Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Genograms
I really enjoyed Tuesday's lecture on genograms. It was fun listening to how each person's family is unique in their own way. Some, like mine, can be very simple to others who have complex families. However, as I was sitting in class, I started to do a rough sketch of my own family's genogram. Drawing out each relative was pretty easy until I started to think of the relationships each person had with oneanother. Eventhough my genogram may seem normal structual wise, once I started to add in relationships, it started to get pretty complicated. My father's sister has basically cut off ties with our family entire family except for my father's sister-in-law. My mom and her sister are really close and keep close ties with my grandmother. My mom's sister-in-law and her do not get along with each other and the list just grows on from there. I am really looking forward to completing the rest of my genogram to learn more about my family then I ever would have.
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I agree with you that Tuesday lecture was pretty fun. I couldn’t believe how complex and unique everyone family was like either. I guess mine is pretty normal too beside the fact that we had lots of death in our family. I hadn’t realized how much until I started to map thing out too. I don’t even know why some of my uncle and aunt on both my parent side die because I wasn’t even born at that time yet and some die pretty young too so no one really want to mention about anything that had happen so long ago. Also I haven’t go back to my home country for 10 years already so I have a lots of cousin who now have their own children that I have never met. So I guess this will be exciting for me to learn more about my family history and the additional of new faces, especially my new sister in law. I’m excited to call long distance and ask my brother how their wedding goes after this Friday.
I'm pretty excited to do this, although I'm sure it will be time consuming. I think it will be fun to get to know the dates and personalitites that are significant to my family.
I think more people should do this just to see their family all laid out. Its nice to also see that many people in the class have both complex and simple families...it makes life more interesting and just shows that every family is diffrent.
I am so excited to do this project also! My family is not at all normal by any means. There are a lot of adoptions and funny, weird, and bizarre things that have happened in my family. I think it's hilarious to put all of this information onto a piece of paper, it's actually proving to be really hard for me to explain things and use the correct symbols. I'm really happy that my roommate is also in this class. We have had a lot of fun discussions about our families late at night.
I would have to agree! I thought it was interesting to hear a glimpse of everyone's families. It is reassuring to hear that there is no "perfect" family or not one that anyone has lived up to yet. I think he will have a lot of fun learning about our families. I can't wait to go home and start this project with my parents (because I know I'll need their help)! Good Luck to all I hope this is a great learning and exciting experience for all of you.
I'm kind of interested in getting started on my genogram as well. I was sitting there in class listening to everyone with their complicated family structures and relationships, just comparing each to mine. My family is very simple, I only have three cousins from only two sets of aunts and uncles, on my mom's side. My dad was adopted when he was young and both of his adoptive parents passed when he was young so I don't even know any of his side of the family... But I figure I might attempt to spice up my "boring" family with some of the unknown of his side of the family... Good luck!
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