Today's lecture on socioeconomic diversity was really interesting to me. It was really interesting to think about it in terms of how families are affected. Now it's obvious that everyone knows that today's economic situation has affected many people. But it was interesting to see how much if affected people in my class. During discussion one person said that they had lost a years worth of tuition. That's a lot of money, in state or out of state. That adds so much stress to any person who has to go through it. In class i was thinking about how my family was affected by the current situation and i couldn't think of anything for the life of me. Finally it hit me. I don't know why it didn't occur to me earlier but my family was really affected by it. My dad has been a stay at home dad since i was a little girl. He retired from the air force at an early age to stay home and take care of me and my little brother. My dad now has a full time job and isn't home as much as he used to be. He used to work nights so it wasn't so different from the way things were before. He was home all day and then would work 5-11 p.m. but now he goes to work at 6 a.m. an hour and a half before my mom goes to work. So he isn't home at all during the day. My brother is an 8th grader right now and i can't imagine how weird it is for him to not have dad home during the day like he used to be. My brother is also very active in sports and plays basketball for his middle school. That was one ting we were all worried about. That my dad wouldn't be able to come to any of his basketball games like he used to. He still misses some of them, but he makes the majority of them.
Even though we had a huge change in our family, we still make it work and when he's not working we just make the most of the time we have with him. Honestly i think it's made us a stronger family which is really amazing. We drew the positive from the negative.
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