Emily McCaleb Family Relations

  Hey everybody! This will be my final blog post! I would like to say thank you to my amazing teacher Michael Williams for the wonderful insights he has provided this semester! I highly recommend taking this class to anyone who is thinking about it. I would like to end this blog with my major takeaways from this class.  The family is the most basic unit and yet the most important unit within the plan that our heavenly father has for us. It influences who you are and what you are becoming. Whether it has a negative or positive impact, you will always be affected by your family. The family is a complex system that affects every aspect of your life. Think of it as a baby mobile. If one part moves, the entire mobile moves. The same goes for the family. Everything each member of the family does somehow affects the others in the family. There are rules and roles within each family system that determine how the family functions. These roles and rules will vary depending on each famil...

            Hey everybody! This week I will be talking about parenting! Good parenting is becoming less and less common while its demand in society is going up. It is so essential to our society. If children can be raised right in a good home then they will have a greater chance of continuing that cycle. Mother Teresa said that if we want to change the world, we have to start with the home. If we can improve the home life and parenting styles then we truly can change the world. Nobody will be perfect at it, but we can do everything we can to do our best.  A common misconception of good parenting is that you are doing it right when your child obeys you. However, this is not the case. In order to find what good parenting entails, we have to first look at what the purpose of parenting is. My personal definition of the purpose of parenting is to love and support a child and give them an example to follow in the real world. One definition that I found ...