TMA01 The word ‘carer’ means someone who looks after a friend, relative or neighbour who needs support because of their sickness, age or disability. Carers come from all backgrounds and can be any age. Caring can be rewarding, but it can be difficult too (Directgov 2006) I will be looking into family care, and the difficulties and rewards it brings looking after a family member. I have been reading about a case study in unit 1 about Ann and her family who I will be using throughout as a reference. Ann looks after her father Angus who is 79 and has Parkinson’s disease, Ann lives with her father along with her husband Bob and daughter Zoe.
I guess you can say her role in life is to be happy, live comfortably financially and do everything she can to make her family comfortable and happy. When it came to asking my boss Kevin, his response I found to be quite shocking. He said his expectations and strategies for managing a family were completely what he expected. He went to college, he has a great job, he comes home, still does some work and in that extra time, he will spend time with his kids and his wife. Between the two responses, I don’t really see a difference in their answers.
She is the most loving, caring, accepting, and hilarious person I have ever met because of that place and those people. She found people to support her through her pain, to help her raise us. My siblings and I didn’t need a father after that, we had a whole church full of fathers, and extra mothers, and even more brothers and sisters. After my father sobered up and begged to be part of our lives again, we added one more man to the pile of fathers that we had. We had great men in our lives to help my mother guide us, and I see now how courageous my father was to come back and attempt to be a father.
In my older life, and particularly within my job role, this has taught me that I can be emphatic and sympathetic towards people. I have always been interested in history, including my own family history. When I was young, I would sit for hours on end listening to grandmas stories of her own background and where she came from. This has given me a sense of my own self and has taught me how to be a good listener with the people that I care for in my working life. My parents always showed great dignity and respect for other people, their own parents, aunts, and uncles.
Now my only struggle is to help and provide for my family and make them proud. My parents are getting older and so am I, I know soon I will have to leave the nest and eventually go build my own so I try to enjoy them as much as I can because I know this is part of the cycle of life. I will always have them in my mind and value the things they did for me and thought me. My family will always come first and I know if they ever needed me I will be there for them the same way they were there for me all my life. I love them to death and I know the strengths and knowledge they gave me will forever be in
I was too young to remember exact details of certain events, but I could always remember being really close to my big sister. We are two years apart and she is my best friend. Growing up she was the only person that was consistantly in my life so she was literally the only person I would talk to. Twenty years later I am a lot more outspoken and open with others but my big sister is still the first and sometimes the only person I will turn to when I am going through something in my life. Over the years I have began to be the same way with the rest of my family, especially my mother.
My family is not quite like either of the families in the film, but it is does have more similarities to Tre’s family. The family structure within my home consists of; my parents who are still married and living together, my sister, and myself, I also have a brother who is married and lives on his own. My parents agree on most things when it comes to the raising of their children. My mother is stronger on the school and academics aspect while my father is more easygoing, but regardless, both parents want what is best for their
Dobson is “Rules without relationships lead to rebellion.” (Dobson, 217). I am a living witness of this quote and how my parents raised me personally. I grew up in a household without my father where my mother and grandmother played the role of father and mother. However, my mother was not the parent figure I clung to always, but more so my grandmother. My grandmother and I had a great relationship where I could tell her anything, we could go shopping or out to eat together.
Everyone should have that one place they like to visit often and is has a great deal of meaning for them whenever they go there. Well, when you grow up in a family with a single mother and three siblings, you do not always get the opportunity much traveling or visit to many place too often. When extra money or saving money had a hard thing to come by you do not get out much. My mother was a single young mother and worked extremely hard to make sure my brothers and I had everything we needed. We only saw things we wanted once in a while.
I feel that my close friends and my girlfriend, Candice, are considered my family. I have created such close bonds with a few of my friends that I can consider them my family. These are the people who would help me out when I’m in need, just as one of my “blood” relatives would. There have been many situations that I have put myself into that no ordinary person would help me out