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Week Eleven: Parenting This week we met as a class online for our lessons and discussions, it was different, but I still felt engaged and got so much out of it! I really liked the topics we discussed too even though I have never parented someone before I felt like there was some useful substance that I can pull from so one day when I am a father, I can do a good job raising them. I even learned a little more about myself and my own upbringing. I think the lessons shed some light on the way I am the way I am, and why my parents did what they did. I think I found some good examples in their parenting, and I also found some poor spots that may have caused harm. But that’s the great part about learning from other people’s efforts! You can take the best that they had and add upon it to make your own amazing way of going about life.  To kick this blog off I want talk about an amazing finding that was introduced to me. A man named Michael Popkin came up with his own definition of w

Week Ten: Fathers and Finance       You know, it’s an interesting experience when you go through situations and learn of their importance many years down the road. I learned things this week that really did surprise me and consider how I came out to be the adult that I am today. The principles that I learned are simple and vital to the health of families, but I feel like they are often the most ignored and disregarded family principles to date. Almost all forms of modern society really do trash on the traditional family structure and its roles, it’s almost impossible to argue otherwise, but sometimes those simple traditional ways are the best. This week I learned a lot about the role of the father in the home and his role to his wife and children. I learned a lot about some statistics surrounding the father and his position in today’s world. In a lot of ways, it is dismal, and people really don’t appreciate or understand the father role, but that is a sound reason for you and me t

Week Nine: Communication tools are the best!      Communication: the key to success. T hat is success in relationships, which is overall the most valuable area to be successful in.      At the heart of every message conveyed, every close relationship, and every desire to communicate lies an unseen normalcy of communication that is as complex as it is beautiful. When everyone communicates, they use intricate ways of forming a message and use a tool or plethora of tools to convey their message over to a receiving party. These are considered different communication media. These could be texting, body language, talking, etc. After someone formulates the message that they desire to convey, they send it in the best way they can, and then it’s up to the receiving party to actually decode this message and respond in their own way. This is actually how all communication happens in all forms.      As this came to my mind, I’ve thought that it seems so inefficient and odd. Why were w

Week Eight: Family Under Stress, Crisis   This week I plan on writing this blog a little differently than I normally do. Instead of writing about what I learned and the concepts that were presented to me in class, I want to share some personal experiences that were in line with the things that we learned. This week we talked about stuff that was close to my heart and life, probably because unlike being married and dating regularly I’m used to dealing with family issues and crises and have learned to navigate them, with more finesse and strength than I used to.       I want to first point out that stress and some issues that arise in the family are usually a good thing and invite families to stretch and grow beyond their current circumstances. Without hard times families would never grow closer and overcome obstacles. But sometimes stressors can be so great that families can often strain and break under the pressure. These are events like death, divorce, unemployment.