The Family Real Talk

I really enjoyed what we talked about in class this week because I am a freshman in college and all of the things we talked about apply to me right now. Sometimes in class we talk about things that don’t exactly apply to me right now so I don’t have a chance to put it into practice or really try it out. I loved everything we talked about this week and I hope you will too!  This week we talked about preparing for marriage or in other words dating. Now dating at BYU- Idaho is huge as a lot of people who know LDS culture would know. You see a lot of quick young marriages and lots of dating. Which in my opinion is great! I love getting to know new people and making new friends! What was interesting was my professor started out class and said that in his professional experience 90% of the time he can identify couples marital issues by the way they dated. I found this super interesting! If you can already tell the way someone is going to have issues later on than that means we can ch...

On Tuesday in class this week we talked about something that is a very sensitive subject for a lot of different people. We began by talking about the different gender roles that we have in society. Women tend to have more characteristics of nurturing, cooperative, relational, and better communication skills. Men tend to be more competitive, aggressive, action oriented, and more body strength. We naturally have these different gender roles from birth. These male roles force men to feel like they have to provide, preside, and protect. Naturally as children we tend to be more drawn to the toy of our gender. Boys like trucks and swords. Girls like dolls and flowers. We naturally do this as kids without our parents doing or saying anything. Every now and then we have boys who will want to play with dolls and girls who will want to play with trucks. This is totally normal. Let your children try and experience different things without making assumptions about them and without forcing them to...

What I want to talk about today is the different family structures we have here in America. Our family structure has so much to do with our culture and the traditions of our family. We decided that for our class, culture is defined as a shared attitude with common values, goals, and practices. In each of our families we have a culture that is accepted among us. Sometimes we have things that disrupt that culture like when a sibling gets married and they try to bring in this outsider that has their own culture. Within our families we have these cultures that could also be known as traditions. When I hear the words traditions I immediately think of good and happy traditions in my family but what we brought up in class is that sometimes those traditions aren’t always good and happy and sometimes those things can actually be really negative cultural things we are doing that we don’t quite know how to break the chain. This was super interesting to me. Like maybe in your culture it is a nor...

This week in class we talked a lot about the family and the different roles that families should have. My teacher talked a lot about how a husband and wife should be able to be one with each other. The wife or the husband shouldn’t be going and talking to their friends or family about issues that are happening in there home. I found this really interesting because my roommate has been in this situation within her own family. Her mom is constantly calling her complaining about her own Dad and the things he is doing. This puts her in a really awkward situation because she wants to help her mom and be there for her but at the same time she is talking about her Dad who she loves and respects. Eventually my roommate had to say “Hey Mom I love you and I want to be here for you but I don’t think you realize they way you are talking about Dad hurts me. It hurts me because I love him just as much as I love you but I can’t fix your problems and I don’t think you should expect me to” This coincid...

This week in class we talked a lot about social trends and the family. The first day of class was super interesting because we all came to class having read the article "Same-sex parenting and children’s outcomes: A closer examination of the American psychological association’s brief on lesbian and gay parenting" this was so cool because all of this research was used in the Supreme court case that basically made gay and lesbian marriage legal. What was so interesting about this article was the fact that a lot of the studies that were used were completely misrepresented. Let me backup and explain for a second. The reason this case made it to the supreme court was because 2 men wanted their marriage that was legal in a different state to be recognized by the state of California. The supreme court knew that if they made it so that the state of California made to recognize their marriage this would have a nationwide ripple effect for so many different things. One of those things...

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