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It's the Final Blog Post!

  Do do do doo, do do doo do doo. Anyways I hope you enjoy my version of the Final Countdown. I at least found it to be quite entertaining. This blog will not be very long even though I have learned so much and could write a very long article. But this is mostly to say thank you for the opportunity that I had to write this blog. I know not a ton of people read it but I have really enjoyed being able to write my thoughts down. I have loved being able to express what I have recently learned, and I have loved learning it. It has been really cool to see how much I have grown and how much I have learned throughout this semester. I know that I will continue to grow so much and that each of us will grow and learn throughout our lives. If you're reading this, know that you are not beyond hope if you want to change. You will always be able to grow and learn from past experiences. It is our choices that make us who we are, including our choices to change and become the person that we need or
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The Answers to Your Parenting Problems...

Haha I wish I had all of the answers to parenting, that would be really amazing. Unfortunately I do not have all of the answers. I mean I'm not even a parent yet. Luckily, I have been parented. I've learned a lot about it from my own parents and I learned some new ways this week in one of my classes. First of all I guess we need to discuss what parenting is. What is parenting to you? Do you like the way your parents raised you, or do you have a different culture that you would like to create within your future or current home? These are all questions that we should be thinking about as we are striving to learn more about parenting. Personally I really love the example my parents set as far as being parents. I mean I think I turned out pretty good. I would like to do some things differently but overall I would like to be a lot like my parents. Someone who lets my kids have some sort of leeway but also has clear expectations of what they expect of you so that you are challenged t
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Money Money Money

Today's world is consumed by thoughts of having enough, being enough and what other people have. Unfortunately we are quite focused on what we think we need. How do we get the things that we need? We get these things through having money. Because of this it can be really hard when a couple decides that they want to start a family. Rather than being able to focus on the family that they want to have, they are often forced to think about how they are going to make enough money in order to provide for their family. The mother often worries about not working because she wants to be able to help provide. Mothers struggle with being home for their children or deciding to work. Going from two incomes to one can put a strain on the finances but at the same time being home for your family is important. So how does one go about doing this? How does a couple transition from having two incomes to one? Hopefully I can share some tips in this blog that will help you to learn more about it. If yo
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Communication the Do's

This week we are going to be talking about communication which I think everyone can improve on. Personally, communication has never been something that I am particularly good at. I'm a naturally shy person and generally tend to keep my thoughts to myself. But I love listening to other people and trying to help them with the things that they are struggling with.Unfortunately when it comes to expressing my own thoughts and emotions things don't work out as well. Oftentimes, I hold my emotions in for so long that when I do try to express them, they come out in a big messy explosion. So how do we change this and do something in the middle of the two extremes? How do we share our feelings without having a big explosion that ends up hurting someone. Luckily our friend Dr. David Burns has come up with a solution. The "Five Secrets of Effective Communication." Everyone loves learning about secrets right, especially when they can help you overcome communication issues that you
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Pressure, Pushing Down on Me, Pushing Down on You...

"No man asks for, under pressure that brings a building down, Splits a family in two, puts people on streets Mm-ba-ba-beh, mm-ba-ba-beh." (Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen) Haha I hope you enjoyed that small song. I think it introduces our topic this week really well actually. This week I wanted to talk about the different pressure's or crises that families and relationships can go through and how we can deal with them in a healthy manner. In the song it says "pressure that brings a building down, splits a family in two, puts people on streets." When something hard happens to our family, we sometimes break apart. In difficult times we let the experiences that we have get in the middle of our relationship, and end up hurting the ones we love rather than drawing closer to them. This is something that is fairly common with people, but it is not what happens to all. In some cases going through difficult things can help families to grow closer to one another.
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Don't Go Breaking My Heart

Woohoo Nobody knows it... Anyway, now that I've gotten that song stuck in your head, what do you think we are going to talk about this week? We're going to talk about how to not break another's heart once you are married. Something I have noticed throughout my life has been that a lot of marriages are not staying together. Divorce is a very common thing or you don't even get married at all. This is something that is kind of terrifying. How do I ensure that my marriage will stay together after I have gone through all the trouble of creating the relationship? How do I make sure that I do not hurt and am not hurt? While there is no possible way that I could go through all of the avenues one can strengthen and help a relationship to thrive in this blog, I will try to go over one major thing which I feel could help any relationship to grow closer together. One major problem that can cause marriages to end is an affair. An affair is when a spouse goes behind the other spouse&
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Marriage, Marriage is What Brings Us Together Today

  So if you didn't get this from the title today we are going to be talking about marriage. I'm not married but as far as I understand marriage is something that can be pretty hard to adjust to. It's a big change that can happen in your life. So how does one properly prepare for it? Can you even prepare for it? What are some steps that one can take? In one of my classes this week we were talking about how the way you date can directly relate to what happens to your relationship once you are married. We were talking about specific steps that one should take before they marry someone and even the steps one can take once they are married. I am going to share these four phases with you and explain how they can help you understand important things to do when preparing to be married. So the four steps are Dating, Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage. So you might be thinking right now "Hanna these are just four steps that people normally do before they get married. Why do I n
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