Last Two Weeks

This past week:

  

            In class we have been learning a lot about he reason that some parents do or do not want a lot of children. Research has shown that upon making that kind of family decision, parents usually go back to their own home circumstances. They look at how many siblings they have and analyze whether or not that was a good number for the family. If so they are usually inclined to have that many children (give or take one or two). If it wasn't a productive number for a healthy family parental units are generally more obligated to do something completely different. Before this research was made known to me, brother Williams asked us to talk to our neighbor and let them know how many kids we wanted in the future. Mine and my partner's responses corresponded with the research given: I wanted 3 kids (because that's what I grew up with), and she wanted 5 because of what she was raised with. It was really interesting to see the same results in the rest of my classmates as well.

One Week Ago:

We discussed a lot about the individual roles of a mother and father. In doing this we read the article "Trading Your Mind For a Mop," in this we were able to recognize as a class that when you become a mother, it's not just cooking and cleaning that you do, but things more important than that. As mothers we rear children in the right direction and prepare a better generation. The role of a mother is important.

Family Under Stress

   I gained a new perspective this week. Through looking at my family and comparing it to others that are in my home ward, or even just different families that live in my neighborhood back home--I realize how easy we have it. I have often taken that for granted and I think that it is important that I am trying to help not only the people in my family, but the families around me. We learned this week how even if one individual in the family system is having a hard time with something, that it affects the whole family. A father who has just lost his job for example. Or maybe a daughter who is struggling to find herself. It really does not matter what the problem is. We just know that the entire family is affected, and that it why we really have to work on being close to one another. It's easier to get over a crisis when the family is knit closely together.

Intimacy

     This past week we have been learning a lot about physical intimacy. It was kind of weird for me at first because that specific part of physicality I usually don't discuss with an entire classroom. But as we went on through this past week with all of our with the discussions, I realized how intercourse between a husband and wife is not only a physical thing--but a mental and even spiritual. So it has been really interesting to hear all the stand-point and views of all the married couples in Family Sciences. They have helped me to realize how sex truly isn't a bad thing; not even close. Physical intimacy kept within the law of God is positively beautiful, and we need to respect it.