Class or no Class

Social class is something that no one is immune to in this country and often times it is something that we don't even think about at times and at other times its all people think about or it is what people are judged by and how we look at them. I grew up in the military and lived on bases for most of my life and on a military base your class is based on your military rank and if you are a higher ranking officer than the person next door. Also with military housing your rank can determine what kind of a house you get an E8 officer is going to have a bigger and nicer house than an E1 officer its just how it works. When I think of social class it often makes me sick that we judge people by where they live, how they live, how much money they have or don't have or their name, social class can be as widely classified as the country or even world or as small as your community and family. I do not find it fair that we are classified to a cretin title because we may fall into a cretin class statics I would like to think of us as all being equal and unfortunately that is not the case. In the eyes of the Lord we are all his children and he dose not love one of us more than another and I am going to try hard to follow that example and I would encourage everyone to do the same.

Family future, past and present

This week we have been talking about family and the structure of family and how over the generations your family may have stimulates that you may not even realize until you take a look at the family history. some families have things that are common through the years they may see patterns As I was looking at my family history I realized that my dad is a lot like his dad and my brothers are a lot like my dad. I am a lot like my mom but in ways my mom is not like her mom. Families are funny and different but they are your family and they shape who you are but if there are things that you do not like than it is your responsibility to change it. I know that I got really lucky with my family and we didn't really have any big family probables I have learned so much from them and I hope to some day to teach my family the things that I have learned and allow them to teach me.

To work or not to work

This week in class we have been talking about a lot of things one of the things that I have found to be the most interesting is the topic of working moms. We kind of brought up how over the last decade more and more moms are working and less are staying home with there children. I understand that there are some situations where there is no other option than for a mom to wok and for there children to go to daycare or a babysitter. Over the years it has become a demeaning stereo type to be a stay at home mom and a lot of wean think that it is not as so much more to do out there in the world. I personally grew up with a mother who was able to stay home with us until my little sister was in school and than she worked a job that she was home when we got home now I understand that this was a very fortune thing to have I have also been a preschool teacher for the last 6 years and have seen children that spend more time in a day care than they do at there own home. I feel that it is so important that if it is possible for a parent to stay at home during the most curtail time of a child's development.

Welcome to my blog

So this is the first ever post on a blog I have no idea what I am doing and I am looking forward to learning more about it. I am creating this blog for my family and marriage class and so a lot of my topics will be directed to those topics. I am looking forward to feedback and comments thank you all for your time to read this and enjoy.