All Blog Posts Tagged 'family' (3)

                Mother’s day just passed and we probably all spent the day with our moms or at least got her a present. Is that really enough though? Whenever I’m with my friends, I hear a lot of “I hate my mom, she’s such a bitch.” and it really makes me angry. Why do people blame their mom for everything? It always seems to be their fault. “My mom just grounded me for no reason.” Probably not. Admit it, you did something.  I get asked the question, “How come you never get grounded?” It’s…

At my house my family sits down every day at 6:00 to eat dinner. A few decades ago, this was considered standard procedure. Now it seems that this is far less common. I didn't really think it mattered all that much in the scheme of things, but I was reading this article the other day, and I was suprised at the statistics it showed. Did you know that the more often a family eats together, the less likely it…

When I think of an American family, I think of the simple and happy family that was usually portrayed in early commercials: businessman father, stay at home mother, a good son and daughter. I'm not sure why. It seems like that was the ideal portrait of an American family, even though it wasn't true at all, since America is a collection of people from all over the…