The Ideal Family?

One thing that I admire about my parents was their ability to raise eleven children that all turned out to be outstanding people. Now most of my brothers and sisters are successful business owners or doctors and they all have families that still go to church and are very strong in the gospel. Now doing what my brothers and sisters do it was ultimately their choice but since my parents raised them they had a very big impact on what they learned and what they did and how the grew up. However as I've communicated and talk to my older brothers and sisters I have found out that they contribute most of their success to the things that they learned while they were young and at home under the guidance of our parents. I found that really interesting because here they are very successful and what they do and they had more years away from home then they did at home and more time to think for themselves, learn at school, and at work, but yet they contribute most of their success to our parents...

As human beings we learn to deal with stress in many ways. This is called coping. there are many different types of coping forms. Good ones, bad ones, healthy ones, not healthy ones. What is coping exactly? Coping is doing something that will help you ignore something that's important or that you're dealing with at the time. According to google - “Coping  is defined as what people do to try to minimize stress and is commonly seen in health psychology as problem-focused, that is, directed at reducing the threats and losses of the illness, or emotion-focused, namely directed at reducing the negative emotional consequences”  Now that makes coping sound good and it can be a good thing. However there are many different ways that people cope that are not so good and not so healthy. For example I have a friend and she copes with emotional stress and emotional pressure by cutting herself. Now this isn’t so great mentally or physically. How there are other forms of coping that are...

I love this quote from Humpty Dumpty that helps explain the complexity of communication, it goes like this “when I use a word it means what I choose it to mean neither more nor less”-Lewis Carroll’s ‘Looking through the Glass’. What Humpty Dumpty was saying here could not have been more wrong, communication is so complicated. It would be nice if it was a simple as choosing a word to mean what you want it to mean and having everybody understand what you're talking about or what you're meaning or even what you're feeling. However this is simply not the case. Along with verbal communication there are also many different types of nonverbal communication. Even with just verbal communication there are many different ways to express something, how you say it, or how you present it, could mean very well the opposite of what you were saying. For example, in our Laura Laura Chapter 9. It gives the example of saying I love you now depending on how you say it, it could mean something q...