Let's Talk Family

Week Twelve: Divorce, Split-families, and Remarriage      This week was all on divorce, remarriage, and blending families. I was glad to look into the text on what is recommended for making the best out of a divorce or a split family situation, but instead I found a lot of evidence that reconfirms just how hard it can be. Of course, people are making it in families where there are some un-traditional family structures, I mean look at how many children are born into a family without a father, but that’s not ideal.      I’m speaking from experience here when I say there are other ways to get around a potential divorce or split. My parents divorced when I was only two and I was toted around as a little kid on dates as my father and mother began searching for a spouse. As an adult I’ve asked my parents and their spouses how dating went between them and they almost always bring up the fact that I was around as a little kid made the new marriage decis...

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 ...