End of the Semester

So today was my last class period in Family Relations and honestly I can say I learned more in this class than any of my others. This class taught me how to keep my marriage going and to keep it healthy. It taught me that hard times will come but gave me tools as how to overcome them with my spouse. From taking this class I have decided to become a Marriage and Family psychologist because I feel that there is so much that can be fixed in a family and so many things go unnoticed. I will continue to post from time to time on things that I learn in my other family classes so that everyone can know the techniques to saving, keeping, and renewing a marriage.

Divorce

I have always wondered why divorce is so common now. After taking this class and having lessons on it i now understand. One of the reasons that I feel is the main reason is allowing outside factors to come in. We talked about a situation where in an early marriage the mom let in her mother and consulted her on everything and not her husband. From that it drove a force into the marriage and that led to divorce because there was no connection. What people do not understand is that divorce really is not the answer, there are so many little things that you could change to save a marriage. A statistic that Brother Williams gave in class was the after 2 years of being divorced most said that they regretted the divorce and knew that if they had tried hard enough that they could have saved the marriage. After hearing that I really wonder why people don't try to fix it and just decide to split up a family.

Discipline

What is the right way to discipline your child? This is the question that many parents ask and few get the answer they want. Today in class we learned 6 ways to discipline that will help you effectively. First off before you begin to respond to a situations ask yourself: Who owns the problem, Parent or Child? Second, seek to allow children to learn from the natural consequences of problems. Third, exceptions where you cannot allow for natural consequences are if it is too dangerous, the consequence is not till to far in the future, and if someone else is effected. Fourth always want to provide support. Fifth, give discipline but politely. Sixth and final give logical consequence as a response. After learning this I realized that disciple is not easy and takes lots of thought and consideration. Before you discipline your child taking these 6 suggestion into account.