VALUING YOUR FAMILY

No person was born in a sea of humanity. Everyone is born in a family. From birth, a person has his position in the family and a relationship with other family members. A person is a son or daughter to her parents, and a brother or a sister to her siblings. Every position or relationship bears a certain expectations of how that person should behave. This means that everyone has a role in the family.
Our first friends are our parents. From the start of our lives, there begins a very close relationship between us and our parents.
Usually, our parents' love remains in spite of misdeeds and ungratefulness. Our friendship with our parents is the first genuine friendship that all of us experience.
Our parents are our best friends. From them we learn how to face our first problems. From them we get the most of our ideas, habits, attitudes, and emotional reactions. Surely, they have help us learn to conquer our weakness, nourish our strengths and cope up with our needs. Sometimes we wold surely have uttered with fondness,”my dear, dear parents!.”
Living in a family means relating and interacting with its different members. This interaction makes us learn the way of thinking and patterns of behaving of, not only our parents but also to all other members of the family. Unconsciously we develop their values and start thinking and behaving like them. But as we grow older, some of these values may change and we amy find ourselves with some other values that are not the same with the other members of the family.