Family Food for Thought - this week in PSY-101...
Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown
Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. ~Evan Esar
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~Ogden Nash
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. ~Dodie Smith
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. ~Fred Allen
and...
Friends are God's apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill
Re-read the aforementioned quotes on family - identify the one or more that describe your family...be ready to share as we delve further into families on Friday.
Post if you would like to...If you do not want to post a response, please be ready to share in class.
Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. ~Evan Esar
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~Ogden Nash
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. ~Margaret Mead
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. ~Dodie Smith
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. ~Fred Allen
and...
Friends are God's apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill
Re-read the aforementioned quotes on family - identify the one or more that describe your family...be ready to share as we delve further into families on Friday.
Post if you would like to...If you do not want to post a response, please be ready to share in class.
5 Comments:
"Families are like fudge- mostly sweet with a few nuts." I would have to agree. Most families anymore in the world today are not perfect. A lot of them half their ups and downs and the occasional few that are either dis-owned or are the "crazy" ones. Although this is normally seen as a bad thing, i believe that those people are who make the relationships within the family better.
"A family is a unit composed nont only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." This is true as well. Family is everything you hold close and are willing to take and recieve from one another. It doesn't have to be a direct family as long as it is someone or something that you can rely on and completely trust.
Please forgive my typo's oops :-D
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. ~Nancy Mitford
I completely agree. My brother and I had it so easy until our foster kids moved in. Now things are tough at times and I am always telling myself having a large family is unfair and that I will only have one or two kids. I know this is just me being selfish right now and its harder in our case because they arent really our family. But I still think that by having a large family you may take away time with your children individually. And Kids/teens really do need quality time with their parents.
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt
I feel this is saying that, people or expiriences will change us but at the end of the day we are who are family is. When times get tough or you have a bad day, in most cases when you go home you can turn to your family. And family doesnt mean just your parents. Our family is anyone we want it to be. So even a close friend we can lean on. There is always someone there thats our family and who will be there for us when things change or times get tough.
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. ~Fred Allen
I think this one makes sense for Fred Allen considering he was a comedian. It got a smirk out of me as that's how I've felt many times.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~Ogden Nash
This one, because it's different.
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