What A Semester! I'll Miss YOU!!!

Well, "largest group I have ever taught", I have to say, this was a nutty semester! I kept thinking people would drop so I kept adding and what the ????? Hardly anyone bailed! Good work people, you have done well and stuck with it! Thanks for sharing and growing along with me this semester--Good luck in your interpersonal relationships! For this blog, please share one relationship in your life that might benefit from what you learned this semester and one moment in class that impressed you, made you laugh or inspired you! Have a GREAT summer and behave yourselves for goodness sakes!!!

Study Guide Questions/Chpt 12: Families

Hi Gang! Welcome back from break! For this blog, please post 3 things:

1.) After reviewing the study guide found here on the blog home page on the right hand side of the screen (under 'pages') --Do you have any questions?

2.) When it comes to family communication, hwat is your family's style? Which stage of the family life cylce is your immediate family currently engaged in?

3.) Finally, what does "family" mean to you?

SPRIIIING BREAK!!!!!!! Woo hoo!!!! Chpt 11

HI Gang! Blog about ROMANCE--What is your favorite "rom com" and why? Are romantic comedies realistic or not? How is your real life romantic experience/situation/observation different than these often exagerated and fantasy-oriented films can be?

Earth Day!!!

Join us on the lawn for star gazing! Bring the family! Wed  4/13 from 815--930 or so--for extra credit (5 points to attend/up to 15 to write an interpersonal reflection on "fragile earth"---) We'll be up on the lawn near the sociology/Business Sciences/Child development corner. For this week's blog, please post one action you and your friends can take to help celebrate earth day and make a difference for the world! Please mention some chapter vocabulary from chapter 10 on FRIENDSHIP, 3 terms minimum in your post!

Friendships!

Sorry to miss class today gang (3/29) But see you Thursday! Soon we will discuss friendship in class! For this blog, please identify the prototype of a friend to you, that is: Name a person specifically who represents to you what friendship means/should be. Tell us why this person is special. Do Wood's observations on friendship apply to your example?

Let's Talk about Emotional Intelligence: Chpt 7...

Chapter 7 delves into emotions! Cognitive labeling expains how there is pressure to react to emotional situations a certain way. However, this "certain way" the generalized other says we SHOULD react may not fit our own personal and highly individualized emotional experience. Think about this: Is there ever happiness or joy at a funeral? Is there ever fear at a birthday party? What about divorce, graduation, promotions and more life events! I mean think of all the greeting cards you WON'T find at Target! Like: " Sorry you'll see your family even less, but congratulations on the promotion at work!"
 For this post:
1.)  name a highly emotional event or situation we all may confront in life.
2.) State the likely (generalized other's) emotional response and then an unlikely, or out of the ordinary, less expected and more personal response due to unique circumstances. Use emotional intelligence in your response.
3.) Suggest a new greeting card for just such an event! (Be sensitive please).

I will go first: Pregnancy: The expected response is excitement or joy, lots of tearful phone calls. Alternative response: Sadness or fear if this was not planned or fear and anxiety if there are problems with health. I believe society puts alot of pressure on us in the event of pregnancy, to be happy, light hearted and blissful. This is a limiting set of emotional possibilities/in reality, so much more is often going on. I have never seen a Hallmark card that says: "sorry you have to start worrying about saving up for college" for a Mom-to-be!"

STUDY GUIDE Midterm EXAM-aganza! woo-hoo--"Tests are fun!"--Alex

Study this to rule the school on March 17th! Wear green dawg'!