Lesson 12

    This week in marriage and family we talked about divorce, blended families and remarriage in families.

    We talked about how for remarried families it takes usually around two years for normalcy for the children to get use to the new step parent and it is the birth parents duty to do the discipling, and the step parent is to become like a fantastic uncle or aunt. I found it really interesting and kind of a scary thought to think about what could happen (hopefully not, pray not) but you never know. 

Lesson 11

    This week in class we read, watched and talked about parenting. It was really interesting to watch videos from Popkin. We also took a parenting style assessment, and I got authoritative (active) parent, which is the middle ground of too strict parents (authoritarian) and too relaxed and walked over like a doormat parent (permissive). It was a good refresher, and good to know that one day when I am a parent I will hopefully be a great parent!

Lesson 10

    So we only had class this week on Monday because of Thanksgiving, but from the readings we read about fathers and finances.
    One of the articles I found interesting was by Dennis Prager called Does a Full-Time Homemaker Swap Her Mind For A Mop?, this was interesting to me because he explained from his point of view how it is still possible for stay at home moms to still get intellectual development. They don’t have to be going to school or having a career to further her knowledge, because it is possible for her to do it at home. I agreed with this article because I know tons of stay at home moms that are very smart and creative. I myself want to be a stay at home mom when I have kids, so I will be able to watch them grow and teach them things. What do y’all think?

Lesson 09

    This past week in family relations was interesting. We learned about communication and mutual problem solving within the family.
    For me personally, communication is a very important thing to have in any relationship. There are different kinds of communication: there are words, tone, non-verbal, and body language.
    When there is conflict in a marriage/relationship, as said by President Gordon B. Hinckley, “We need to care about what our partner thinks and feels as we do our own.” I liked this quote a lot because it shows the importance of how important the views and opinions of our spouse really is. I would even go as far as to say, our spouses opinions, wants, dreams, and needs are more important than our own.

Lesson 08

    This past week in my family relations class was pretty interesting. We talked about family crises and stressors that families encounter. We talked about the ABC-X model, which stands for A- actual event, B- responses and resources, C- cognitive, and X- total experience. We applied it to stress events that we have had happened in our own families. It was interesting.

Lesson 07

    Well this past week we only had one class and did the rest of it on our own but I still learned and read some interesting things. We read about some reasons why affairs are started and why, teenage pregnancy, and a midterm on same sex attraction.
    I found all of the information really interesting and for sure will apply it to my future marriage. Im so grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ and to be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I know that everyone has their own trials in their lives and God won’t give us anything that we cant handle, but we have those trials to make us stronger and a better person if we can overcome them.

Lesson 06

    So this past week in my family relations class was again also interesting. Our discussions circled around getting married and the adjustments of being a newlywed and the baby blues. Our discussion today (Friday) was the most interesting to me because we learned that after the first baby is born most couples marital satisfaction decreases and does so with each child. I found that interesting. But things we can do to change that is simple it’s to INVOLVE HUSBAND!! 

    When babies are born into a family the mom and child usually go off and have their own bonding experiences and the husband feels kinda left out and forgotten about, so it is good for the couple to still go on dates together (don't always have to spend money!) and talk and have the dad be involved in the infants life then and now. It’s even a great idea to involve the husband during the pregnancy like going to check ups together and when the baby kicks, show him and explain to him how it feels so that he can feel involved and your marital satisfaction won’t decrease but be stable through out all of these experiences and increase. 

Lesson 05

    This past week in family relations: we talked a lot about courtship (dating) and selecting a spouse. I really found it all interesting and fun to read about.
    We also talked a lot bout cohabitation and all the effects it has a relationship and marriage. Some of the things I found interesting in the book were, “Married couples have a better-quality relationship than do cohabiting couples” (Lauer, 2012), and “Rates of violence are higher among cohabiting couples; a woman is nine times more likely to be killed by a partner in a cohabiting than in a married relationship” (Lauer, 2012). These were just a few of the many things that I found interesting about the negatives to cohabiting vs. marriage and all of the affects it has on a marriage.

Lesson 04

   Well this past week in my Family Relations class was really interesting. We talked about gender roles, and same sex attraction.
   Gender roles, I think that it is good for women to further their education, but not as long as it takes the importance over family. If the women doesn’t have a family to care for yet then i say go for it and get all the education you can. I think that men should definitely further their education so that they may be able to provide for their family.
   Same sex attraction, is something that is talked about very often. In class we talked how some people say “I was born this way”. I disagree that people can be born gay. As we talked about in class, kids (boys, for example) are teased about having feminine qualities like playing with girls, and kindness and loving and they get teased and made fun of for this, but who else are loving caring men? Our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Along with this in my opinion, I know that God has a plan for us, The Plan of Salvation, and He wouldn’t make someone “born like this” it’s just not in His plan.

Lesson 03

This past week in my family relations class we talked about the social class in America and we watched some videos of lower, middle and upper class people and just saw some of the differences that vary from each one. Some of the videos showed how these certain people lived and how they viewed themselves and how they interacted and felt about their family. I think that even if you are not the wealthiest person alive, family is still number one and should come before worldly things. By putting our family before ourselves we are following the Lords commandments and what He has taught us.

Lesson 02

This past week in my family relations class we learned about Family system theories. We also talked about unspoken family rules that we have in our families. This was hard for me to think of some but one that I did think of was like for example if I am talking on the phone with a family member, when we are saying bye we always tell each other I love you. When we are walking out the door we kiss the other persons cheek and tell one another I love you. This is something that we have never talked about but have always done and this is something I want to do with my family.

Lesson 01

This past week in Family Relations was pretty interesting. We talked about the family and 9 things that are affecting marriages and families. 1.- people are waiting longer to marry, 2.- Cohabitation is increasing, 3.- there are fewer children; birth rates are decreasing (about 1/2), 4.- non-marital births are increasing, 5.- Employed mothers, 6.- household size is decreasing, 7.- divorce rates increasing, 8.- living alone increasing, 9.- sex is increasing. I found this all really interesting.

Week 1

Well I just finished my first week in my Family Relations class. And I am actually really excited to start to learning about families and how it will help me with my life now and my future family. Here’s to a BOMB semester!!