Family Crustaceans

          What is the purpose of parenting? To some, this might be a dumb question. However, it is important to ask yourself if you have or want children of your own in the future. When I first heard this question, I also thought it was kind of weird. I was thinking how could someone not know the answer? I then started to actually think about it and I found myself wondering. There could be so many different possible answers. As for the answer, I wrote the purposes of parenting are to raise children to be good, kind, generous people. Teach young children the right concepts and behaviors. It is also important to show children love so they know what it feels like to feel whole. While I was writing this blog post I decided to look up the internet’s answer to what the purpose of parenting is. APA.org says that the purpose of parenting is ensuring children's health and safety, preparing children for life as productive adults, and transmitting cultural values. This answer is very similar

       For this week's blog post, I have decided to focus on the article “The Importance of a Father in a Child’s Life.” This article was written by the Pediatrics Associates of Franklin. This article starts off with the sentence, “anyone can father a child, but being a dad takes a lifetime.” I really like this sentence because, in my opinion, it takes a really special man to be a good father. There are so many men out there that don’t deserve to be a father and their children, likewise, deserve to have a good father in their lives. Whether we notice it or not, fathers have a great impact on a child’s life that can shape how we become.      Father’s and emotional development. Just like how as children, we turn to our mothers for nurturing and care, children look to their fathers to lay down the rules and to enforce them. Children also tend to look to their fathers for a feeling of security, both physically and emotionally. Usually, when little kids are scared from a nightmare or

     Without communication, we as humans would not be able to function with other people at all. When I think of communication the first thing that comes to mind, and probably your mind too, is communicating through words. What I think is really cool, and people tend to often forget about, is there are so many different ways to communicate. Subconsciously when we are around people, our brain is basically taking mental notes about how the people around us are acting. We can automatically tell if someone is uncomfortable just by the way they are sitting. We can also tell when someone is upset or angry by their body language. Another example of communication is through sign language. It is really interesting to me how people who can not hear have a really cool way of still communicating.       When we think about communication in a relationship, that is where it can become a little bit tricky for some people. When I looked up the top reasons why couples break up, it is more than likely be

     Stress is a big part of all of our lives. In fact, stress is a good thing. The reason why most of us think stress is a bad thing is that we don’t react to it in a way that we should. When someone says that they are stressed, they are actually using the wrong word. This is something that I didn’t know before this week. Stress is the event that can result in distress. Distress is the reaction we have to it and can become severe if we don’t treat it well.       When we think biologically about stress, it is almost like an inherited response to danger. However, some people don’t have this. For example, if you were out hiking in the woods and you see a bear, your heart would start pounding, you wouldn’t move very fast, and you would be getting really nervous. As you may know, we call this the fight or flight response. We wouldn’t go up to the bear and start petting it because it’s cute. However, I think we all know at least one person that would try.      The example I just shared does

Boundaries are important in absolutely every aspect of a marriage/relationship. There are also different types of boundaries for different circumstances in those relationships. When most people think about what boundaries are, a lot of people will say that boundaries refer to personal space. While there are those kinds of boundaries as well, there are a lot more aspects to it than you may realize. When you think about your family and different families you know, there might be different boundaries that your family has set in comparison to what other families have set. For instance, in my family, I told my parents everything in high school. On the opposite side of that, I knew a lot of kids that told their parents absolutely nothing. There could be boundaries of what your family talks about openly or different boundaries for privacy. It just depends on how you were raised. Now if you exclude kids from the situation and just think about your relationship or even your parent's relatio

          How do I know if I am dating the right person? How do I know if I should marry this person? Am I doing the right thing? These could all potentially be questions we all have or will ask ourselves eventually.      Dating and marriage nowadays are really complicated and hard. For some people, it is really easy but for most, it isn’t the most fun thing to do. There are so many circumstances that go into dating that people don’t realize have to happen. There is a phrase called “DTR.” I didn’t know what this meant until I moved up to Rexburg for my first semester of college. Once I found out that it meant “define the relationship,” it made a lot more sense. Defining the relationship is a big step in a relationship because it gives you the chance to know if you and your partner are on the same page as far as knowing what the other person thinks about it or what they want out of the relationship. This can even go into the engagement phase which was kind of hard for me to believe. The