Enrolling in this class is particularly important as my communication with my five teenage children have taken a dramatic nosedive since their father and I divorced. All five primarily live with me and spend time with their father three weekends a month as per our custody agreement. Unfortunately, the pain following a divorce is not exclusive to just one child, they are all suffering. Some exhibit it overtly and tend to be aggressive in their choice of communication, however, all could benefit from my improving my interpersonal communication skills. (P.11) Tumultuous doesn’t begin to describe what the last year has felt like. Every day is a barrage of worst case scenarios and survival techniques. Personally I can now say I have experience with children who cut, attempt suicide, fail their freshman year of school, lie, steal and exhibit behavior that I have no words to explain. Getting them into counseling was my first choice, but there is a second …show more content…
As the book states, “…these disclosures only intensify the children’s mental and physical distress and make them feel caught between the two parents.” (P. 61) Hindsight allows me to see that it didn’t matter that I felt ganged up on, nor did it matter that I egregiously believed my children were mature enough to handle the scope of information I provided them. While I justified it by telling myself I was providing context or details as to why we were getting a divorce, sharing information that would help them understand why I made the decisions I made, the bottom line is that it was selfish. I was a poor example of how to successfully parent, communicate competently and I don’t know if I can repair the damage I have done. My children might be as tall and eat more than adults, but they are minor children. I was the only adult in the room and I should have kept my mouth
1. The 2nd case study made me reflect on my first head coaching job in football. I was hired by a school in south Texas with the help of a friend I coached with in Oklahoma. He had moved back to his hometown and started teaching and coaching at his high school. He contacted me about the opening and two months later I was hired. I hired him to be one of my assistants and even made sure that he was paid well as a thank you. I was very disappointed with the way he coached that year. I had already make arrangements to move him to a non-coaching position for the next season. I realize I never spoke with him about my expectations or made him aware of how I felt during the season. I identity with Dr. Skinner is some regards. I was caught up in the other aspects of teaching, coaching, and AD duties, I neglected to take care of that issue. I understand that it is OK to hire a trusted colleague or friend but the expectations of them should not be any different of anyone else.
There are many factors that influence divorce, such as adultery, financial strain, and just simply growing apart. Divorce has a huge impact on all of the parties that are involved, especially children. Children may end up in poverty situations as well as deal with a huge range of emotions. Through this group proposal, I will be looking more in depth at the behaviors that elementary school aged children may exhibit when dealing with divorce and how group counseling may help those young children deal more effectively with those behaviors.
When I work as team, I has communication with other member so, it has several solution that can help to improve my communication to have more professional. The initially topics is meeting management. The beginning of working should planning meeting. Meeting divide into 3 parts are before, during, and after. In the part of before, I should know the purpose and role of meeting. During meeting, if it is face to face meeting, I should know agenda of the meeting and participants their role for easy to communicate about work. After meeting, I should sure that I and other team member understand the information of the meeting because I may discuss with other team member. In addition, after the meeting finish, I should prepare myself for the next meeting.
Through out this discussion the reader has seen the effects of divorce on children. These effects are primarily shown in three areas of the childrens lives. These three areas are emotionally, physically, and
I was given the task of visually watching non-verbal actions and communications in today’s time. What I got was not as farfetched as what I had guessed I would learn, but even the elders learn something every once in a while. Below are three situations that I had taken notes over, one being personal one-on-one relation, the others being social situations. Here are my findings
Divorce, as I have witnessed from my own personal experiences, makes children feel they have to grow up quicker than others. I had to assume responsibilities that children my age should never have to do, such as being the messenger in conversation between my parents, dealing with the police, taking care of my brother, stepping up to do chores, taking care of the house, consoling my own parents and stepparents, having conversations about financial situations, and helping to make huge decisions such as moving. Because of these experiences, I wish to communicate to my audience, and learn for myself how divorce impacts the children involved in order for the population to be more accepting and informed on divorce.
Hello, I'm Jennifer Croney, and I am a student in your Writing for Communication course this semester.
Divorce between parents can be disastrous and painful on children. The children in a divorcing family know that many things
According to Granovetter, whether a tie is strong or not is dependent on four factors: amount of time spent together, emotional intensity, intimacy, and reciprocity of services. I tend to define my personal networks as with lots of weak ties, and a few strong ties. Strong ties offer me emotional support and huge favors, and weak ties are good information sources.
Throughout life some haven't stopped advancing and improving themselves. To continue to learn no matter their age since for some it is just a number, a number that can be overseen to learn something that will make an actual difference in their life or others. Communication has always been a necessity but over time has developed in multiple ways due to current level of technology. With this development communication needs to be taught in a controlled manner for the effective use of communication. During this professional and technical communication class over this term has assisted me in the advancement and improvement in my communication. Improvements like giving me an increased ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences as well as that I can more effectively write in
My guided lesson 3 went really well this week. This week the lesson had been implemented exactly the way it had been planned. The lesson began with students looking at the title page and making predictions about the book. Everyone had interesting points to share about the predictions they made. I could tell the students were really excited to read this book as it was very colorful and it got their attention. Before we started reading, I asked the students to look for main events that took place in the book as it will help them retell the story at the end. All the students were able to retell the story to me at the end. What went well the most was the fact that my students brought the main events to my attention on their own before retelling
To avoid the problem of ambiguity rearing its negative head during an already stressing time within the family, parents should actively look to have conversations about divorce related issues with their children (Afifi & McManus, 2010, p.85). The ability to have open conversations about the struggles of the marriage will
Thanks for sharing your personal story on a sensitive topic. I believe your experience with the eye opening residual affects unfriendly divorce can have on children. Your first-hand experience can evoke discussions on cause and effects of destructive behaviors and patterns as they pertain to adolescents.
I didn’t want to do this thru text or messenger I actually wanted to meet up and talk , but since I can’t get you to respond or view my text asking you to meet up I am just gonna do it this way and hope it doesn’t come off as rude . I am not trying to upset you or cause a argument , I just need some answers and I don’t know any other way of getting them .
actions. Identity confusion regarding guilt in children who have experienced divorce forces them to carry unneeded emotions around with them for what can be the rest of their lives.