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Family Values
No matter what stage of life you find yourself in, whether you are just starting out or with teens or grown kids raising your grands, it is important to keep the focus on family values. These days, we are given lots of different examples of what that means and it can be confusing to know what is right with all of the conflicting information.
By Nathan J Bonassin3 years ago in Families
Meet Your New Stepfather
The grown woman stood in the hallway of the hospital. She had just called her boss and said she would not be back today, and she had called her husband to tell him what was going on, he was leaving work and coming straight to the hospital. She had called her kids to let the two oldest ones that were doing high school classes online know her and their daddy would be late so they would have to look after their younger brothers when they got off the school bus. Last she had called her little brother and told him to come as soon as he could. He was on his way with his girlfriend, with traffic this time of day no one would be here for hours. After all that she just needed to take a breath before she went back in the room, it was going to be a really long day.
By Heather Lunsford3 years ago in Families
I Finally Understand Why Other People Were Staring
When my kids were little, I proudly paraded them through Target, the grocery store, and the mall, always conscious of how some people would stare at us. I remember strangers leaning over to get a closer look at one of my adorable offspring, expressing their delight over how cute they were.
By Susan Poole3 years ago in Families
Me and my son
Morning days when they seem less heavy and burdened. A freedom overwhelms you . Slowly cascading coffee in hand to a equilibrium of health and happiness. A moment you’ve eagerly waited for . To feel like you believe in yourself . To have a moment of peace irrespective of current means . Irrespective of the slow moving pace at which life is taking . A warm light is hitting your forehead . And all things of the past are gone .
By April Liao 3 years ago in Families
Father Value
Family structures can be connected to the idea of a family tree. The structure is based upon who had breed together to create the family that exists as a whole and tends to continue to grow. Family structures can also be defined by the roles or power each individual has in the lineage. Normally the Grandmother and her husband hold the highest power that gets passed down to their children, eldest to youngest, and they pass it down to their children. I’ve learned hierarchy proves nothing other than age being increased, in my opinion of the black families. Much like other populations, we tend to suffer from single-parent households and poverty. I plan to discuss the findings of Patricia Thomas of Duke University on the effects of father presence in black homes.
By Drako the Righter3 years ago in Families
A letter to my father
Hey father, I know we haven't talked for 2 years now, but there's an entire bag of reasons why. Reasons both of us are too egoistic to talk about and confront. You've led me in my life in many ways as a father should but also treated me in countless ways like no one should have. You preferred we called you God and you loved to command us as your peasants. You thought money can buy everything, that money is what gives you the power to subordinate family members, that money gives you a right to silence other's people opinions, that money is everything life is about. From a young age, I and my sister lived in this giant mansion, whose 3/4 of it was never used but that was not the problem. The problem was that you were never there, you always left early in the morning and came back late in the night, day in and day out for 20 years straight. But we got used to that, daddy has to work. But the saddest part is when you had the time for us you were always too tired of work and ill-tempered to show us any love. You thought bringing the food to the table was your duty, while you never brought food to our hearts. I'm pouring myself out here, but it would be interesting to be in this position if I had no father, because I don't think it would make any difference. Because to me, it's questionable: whether it's better to have a father that abuses you or none at all. It's sad that only the people around you saw how money corrupted you, but never yourself. You saw greatness in that... we kids weren't even in your field of view. Some say money brings you happiness, but everything I prayed for as a kid was a little smile from you. There were some neutral times when life just went on, but there were also times when you repurposed our family into a company and threatened to fire us. I never understood why my older brothers left the house so early and never came back. I think I do now and I've left three sisters behind me. I guess that makes me a coward, but I rather live in the shadows than under a feeling that I only exist in this world because of you. You had various techniques to bring me down, from knocking on my head when I tried to focus, to making me polish a complete mansion that you intentionally messed up just for me, to waking up to insulting notes each morning, ignoring the things I performed well in. I still keep the notes, to remember from time to time why I'm here, why the family is broken and that there's no way back. These things hurt, and they still do today but I got on with it, but will my kids too? How am I supposed to explain to them who is their grandpa? Should I lie? should I tell them the truth?
By Impassioned diary3 years ago in Families
Mother, you make me grow up
When I was young, I often complained that you control too much, home late from school to control, Sunday to the creek to catch fish to control, and play with small partners to control, watched TV close to control, and wrote homework on the table to control, as if all this is in the jurisdiction of the mother, looking at the brother went out to play alone, they feel that it is not biological to do so, so they look forward to growing up quickly, to get out of the constraints of the mother sooner. The first thing you need to do is to get out of your mother's way and start living your own life sooner.
By Amparo Hassan3 years ago in Families
Let mom live a good life forever
Mom, you are there ...... why you quietly left me ah! Mom, do you know how much I miss you ...... Whenever it's late at night, I weep. I know how deeply my mother loved us, she was reluctant to leave us! Although she is speechless, her eyes full of tears, tell me how much she is clinging to us ah ......
By Denise W Pierce3 years ago in Families
