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August 14th, 2006
Family Issues
Good Morning,
Hope you are all enjoying these final days of summer. The kids and I are wishing it would last a lot longer. We’re all dreaming of sunny beaches as a permanent way of life.
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Skye Thomas
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Feature Article of the Week:
Family as an Entity
As a mother, I feel that it is my duty to look out for the needs of each individual
in the family. I believe that no one person -
First let us look at the dynamics as they pertain to the individuals in the family.
The adults cannot make themselves the center of the universe. Parents who are so
caught up in their own careers, relationships, or just in their own heads all of
the time, often have lonely depressed children who doubt their parents’ love and
devotion. Studies have already shown a very high percentage of teens experimenting
with drugs and alcohol are from homes where the parents are too self-
On the other hand, it’s very easy as parents to sacrifice ourselves for the greater good of the family. I suspect that this dynamic plays into the resentments and underlying tensions found in most households. The adults often give up their dream jobs, drop out of college, or stops having a social life outside of the family because at some point along the way it seemed like the answer to some problem. For whatever reason, there is no time, energy, or money left for the adults when all is said and done. They seldom get to pick up those pieces of themselves that they sacrificed along the way. The parents should not become martyrs to their kids or “The Family.” It is up to the parents to find a healthy balance between these two extremes.
We all know people who say that the children should always come first -
The hidden entity is “The Family” as a unit. I’ve watched families that focused on each individual’s needs, schedules, etc to the point that there really wasn’t a family left when all was said and done. The parents are busy scheduling their own lives while the teenagers are living independent lives dropping by the house to eat and sleep, but otherwise completely disconnected from the family and the little ones are so busy with soccer leagues and music lessons and play dates with their friends that they have no real sense of what family is about. Everyone is happy, busy, flourishing individuals, but “The Family” as a unit has almost completely disappeared.
I’ve also seen families that went the opposite direction and nobody got their personal needs met because everyone had to constantly sacrifice for the greater good of “The Family.” Your career is decided at birth as well as whom you will marry because you must uphold the family name or the family traditions. Those people come to hate what family represents and want to bust out of the prison of it all. Once again, the answer lies in the parents needing to find a balance between “The Family” and the individuals.
As a mother, it’s my job to juggle the needs and dreams of every single member of our household. I always try to remember that secret entity “family” and what is it that “The Family” needs and dreams of. I teach my kids to not only look at how their needs impact each other, but also how it affects “The Family’s” needs. For example, if I let my teenagers spend the extra money after the bills are paid each month, then how will the family get to go to Disneyland this summer? They are an active part in helping to determine “The Family’s” needs and goals as well as their own. I am very much a part of who gets included. “Wait a minute guys, did you forget that I need a new monitor for my computer before you get another game for your Xbox?”
In so doing, they come to understand that they are important, but not more important
then me and I am not less important then they are. The two-
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