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General Reflection : My Family

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General Reflection/Overview My family is deemed to be what is referenced as a nuclear family. A father, mother, and their offspring biological and adopted living together under one household. My family was of low socioeconomic status and due to this position, we were raised in a low-income neighborhood. However, that did not affect how my mother and father reared their family. I am the third child in a family of five. My role in the family was that of a helper to my mother of household duties and a caretaker of my younger siblings. My parents did a wonderful job of nurturing my siblings and I by providing a faith based structure that gave each of us a solid foundation. My parents ingrained strong ethics, values and traditions in my …show more content…

Communication
Communication in my family was viewed as significant, open and honest. My parents made certain if we had an issues or concerns or if they had any issues or concerns that were addressed. My parents would encourage and provide an atmosphere of trust, guidance, and reverence. This set the tone for each of my siblings and myself to feel comfortable when communicating to our parents. My siblings and I communicated with the same level of integrity valuing each other’s point of view, agreeing, agreeing to disagree, and feeling valued as a member of the family. Whenever a situation of conflict arise my parents would sit the disagreeing parties down listened to all point of views, gave a conversation about the situation, ask for feedback, and made their decision based on facts that were presented. There were no harsh or iron fist ruling my parents were very fair however, you knew that they were in charge.
Although very close to both of my parents I shared more of a bond with my mother, I admired my mother so much she was such a kind, sweet woman, very soft spoken and gentle. There was no subject that was taboo with my mother, even the subject of discrimination, tyranny, and bias that people hold. She often would talk about her duty to make us aware of the happenings of the outside world and how we were perceived as African

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