Essay About Family History

What I know or have learned about my family history is that my entire family as a whole owns a lot of different types of family businesses dating far back in generations. Some businesses are continuing in the family, some are not certain if they will stay in the family, and unfortunately others have left the family. Another thing I have learned about my family deals with relationships. Next would be aspects of my family history that I would preserve or leave behind. Lastly, there are the family peak experiences and notable successes that have happened over the years and generations.
Starting from the most recent one that my mom has owned for 5 years now. She is an owner, one of three, of a print shop company. One of the other owners has several …show more content…
Things that help keep relationships well within families is to separate work life to family life as best as possible, to communicate and articulate well with each other, to have a good work ethic so that it does not seem like the owners are playing favorites due to family members. This is something that I make sure that I do when I am working, because I want to be treated like everyone else at work, even though I know I am held at a higher standard in one of the owners eyes.
Besides having good family relations as a family we have several family values that we try to stick to. These include having a good work ethic, to be responsible for your actions, to be fair, to be optimistic because you need to try to find the positives in life and thrive off of that. As my pawpaw says he values brilliance, education, and sticking up for what you believe in. My meemaw values compassion, competence, integrity, honesty, and love. Each person can value different things that are what makes you who you are. These are just some examples of values shared to me as well as values that I have grown up