My Family Essay

Families are a critical part of a child’s development. Members of the family can be effective role-models for children. They can provide coping for problems, provided information and knowledge on certain tasks and generally be emotional supports which can be applied later on in life for the child. This enables them to developed efficient social skills for future activities. In short, my family have supported me a lot throughout my life—shaping the person I am today. Without them, I would not…

I come from a family that I have had the opportunity to learn so much from throughout my lifetime. My parents, Debbie and Steve, have been married for 27 years and support my siblings and I every day. I have two siblings. My brother, Colin, is 26 years old and began living in Philadelphia upon graduating from Temple University. My sister, Allyson, is about to turn 15 and she is a freshman in high school. Even though there are eight years of separation between my sister and I, we still have a…

culture and overall background, but so many people have no idea where their past ancestors have originated from. I have done some reasearch on my migration story and have gotten the opportunity to learn some interesting things I did not know about my family. All of my great grandparents from my mother’s side of the family have originated from Germany. My grandma’s father’s name was Otto Nawrocki and he was a hard working military man who served in WW2. His wife was that of Erma Luis, a stay at…

began this assignment I thought I knew my family, however, that was not the case. I wished I knew more about my family and their origins, but being a military child we moved around a lot and never really had a close connection with our immediate family. I would say my family structure is the typical American nuclear family, where it was just my parents and my siblings growing up. However, this was not always the case within my family. My great grandfather on my fathers’ side came from Ireland.…

Ecomap Explanation The event I decided to do my ecomap on was when my older sister, Ledai, got pregnant in her junior year of high school. This happened about 9 years ago, but I can still remember all of the issues and stress that this situation brought to our household. Looking back on it, I really do not understand why there was so much drama surrounding this. Energy/ Resources Throughout this entire time in our life there were a bunch of different sources of both positive and negative…

Mid-autumn Festival in my family. The festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunar calendar. Traditionally, the meal is used to celebrate harvest because many crops, such as corn, sweet potatoes, rice, beans, and peanut, are harvested in autumn. Today, more and more people do not plant crops and the meal is gradually becoming a get-together meal for family members. Sometimes, the ritual meal is held in my family in Shenzhen and sometimes we go back to my…

hold or break a family. As different types of traumatic events occur through the course of history it can evolve a human’s genetic disposition and how people raise the next generation. My family exemplifies both of these trends through their own foundation. When my family merged with other families the way everyone handled anxiety continued to transform. I therefore, learned to apply different anxiety responses dependent upon the situations that I faced. My mother’s side of the family uses…

be a part of that community. I obtain my Latin blood from my father, who moved to the United States from Uruguay as a child. My parents divorced each other when I was young; however, when I was with him for either the weekend or the month of July, I embraced all the wonders of my Latin family. Latino culture entails prodigious amounts of cooking, and we always cooked Uruguayan food; it was almost taboo to eat out. From flan to the glorious empanadas, my family always ate homemade meals. Yet, I…

Every family has a story, a unique one at that. We are all a mix of different elements, family origin, nationality, background, forming us into one big masterpiece; similar to the way my family makes my favorite meal. What we choose to eat and the foods our families prepare define us as a person, allowing others to get a glimpse of our personality and culture. A particular dish that helps define me and holds a deep meaning in my heart are pierogi. Coming from a strong Polish background,…

Similar to our other forms of communication, most of our family rules were unspoken. My family rules were very traditional and typical of a Black American family. Proverbs 13:24 (NIV) states: “Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.” This verse was the cornerstone of my nuclear and extended family alike for most of my childhood. We received beatings and whoopings publicly, privately, and unexpectedly for all things,…