Features of Other Families

I have seen many family’s I see in my everyday life that I look up to, while there are many families who I don’t look up to or don’t aspire to have their characteristics. When judging these families per say, we are all judging these families relative to our own. A specific family, which I do look up to and hope to find similar characteristics in my future family, is my auntie and uncles family. They are so close to their children, they take every second out of their day to spend quality time with them, are always there to listen among many other things. Personally, in my family I had wished that I could have spent more quality time and I think this is why I look up to their family. The families which I look down upon are families which the parents are more concerned about their own lives than their children’s. There is a family I am close to in Whitecourt that go bars every weekend and the child is constantly left at home with a babysitter. When judging other families I often have the tendency to compare and contrast their family lives to my own.

As a teacher, I need to be more open to the ideas of different family dynamics. I can’t look down on a family because it is “lesser” to mine. I have to work with the parents for my students to gain the most out of their education. I have to respect the decisions their family’s make and ensure my teaching is still to the best of my ability, regardless of my thoughts and judgements.