Late Night Family Thoughts

 Hello everyone! Hope everything is going good with you all. It's been a pretty good week here with me. As someone who is not yet married, and doesn't have a family, I try to prepare myself as best I can for when that time does eventually come. Because when it does, I want to be ready to raise children of my own effectively. I've studied a lot of different good parenting techniques that will help when eventually raising children.  There is a common misconception that being strict is important in raising children. This isn't necessarily true and can even mislead parents into raising children in a way that is not healthy. What's far more important than strictness, is being consistent, confident, and constantly showing warmth. It is very important to remain consistent in our behavior. If we tell our kids not to do something, and then we do that same thing multiple times, our children are more likely to break that rule because the parent is not being consistent in their

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you all are having a great time this week celebrating Thanksgiving and everything. I know I am. And I wanted to put a focus on that for a little for this blog post.  Something that I have always been grateful for, and I think a lot of people will agree with this, is my family. They've done a lot for me, and I don't know where I would be without them. I'm grateful for both my mother and my father, and they are a huge part of who I am today.  I've heard it been said that a mother is the only truly necessary part of a family. A father isn't as necessary or important as a mother. However, I don't necessarily believe that it is true. Sure, the world would like to make us believe that fallacy. In fact, the further in the future we go, the more and more it seems like they promote this belief all over television. I mean, how often in movies is the father made out to be the goofball. The complete buffoon. Men are being depicted in movi

       Hello everyone! Welcome to another post here on my blog. I hope everything has been going alright with you all. Commnication is a HUGE part of our everyday life. We used it all the time, every single day. It's crazy how much communication has evolved over time. A couple hundred years ago, people would never have guessed that you could send people messages with the click of a button instantaneously. However, despite the new advancements' technology has undergone, there are still unique challenges that we face due to these evolutions.      When you're talking to someone, a large chunk of your message, about 51%, comes from your nonverbal communication. This includes things like body posture, movement, and body language. 35% of your message comes from the tone or inflection of your voice. Lastly, only 14% of your message is actually from the words that you say. This was really surprising to me. I thought that words were super important for conveying the right message th

 Hello everyone! Welcome to another post here on my blog, hope you all are doing good. There are a lot of things that I have learned this past week. Something I haven't really thought about before is how important coping is in our lives. I kind of always just assumed it was just about hanging in there, but it's actually a lot more than that. We want our coping to set up and maintain the boundaries around ourselves. It keeps us safe, both the inside and the outside.   It is also very important, in a relationship, to have your spouse become your best friend. This means now going to other people outside of the relationship if you're dealing with something. If there are worries, talk it out with the spouse. I used to think that it was weird to just leave everyone behind when marriage came. To leave all of your friends who are girls behind, like they don't even exist anymore. It was a hard concept to completely wrap my head around, because I thought that I would still be abl

Hello everyone! Welcome to another one of my blog posts. There have been a lot of different things that have piqued my interest this week during my studies into different topics of research. To begin this post, I'd like to start off with a story. It was given by one of my professors at BYU-Idaho. His name was Mr. Williams. I won't go horribly in-depth on every little detail that was said, but I want to at least paint a picture in your mind.  He told a story that took place during his time as a therapist, when a man came in to see him. I won't say exactly why he was there, but he felt like he was on the verge of committing adultery, and he didn't want to do that. He didn't care if he did everything else instead. He just didn't want to take that step. Mr. Williams then gave him a visual to ponder on. He told the man a story about when he was young and he wanted to go to the river to look at the fishes, even though his parents told him not to go near. Yet he still

Hey all, I hope all is well! Welcome to yet another post on this blog!  I've talked about a lot of things these past few weeks. I wrote a post about dating, and about best practices when going on dates with other people. Today, I was going to go along those same lines; however, this time taking it a step further. Dates are fun opportunities to see what we want in a relationship, and in a spouse. And when someone finds a person they feel like is the right one for them, they naturally want to spend the rest of their life with them. It leads them to marriage.  Once marriage comes, everything about life changes. You're no longer by yourself, and you need to get used to living with someone else now. I'm not married myself, but I can relate to living with random people and getting used to the way that they do things. It happened a lot during my mission. I met people from a variety of different backgrounds who didn't do things the same as I did. Sometimes it would even lead to