technique with my kids...it seems life would be easier that way.

Families with young children

I loved our topic for class today.  It was funny to hear some of the different things people did when they were little and it took me back down memory lane.  I never really thought about how you dress up or what you play with when you are little can kind of define who you will be when you are older, but it is so true.  I ALWAYS played teacher or played something where I was in charge and now here I am in college majoring in Early Childhood Education.  After today's class I will definitely take more interest and watch how kids play or what they play with to learn more about them.

Childhood

It was nice today to talk about the old days of our childhood and think about how we would play with other kids. Its good to think about what games we would play or how we would role play with others. When I was younger I would always play with Barbies and try to act like I was an adult. Those were the good old days of when none of us had the stresses of homework and tests.

Unplanned Pregnancy = Bad Marriage

In one of our classes Mr. Hollist was listing off bad reasons to get married and listed an unplanned pregnancy as one of them. While I agree that sometimes this might be a bad idea I don't think it is in all situations. Maybe the marriage was all ready inevitable but the baby just brought it up earlier. I think there are some people out there that if they are committed enough to a relationship to have sex with their partner in the first place they were probably planning on marrying their partner anyway. if you are just having casual sex or are having sex to early in the relationship getting married as a result of the baby might be a bad idea but therre are many instances when I think that a baby can lead to a happy marriage, despite the popular view.

Test 2 conti.

Ok. So Last week I wrote about the test and me being stressed about it.. I think I it might have been justified. Me and a couple of my friends study for this test for about 2 hours, and I still have questions. My Problems lie with the specifies about Married and inter relationship problems. I got that there is 6 steps for problem but the 4 and 6 step.... is the same. So because of that.. I think I did really bad on the essay.

Test on Tuesday

The test on Tuesday was a little more difficult then I had thought it would be. I have yet to miss a class and i figured by going to class and reading the assignments i wouldbe okay. Apparently i was a little wrong. I studied for the test yet when I was reading over my notes it all sounded very familiar like I knew it all. I was please with the essay question we received though. I thought talking about the most important part of conflict was rather simple. I thought the most important part was resolving it because that is what Dr. Hollist say and in class when we did the chart the happiest couple was the one who resolved everything. Overall i think the test was okay but there were a couple questions that i thought were difficult.

last class

On Tuesday we talked about how in the couple the one with the "I don't care attitude" usually gets their way. That is because the one who doesn't mind what they are doing usually has less intrest in the couple's status. Therefore the one who cares more will do anything and everything to keep their spouce happy. Although I think that is unfair, I do think that it is true.

test

so the test on tuesday..... I didn't find it too difficult. Anyone else? I hope the grades get posted soon. There were a few questions that confused me but other than those few I found the test to be very straightforward. What did everyone else think?

Family Planning and Parenthood

The next class session on family planning and parenthood should be a good lesson for those of us who are wanting to start a family someday. It talked about the importance of family planning and what factors you need to take in when planning it. It talked about timing being important and the effect on a family. For instance when teenage girls or girls who are older are sexually active but they do not want a child, they will be careful in the choices and ways to prevent that from happening. It also stated that people often want to finish their education or get settled in their careers before they decide to start planning and having a family. Now for me that will be what my planning for a family will be centered around for the most part. I want to finish my schooling and then get settled in my career and get off to a good start and then have a steady relationship, get married and all that and then start planning for a family. It also talked about oral contraceptives and how many women take it to avoid pregnancy when they are not quite ready to start a family. There are so many different choices for women these days for contraceptives to take and it is amazing that sometimes they can fail and you can still end up pregnant. It seems to be a win/lose situation now a days with everything. When I finally decide to start having a family I only hope that me and my future spouse are prepared and in a situation that we are ready in all areas needed for the well being of the child.

Family Planning and Parenthood

I think that the next section parents and children will be very interesting. I did like learning about the concepts of being single and dating, but I feel like this will also be helpful to learn. Someday I would like to start a family of my own and I feel like this section will give me a heads up as to what I will be getting into. When reading for class today I thought that the different reason people have children is really neat. Some like to make life more complete, to avoid boredom, or simply to start a family. For me I know that nearly all the members in my family had children to start a family. I feel like this section will be beneficial and entertaining.

Test

I thought the test was kind of hard. I definitely wasn't as prepared for this test as I was for the last test. I hope I did okay on it. I was very happy that we got the 4th essay question. I thought this wasn't as tricky as the rest of the essay questions. I hope the final isn't to bad, I am sure it is going to be here sooner than we all think!!

Test

The test was not as bad as I thought it was going to be.  I was very happy that we got essay question #4.  After looking at the syllabus, it looks like we are going to begin talking about having children and families with children.  I think this will be a very interesting topic.