Wednesday, February 4, 2009
tspies-Blog 2
After listening to everyones' questions and concerns on Tuesday, I was very much surprised to read a few blogs this evening about nervousness of exposing family information or excitement of getting to know your family better etc. I think the feelings of all classmates vary greatly. However, I was still shocked by several individuals' willingness to expose such personal,even crazy, family history to the class on Tuesday. Many people in the class sat quietly while others were brave enough to share their "not so perfect" family information. Whether you were quiet or open to sharing, I noticed the enormously curiousity of the whole class. I think as humans we are very much intriqued by seeing how others( and their families) interact and then judge our own families. Many ideas about families have been formed by that "socially constructed belief"; however, I think a limited number of families fit that critique. The diversity of families and the micro or meso systems each person faces each day makes each family unique. I think one of the main things to remember when doing this genogram is to learn about your family and maybe the structure is different (and may stick out)but if that structure gives you a solid, well-working function it may just be alright.
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I wanted to comment on your blog because I found it very interesting that some of the people in our class were so comfortable sharing personal information about their families. I know I would not feel comfortable releasing information about my family to a whole class of people that do not know me. I almost feel like it is being disloyal to your own family to release that kind of information. I also think people are going to provide way too much detail in these genograms. I think the purpose of these genograms is to see the structure of the family and basic relationships within the family. I do not think it is necessary to add every little dispute within the family. I also think it is interesting that we can include people that are not actually family in our genogram. I think that is important to remember that there may be people in your life that have had a huge impact on you, therefore you can consider them family.
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