In class today, our teacher brought up multi-generational patterns found in families. He gave an example of how there's a chain from his father up the line where the father was uninvolved or disengaged with their children and how the second oldest child/son took over the fatherly example in the family because something happened to the first child/son and the father was absent a lot, if not always. He noticed that his father was probably always working because his father was the same way and that was what he was used to.
We tend to follow the trend of our parents. It's not intentional, but that's what we were exposed to and observed growing up. They are what are familiar to us, and familiar comes from family. Some trends may be good and some may be bad. We need to make sure that we make a conscious effort to be different when we catch ourselves with the bad trends we may have gotten from our family and use only the good on our spouse and children.
Hey its Emily your TA again:) I loved the way Brother Williams explains the familial trends he has witnessed in his own family. Why do you think trends are so prevalent in families? You mentioned the importance of making a "conscious effort" when seeking to change potentially negative trends. Why is it so important to change negative trends when some of them have been seen for generations?
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