1. Mrs. Goodwin/Family Focus
Understanding Family
Mrs. Goodwin/Family Focus

2. Group Activity/Discussion
Fold your paper in half. Watch the segment and answer the question with your group members. List as many as you can in 5 minutes.
Alike
Different

3. Group Activity/Discussion
Alike
Different

4. Family Vocabulary: Family Family Type Generation Role Nuclear
Single-Parent Family
Stepfamily
Extended Family
Foster Family
Adoptive Family
Childless Family

5. “Kick Me” THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO KICKING!!!!
I will tape a piece of paper to your back.
Get out of your seat and take your vocabulary list with you.
Your job is to find the missing definitions.
When you are finished, return to your seat and sit quietly until everyone has finished.

6. Definitions
Family: A group of people related to one another by blood (birth), marriage or adoption. Family Type: The makeup of a family. Generation: All the people who are born and live about the same time. A human generation is 25 years. Role: A person’s place in a group.

7. What type of family is this
A married man and women and their biological children.
Nuclear

8. What type of family is this?
One parent (mother or father) raising child or children due to death, divorce or abandonment.
Single-Parent

9. What type of family is this?
One or both parents have been married before bringing their children from the previous marriage into the family. They may have children together.
Step/Blended

10. What type of family is this?
2 or 3 generations living under one roof
Multi-Generational/ Extended

11. What type of family is this?
A child that is temporarily placed with a family until the child’s “family problems” are settled.
Foster

12. What type of family is this?
Parents go through the courts to make children legally their own. Adoptions can be very diverse culturally speaking
Adoptive

13. What type of family is this?
A married man and woman without children.
Childless

14. T-Chart
There are several T-Charts around the room. Walk around and list at 2 PROS and CONS for each family type.
Each group will have a different colored marker!

15. Family Roles and Relationships

16. What is your role within your family?
Activity:
-Students who are:
The oldest child go to the corner by the glass door.
The middle child go to the corner by the floor fan.
The youngest child go to the corner by the refrigerators.
The only child go to the corner by the classroom door.
- Within your group discuss your “role” within the family and how your placement (first, middle, last, only child) affects your role.

17. Birth Order
The order in which children are born into a family influences the development of the children.
Oldest children bear the burden of the parents’ heaviest expectations and also of the parents’ inexperience in raising children.
Second or third children are generally treated in a more relaxed way by the parents.
Youngest children often have a more difficult time in making the transition to adulthood.

18. Oldest Child Usually set up as an example to the other children.
Treated more like an adult by his/her parents.
A high achiever.
Given and accepts more responsibility than the other children.
Usually college-bound.
Independent.
Affectionate.

19. Middle Child May work extra-hard to get recognition.
Is usually a peacemaker.
Is somewhat average in schoolwork, but is an all- around good student.
Is usually a calm, even-tempered adult.

20. Youngest Child Gets a lot of attention, along with a lot of bossing.
May be spoiled.
Usually matures quickly.
May be undisciplined and irresponsible.
Is easy-going about school.
Likes to associate with someone who takes charge of situations.

21. Sibling Rivalry
Competition among children of the same family for their parents’ affections or for dominance. It can occur at any age, even into adult life. Next to the parent-child relationship, the sibling relationship is probably the strongest.

22. The Family Life Cycle

23. Beginning Stage
Newly married couple without children

24. Parenting Stage
Children are born and parents care for their needs.

25. Launching Stage
Teens become independent and leave home

26. Senior Stage
Parents adjust to being a couple again and enjoy more leisure activities or change careers.

27. TV/Movie Family Wheel Activity:
Choose a television family to use with this project.
Divide your wheel into 8 sections. Individually number the edge sections of the plate #1 and ending #8.

28. TV/Movie Family Wheel Project
Section #1 – Family Structure Album (NOTE: This is just a TITLE section.)
Section #2 – Family Name & Type
EX: The Show: My Wife & Kids
Family Type: Nuclear Family
Section #3 - Members
Names of each member.
Section #4 - Members’ roles
What they do within the family (ex. Doctor, Lawyer, Oldest Child, etc.)
Section #5 - Family Life Cycle Stage - explain
Section #6 - Family’s Challenges – at least 2 challenges
Section #7 - Family’s Advantages – at least 2 advantages
Section #8 - Compare this family to your family –
(At least 2 likes and 2 differences)

29. TV/Movie Family Wheel Project TV/Movie Family Wheel Project
Section #1 – Family Structure Album
(This is a TITLE section.)
Section #2 – Family Name & Type
EX: The Show: My Wife & Kids
Family Type: Nuclear Family
Section #3 - Members
Names of each member
Section #4 - Members’ roles
What they do within the family
(ex. Doctor, Lawyer, Oldest Child etc.)
Section #5 - Family Life Cycle Stage - explain
Section #6 - Family’s Challenges – at least 2
Section #7 - Family’s Advantages – at least 2
Section #8 - Compare this family to your family –
(At least 2 likes and 2 differences)
Section #1 – Family Structure Album
(This is a TITLE section.)
Section #2 – Family Name & Type
EX: The Show: My Wife & Kids
Family Type: Nuclear Family
Section #3 - Members
Names of each member
Section #4 - Members’ roles
What they do within the family
(ex. Doctor, Lawyer, Oldest Child, etc.)
Section #5 - Family Life Cycle Stage - explain
Section #6 - Family’s Challenges – at least 2
Section #7 - Family’s Advantages – at least 2
Section #8 - Compare this family to your family –
(At least 2 likes and 2 differences)