Family Life Cycle

Today's class on family life cycles was really interesting. Talking about mid-life and later-life really made me think about how my parents act or how they may act when they are older. When we were discussing the empty nest it reminded me of my boyfriends family. He is the youngest to move out and as soon as he moved out two of his high school cousins needed a place to stay so they moved into their house. talking to his parents they explained to me how they were so happy to have an empty nest and now they have to take care of children again. Not that they aren't happy to do it, but they just don't want the freedom of not having any children in the house anymore to be taken away from them. That is when the class got really interesting for me because i had made a huge connection with what we were talking about. Another thing that really surprised me is that mid-life crisis doesn't really exist! i guess it's slightly childish and media-influenced of me to think that a mid-life crisis was true, but i thought that was really interesting. The way the class was taught today really helped me review for the test thursday. it was a really good way to apply what we had learned into situations. i enjoyed it!

Happy studying and good luck thursday!!

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