Work in the Family

This week we have talked about work and it's impact on families. Working together brings a family closer together. We talked about how work has changed over the centuries. I plan to be a stay-at-home mother and cannot wait to have exciting and meaningful experiences with my children. I have made two goals regarding work in my future family. The first goal is that I will send the message to my children from a young age that it is a privilege to be able to work with mom or dad. I will make sure that there are plenty of opportunities for my children to work one-on-one with either my husband or myself. My second goal is that I will strive to never speak negatively about work. I will speak positively about it to my children so that they will think of it as a positive rather than a negative. Work is something that every person has to participate in. I think that if it is made to be enjoyable rather then a drudgery, then children will learn to love and enjoy it.

Communication: One of the keys to a successful family

 This week in class we have been discussing communication and how important it is to communicate with each other in the family. It's so important to have good communication in the family. Everyone wants to be heard. Sometimes a person just needs to talk and have someone listen to them. We ALL need that. I feel that when someone has proper communication, they are being selfless. They are thinking of the other person and what they are saying and how they are feeling. In my future family, I plan to communicate effectively with my husband and children. Although good communication isn't the only key to a successful marriage, I feel that it is a big part of it.

For today's assignment, we were to write down 10 different times we can remember our family being under stress. It didn't take too long for me to come up with 10. I would like to take time to ponder and explore each on a little more. All families go through stress. It's something that simply cannot be avoided. But it can certainly be dealt with in an appropriate manner. I know that I will go through stress when I have a family of my own someday. I will seek help from the Lord during those times. I know that he will make the stresses that come into our family easier to bear.

Affairs

In class today, we talked about affairs. It was interesting to me because you can have an "affair" with a family member or even a friend that is the same gender. If one of  the people are talking on the phone to their mother for many hours each day, that could be considered an affair. Or if the wife is confiding personal matters to her girlfriend and not her husband. Marriages binds two people together and they literally become one. They are to let nothing get between that sacred bond.