Personal Values In My Family

It may seem like everyone has the perfect life, but if you were to look more in depth you would see it’s not that way at all. Most people want to presume as having both parents in their life married or divorced, or even have grandparents to go to when they need advice or knowledge. I believe to have a life that couldn’t be any better. I come from a two parent home who both worked very hard to have me sitting where I am today. Without family supporting me I may not be here at college expanding my education even further. But, other kids may not even have the support to get up and even attempt college. It is all about how you were raised, Family is more than important in a young man or woman’s life.

Where do family values stand in today’s world? There is the traditional family that make ends meet no matter what and more common today is the modern family that take divorce like it is no big deal. Kingslover and White give great examples of what a traditional family is like and how the modern family is taking over. The world makes it easy to deplete family values in this day and age but really divorce has been considered for centuries. Divorce has become a regular occurrence and highly prevalent in today’s society, which is focused upon and exemplified throughout the essay “Stone Soup,” whereas, traditional family values and permanent marital status is shown in “Once More to the Lake.”

A family is a group of individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption. Most people are familiar with the term “nuclear families”. However, today the idea of a postmodern family is becoming more and more common. A nuclear family consists of two parents and children. The nuclear family was long held by society as being the ideal in which to raise children. The single parent family consists of one parent raising one or more children on his or her own. This limits income and opportunities in many cases, although many single parent families have help from relatives and friends. The extended family structure consists of two or more adults who are related, either by blood or marriage, living in

Being ethical as an individual defines who you are and what you stand for as a human being. As a professional nurse, being ethical defines how you treat and behave towards your colleagues and the patients. Nursing`s philosophies and worldviews influences an individual’s personal, cultural and spiritual values they possess as a professional. When these philosophies conflict with personal or cultural or spiritual values, then ethical dilemmas arise. Ethical dilemmas puts a nurse in a limbo as it is very hard to choose between what is right in the best interest of the patient.

These values come from an extremely privileged lifestyle, which I attribute to opportunities given to me and my family due many factors including to race, socioeconomic status, having a caring family and living in America and specifically in southern California.

Children are active citizens in society who have the right to make decisions about their education, health and well-being. Enabling children to express their feelings freely allows them to create meaning of the world surrounding them. I understand building strong relationships with children, families and the community helps provide quality care and services in supporting their decision making and respect for the diversity of different cultures. As a result, providing an environment for children to feel a sense of belonging, being and becoming. It is important to continually reflect on my practices and how I respond to families, children and the community.

The values assessment had many different options to choose from. With having such a wide variety of choices, I had to make my decision very carefully. With a lot of thought, I picked helping others, independence, and tangible results. I believe that helping others is the number one characteristic that describes my personality. I constantly go out of my way to help other’s in need. Whenever I am out somewhere and there is an older person either coming in the door or going out the door, I always make my best attempt to hold it open until they are where they need to be. That small act of kindness goes a very long way because more times than others, they appreciate it so much. Seeing the smile on some people’s faces make the kind gesture worth

Over the period of this course and the Political Management Program the most important personal core value I learned is honesty. Honesty has remained the key words that resonates with me in my professional and personal life. Honesty, simply enables a public relations specialist to clearly address issues and crisis. Chris Matthews’s take on addressing crisis and controlling the narrative of the subject illustrates the importance of being honest with the public in times of crisis.

Provide the names, ages, and a short description of your nuclear or main family members. How you define this is up to you.

Ezequiel Pagan  Patrick Williams  English 111  16 October 2014   Family Value and Truth  Family in society is a social structure. Family plays a key role in human life because it can give  people a sense of home, or a loving and supportive group. In most cases when people think of families  they think of having a mom, dad, brother, sister.  However, nothing in life is perfect. Today, we have  separated , same sex, extended, and blended families. Society tries to explain these more contemporary  families but has a harsh way of doing so. In the essay, Stone Soup, by Barbara Kingsolver, she  discusses how society views families and in the essay, Family Values, by Richard Rodriguez, he talks  about American family values. Both

My family has several values such as religion and education. Education is something my family has valued for many years and this is because of my grandfather Bishop Leach Jr. Bishop Leach was born on September 17, 1924. When he was a young child he joined Mt. Sinai A.M.E. Church in Pittsboro, NC. This church has been very important to my family because we have been attending this church for generations. Bishop Leach attended and graduated from Horton High School, which later became Horton Middle School. He graduated at the shocking age of 15. Bishop served in the United States Army once he finished high school. After serving in the Army, he then attended North Carolina College, now North Carolina Central University (NCCU) where he graduated within three years and obtained his B.S degree in social studies in 1952. While in college, he married Myrtle Alston. The couple were married for forty-nine years and had two sons Bishop Bernard Leach and James Benjamin Leach.

As a youngster I remember that my grandmother would rise early, at 6 AM in order to prepare meals for the family for special occasions. She and my mother knew about all our favourite dishes and they would find the time to these special dishes along with the regular breakfast for the family. Food is one of the most important binder for any family and modern, nuclear families have a difficult task in conserving this connection. It is difficult to prepare meals from scratch when you have to work, drop the kids at school, manage the house, and do the shopping, while maintaining the relationships with friends and loved ones? Even with all the innovating things and resources available in the modern kitchen, we may not be able to be as resourceful in the kitchen that our grandmothers did twenty or thirty years ago. However, it is imperative for everybody to respect family traditions and preserve the culinary knowledge that has been

Values are something that an individual holds to be important and meaningful in their lives and every day decisions. Most people are not even sure of which values they actually adhere to or find more important in their daily lives. It takes a bit of deep thought and self-reflection in order to find what one holds most dear in their lives. Life experiences may also change what a person values not only from themselves but from others as well. Such as a person who may value competitiveness in the workplace, may not enjoy it as much if they are passed up for a promotion or a raise. Family and religious background also play a role in shaping ones set of values. A person who comes from a family of farmers may value hard work more than someone who comes from a family of politicians that would find their reputation to be more important. Values are generally adopted at an early age from the ones who raise us and change as we adapt to adult life. So they are not set in stone, and we change what we hold dear according to what we experience in life. My personal values have changed many times over the years due to changes in lifestyle, career choice, additions to the family, and the need to better myself for my family.

When i was younger i always believed that i would have the ideal family. Unfortunately that changed the moment when my mom and and dad got a divorce. At that time i was 10 years old, i didn't really understand what was going on but i knew it wasn't good. The reason they were getting a divorce was because my mom found out that my dad was having an affair.

What is a family? What parts make up a family? These two questions are questions that millions of adults and children ask themselves regularly. When people think about a family in their head they think of a nuclear family. Where you have a Mom, Dad, and a few kids running around a home in the middle of a suburban wasteland. That is the nuclear family that I feel most modern families strive to be like. But factors can change within a family and still be a family. I do not believe that a family is strictly based off what people see from the front porch looking in. A family is about the everlasting bond that is formed between a group of people whether they are related by blood or by other means. A family is a group of people who stick together during hard times and good times, they laugh together and they cry together. They eat meals together, party together, are weaved together in life. They are like a strip of palm leaves, and when you weave a bunch of them together it makes a basket, that is a family. The people that someone can call at two in the morning on a Wednesday just because they can’t sleep. The ones who would sacrifice anything to help them. The bond can never be broken because the word “family” holds them together like glue to wallpaper.