Social Trends and the Family
During the past couple of weeks I was on tour in the Midwest with BYU-Idaho’s Sinfonietta. Over the course of two weeks we traveled from Rexburg to Wyoming to Kansas and Nebraska, then on to Missouri, Iowa, and finally Illinois. Each night we stayed with host families, and I learned so much from observing each of the different families I stayed with. I actually stayed with 3 different families that had 9 children each. 2 were older and most of their children were grown up, but one family was younger and had all 9 children under age 15...and a 10th on the way. It was cool to see how their household functioned and how things worked really well for that family. I feel like if I had 9 kids I would go crazy! But it was really cool to see that families that large do exist in the world still, and they function quite well.
During the past couple of weeks I was on tour in the Midwest with BYU-Idaho’s Sinfonietta. Over the course of two weeks we traveled from Rexburg to Wyoming to Kansas and Nebraska, then on to Missouri, Iowa, and finally Illinois. Each night we stayed with host families, and I learned so much from observing each of the different families I stayed with. I actually stayed with 3 different families that had 9 children each. 2 were older and most of their children were grown up, but one family was younger and had all 9 children under age 15...and a 10th on the way. It was cool to see how their household functioned and how things worked really well for that family. I feel like if I had 9 kids I would go crazy! But it was really cool to see that families that large do exist in the world still, and they function quite well.
I also stayed with a single mom family.
There were only 2 children, and it was crazy to see how differently these
families were raised. The family with only 2 children had a lot more freedom,
which isn’t necessarily a good thing. They also had a completely different
view on family. In the stronger families I stayed with, I could tell that
family meant the world to them. Even if they didn’t necessarily have 9
children, family was still of great importance.
In my
current family I have 4 younger siblings, and I grew up with family being an
essential part of my life. They guy I’m currently dating, Tanner, grew up in a
very different family. He has 8 siblings, but his father was divorced and
remarried twice, so many of the siblings come from different marriages. It’s
really complicated, and neither of us want that for our future families. by observing different types of families, we can learn a lot about how a family can be successful.
