Personal Narrative: Ayden's Insane Family

Family is a grand thing, and I think that is the reason that God created it the way he did. It’s full of many members that come together to love and care about one another. Maybe I’m partial, but I think that my family is the best. Family dinner once a week and twice on holidays, worshiping together at our church, coming together with people that you love is an amazing thing. We tell each other about our week, and our older relatives tell us of how things used to be. The stories are one of my favorite parts. Countless stories are passed down through the generations in every family. Tales that tell of how we came to be and the trials that ancestors before us went through and learned from. Every family’s story is unique, including mine. The story my family tells most often, is the story of Phillip Hamman.

My family is one of a kind. They support me all the time. My dad comes home each day after doing an eight hour shift and manages all the bill payments. My mom cooks, cleans, goes to job, helps me and my brother with homework, and drops/ picks us up from classes every single day. Last but not least, my brother is always there for me. He shares everything with me, even his favorite chocolates. And he is the one that teaches me the forms that I didn’t get in the karate class. Even though we fight a lot, I couldn’t have asked for a better brother than him. I love my family very much and they will always be dear to

Moreover, my family has always been very accepting on what I do. In spite of the fact that I feel like my mom has supported and understood me the most, my whole family has always been there. They always make sure that I have complete coherence that everything I do has a consequence. A balance of both sides is always maintained in my house hold in order to make proper decisions. What makes my family unique is

Although your family is supposed to know you best & help you, they can sometimes do the opposite. In the book The Scarlet Ibis doodle’s brother did not respect doodle with his disability, because back then disabled people were seen as useless. Whenever brother had to go somewhere he had to take doole with him and he made him feel bad for it. This excerpt is an excerpt from the book, “to discourage his coming with me, I’d run with him across the ends of cotton rows and careem him around corners on two wheels. Sometimes I accidentally turned him over, but never told mama.” this excerpt proved that he did not care for doodle and he just treated him like another one of his play toys. “ one day I took doodle up to the barn loft and showed him his casket, telling him we all had believed he would die… doodle studied the mahogany box for a long time then said ‘it's not mine’, ‘it is’ I said ‘ and before i’ll help you down from the loft, you are going to have to touch it’. ‘I won’t touch it he said sullenly. ‘ then i will leave you buy yourself’ I threatened, and made it as if I were going down.” This excerpt show how mean brother was to doodle and how much he brought him down and made him feel less than he really was. Family can also push you to hard, leading to sometimes deadly outcomes like

Around 1982, the most terrifying, yet beautiful situation happened in the Allred family. The divorce of my father’s parents, Bobby Gene Allred and Debra Dixon Allred, split one family into two. Later in 1997, Bobby Lynn Allred and Gana Janelle Beesinger were married. This beautiful ceremony took three families and combined them all into a chaotic masterpiece. Most people get the privilege of two family get togethers, but I get that advantage plus one. For me, food, fellowship, and memories is what makes life jump for joy.

My family is anything but ordinary, but it is this uniqueness that has shaped me into the person I am today.  I grew up in an Indian family of 9...yes 9! It’s not that I have 6 other siblings; alongside my parents and older brother Jaineel, I also live with my aunt, uncle, two cousins, and grandfather. Indian tradition calls for the sons of the family to care after their parents when married, so my dad and and his brother deemed the best way to fulfill this role is to have a joint family with their father, wives, and children. My cousins, Annika and Zuri, have been by my side since day one and are truly considered my sisters.  Living with so many people had changed me for the better; I have learned to greatly appreciate the love, support, and

One of the substance abuse interventions I recently led, resulted in a very public miraculous healing. I was contacted by the McCracken family early in 2015 to lead a last chance intervention for their son Jeff. Jeff McCracken was barely alive when we got him to treatment. Once he arrived at the facility we had in place, they immediately sent Jeff to the hospital. His medical condition was dire, he was given two months to live and sent to Hospice. In Hospice, Jeff’s parents requested our team to pray over him. Within days of that event, Jeff had an incredible turn around and was released from Hospice and entered a program. I sponsored Jeff throughout the recovery process. God has utterly transformed his life. Dubbed a modern day “Lazarus,”

Every family has its quirks and odd traditions. Quite often there are conflicts or emergencies in families that can leave awkwardness behind. There can be a troubled child or an alcoholic parent, which causes other members of the family to act out. Many forms of abuse can also be classified as dysfunction in a family. In William Faulkner’s

Every family's values and beliefs are different from each others. Some things that are normal to one family, can be something crazy to another. This all depends on how a person was raised, and what values and roles were taught to them. Through the ups and the downs every family goes, people react differently and their true nature comes out. An example of this is displayed in the two shows The Brady Bunch and Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

Wow, was the first thought that came to mind when watching the film August Osage County, which depicts a chaotically enmeshed family. Erratic discipline and dramatic role shifts were visible within this families. Drugs and alcohol kept this family in a constant state of chaos where individual’s reactions are unpredictable. The family rule seems to be that the females are mean. Speak your mind, don’t hold your tongue and never think of how what you say will affect others.

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My immediate family consists of my mother, father, older brother, and myself. Murray Bowen’s principle on multigenerational emotional processes describes my family so well. In my family, we have similar communication patterns with the added bonus of having an excess of emotional reactivity. I come from a very loud family who has the tendency to overreact to something that starts out as minor but quickly escalates into something of a more serious nature. Bowen states that families with an excess of emotional reactivity usually produces emotional distances, physical or emotional dysfunction, overt conflict, and/or projection of problems on to children. These symptoms together can cause a family to have some distress within the family and affect the overall family cohesiveness.

These are questions that have always plagued me because I just didn’t know the answers. I am the only child of very secretive and isolated parents. They weren’t inclined to discuss their heritage or to have much to do with their extended family. And I’ve always been curious. The few relatives that I have met are vastly different from me in appearance as well as disposition. While they are garrulous and larger than life individuals, I’m just a quiet little squirt. So, what’s up with that? To find some of the answers to these

No one can’t meet a family like mine’s. My family is well diversified. Every family member plays an important role in all my family’s lives. In my family, there are four people: my father, my mother, my little brother and me. My father is one who brings money home and is also responsible for organizing and planning family trips. My mother is the one who is in charge for making meals and makes sure everyone eats at the appropriate times. My little brother is the pet of the family. He actually doesn’t have any responsibilities, for he’s the pet. I am the rock of support in my family. I always go beyond my parents’ expectations. I also support my younger cousins and little brother, by being a role model that they can look up to. Another

Family Members: My extended family is a unique blend of beautiful characters held together by the word “family”. They are spirited Germans who solve everything with Spätzle and smiles, each have their own opinions, tastes, and humor. Generally, I just try to be blend in, go-with-the flow when it comes to the in-laws. As for my mother and seven siblings, I make a point to stay close to them and be supportive. They are a big part of my connection to who I am and where I came from, that is something I do not want to forget.