Family Cohesion and Flexibility Final Paper

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Felicia Martin (4/29/2024) – (5/5/2024) BHS-430/Introduction to Family Dynamics Week 1- Family Cohesiveness and Flexibility
As a family unit or system, we do not always agree on everything. While we do put in the work to come to a mutual agreement there will always be things that we do not agree completely on as dictated by this interview. This interview is with my husband. For the purposes of this paper, I will call him John. This is obviously not his real name seeing as I will not be revealing his real name. For the purposes of this paper, I am having John type out his own responses without me present in the room to see him do it. Family Interview Question 1: What are some family rituals that your family has? My Response: Some of our family rituals include holidays such as Easter, Halloween and Christmas. I decorate every year for each of these holidays. On Halloween we do something unique that few if any other people know about. I put together a scavenger hunt at the end of which is a Halloween bucket full of candy and other Halloween goodies. I call it The Great Pumpkin scavenger hunt and we pretend that the great pumpkin from the Halloween short “The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” is real. I started this during Covid to avoid the crowds of people and still give the boys a fun time. They enjoyed it so much we decided to keep doing it and are now going into our fourth year of doing it. It also has the added benefit of it being more fun that waiting in a long line of lots of people for candy. John’s Response: I love my wife so much and I love that she goes all out with the kids, but sometimes I wish she would not. This is primarily due to the fact that she already has so much on her plate that adding much else is exceedingly difficult at times. She overextends herself often and I worry about her, but at the same time I adore her, and she is an amazing mother. Question 2: Do you and your family members view your family the same way? My Response: I know that at times I am too gentle with my parenting. The thing is that between my own childhood trauma and two vastly different kids with two vastly different learning disabilities, it is challenging to switch between two different parenting styles frequently. Our oldest has Aspergers and is easily overstimulated making a gentler parenting approach much more productive than a more firsthand physical one. Our youngest has ADHD, making a more firsthand and firmer parenting approach more productive than a gentler one. It makes is so that at times and too firm on one kid and not firm enough with the other. John’s Response: My wife has a lot to balance, but due to her trauma is at times too gentle. She is fairly good at not letting the boys railroad her, but at times does not succeed when she herself gets overwhelmed. I just worry about her with so much on her plate, but I support her in whatever way I can. Question 3: Would your family help you move? Why or why not?
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