Family Relation Thoughts

  Today in class we talked about what typically causes divorce and how it affects the children and people involved. We started by talking about what are common causes of divorce, we were able to discuss quite a few. One of the first things that were brought up was “falling out of love” which I thought was the most common, two people that loved each other before but over time they have lost those feelings that they felt before. We also mentioned “lack of communication”, one of the people would start getting mad or frustrated at the other and bottle it up inside, not expressing how they feel, which prevented them from growing as a couple. We talked about a few other reasons such as cheating, pornography, and money problems but one thing that we talked about surprised me a little or I guess I've never thought about it, Substance abuse. I know that drinking could lead to events that could cause divorce, but we talked about weed and what it does to the person and their brain. According ...

  Today in class we were able to talk about parenting. Our goals as parents should be not to only have our kids survive but to want them to thrive. Of course, in class we talked about a few things I did not think about. We talked about how it affects the child when someone else watches them more than you. When you have a Nany or someone watching your kids, they tend to get more attached to the Nany, that’s who they spend all their time with and that’s who they trust. We are encouraged as parents to spend as much time with our children as we can, they look up to us for the first few years of their lives, we are technically their world. When they are first born their brains are so mold able , what we do and don’t do can affect how they live and grow up. We also talked a lot about children that tend to be more attention seekers due to the lack of affection in their home. My teacher was able to share a story about this kid in his church back home. There was this kid that would alw...