Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The older brother

If there are two or more kids in the family there is always a baby who is the eldest. It is all about elder brother and about who they are for younger brothers and sisters. First of all, elder brother it is always a support and protection. It is a guy who will always be there when you need someone next to you but you can’t let your parents to be there. The elder brother is like parent sand the very best friend you can trust at the same time. You can tell him anything you need to tell and you cannot be afraid of being punished but you know that he will help you. And the elder brother is actually a person of a character. From his very childhood he knows that he has to be a support and protection for his younger sister or his younger brother. They are actually grown up as kind and noble and brave people, those who have younger sisters or younger brothers. But, if there is a rule there is an exception of this rule and in case a guy can’t realize what the elder brother mean he will never be even close to this guy I told you about.

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Mutual care

There are a lot of people around you and they are friends of you or they are just people you know or they are just people you work with. There are a lot of people around you and you feel great when with them and you have fun together and do many things. Though, most of these people are next to you while you are okay and while everything is great with you and they are simply gone if something is wrong and troubles are knocking on your door. And when such things happen you go to those people who will always be next to you and who will never let you down and will never leave you. And you call these people a family. They are those who will stay right by your side no matter on what. They will be there when you need them no matter whether you are the most famous and successful person in the world or you are the lost soul that has no one and nothing in this life. They are support and they are the meaning of this life and you should treat them just the same way. This is the mutual care and this is what makes people a family.

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Friday, April 24, 2009

What type of family do you have?

I have encountered a very cool definition in the net several days ago – ‘the cereal packet family’. This is how sociologists name the image which most of the people hold of the family. You know, it is when they show on TV what a family is: breakfast, children prepared for school and father with a newspaper are sitting around the table eating cereals and mother is preparing school lunches. Remember scenes of the “Beethoven” movie or any of the countless commercials.

But do any of you have such a happy (or even full) family like this?

I explored that mine for example was what sociologist call a “single parent family”. I had only mother. Those who have both parents present make a so-called “nuclear family” which is probably most common now in the western world (not many of them remind “the cereal packet” one, though). I see that many of my friends around 30-es who have good works but no children belong to what they sociologists call “childless family”.

An “extended family”, or one consisting of the grandparents, parents and children, is now rare. But I see that many immigrants from Asia who coming here bring their parents and live with them in the same house.

Because we now have many divorces, a new type of family became wide spread since the second half of the 20th century – a “stepfamily”. You live or have been living in such kind a family if one of your parents was not your biological one.

So, as I understood such a variety of family types makes ‘the cereal packet family utopia.

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Be Fruitful

Everyone has parents, but unfortunately not everyone has a family, because it’s not only relatives you live with, it’s your home, the atmosphere of peace, love and mutual understanding. Nowadays the eternal values of family have been nearly lost, and it’s not good news.
But it’s not a complete disaster, and you’re able to help your relatives and friends, to help yourself stay here, not disappear but stay forever in minds of your descendants. Firstly, don’t refuse having a family. For what do you live is rather clear, you study, but for what do you live here is family.  Be fruitful, and multiply’ (Genesis 9:2) God said, and we should follow it. Respect not only your parents, but also your children, respect all the members of your family and love them whoever they are.
Be with your family. Start a tradition to have supper together, for example. Set one day in the year (e.g. the day of your marriage) as the day of your family and celebrate it widely.  Follow the advices of your heart, and your clan started with your family will survive throughout history.
And what is family for you?
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