FAMILY

The common definition of a family is a group of people that may be made up of partners, children, parents,aunts, uncles, cousins,niece, grandparents... family is a group of people who share common ancestors...

We have two types of family which include:

The nuclear family and the extended.

The nuclear family:this is made up of just the father,mother and their children...

The extended family:this is made up of the father,mother, children, grandparents,uncle's Aunty's niece, cousins

These are the normal and common understanding of a family..

But have we for once consider to look further and deeper into the word family???

I will like to share the few ideas I have about a family..

A family is not just only made up of father,mother, children and other relative but it is a way of getting a better understanding about life,it is the first chain of socialization..

Whatever happens in a family affects a child and reflect in his/her life and character...

If you make a child feel depressed he will always act depressed,if you as a parent fight with your partner on a daily basis that poses a bad image to your child about Marriage...

My friend normally tells me that she doesn't want to get married,at first I thought it was just a mare child's mentality but it became too often and serious,so I decided to call her and ask her why she said such repeatedly,at first she refused telling me but after much persistence she opened up and told me of how her parents always fight countless number of times each day for little or no reason...

At that point i felt really bad and felt sad on hearing her story...

So I exposed her to the secrets of a family and told her that this only happens when you get married to the wrong person. though tough times may come up, there might be quarrels and fight,but, it shouldn't be exposed to the children because they watch parents like a television...

So I tried convincing her that all Marriages are not the same, and one shouldn't be used to judge others...

Family is also a means of learning because when u nurture a child in a particular way the child grows up with such mentality and become used to it,that he/she cannot be convinced otherwise by peers or friends...

Parents should educate their children on the dangers of making the wrong decisions and following the wrong set of friends...

Train up a child in the way he/she should grow and when he/she grows he will not depart from it...