1. My family, your family Families and Relationships Parents and Children
Generation Gap
Weddings and Marriages

2. Define these types of families and comment upon them.
Immediate family
Single parenting
Extended family
Adoption
Nuclear family
Gay marriage
Step family
Living together
Blended family
Randomly call on students and ask them to define and then briefly comment upon each subtopic.
Time required: 5 to 7 minutes

3. Briefly answer these questions.
What is the typical size of a family in the U.S.? U.K.? Canada? Australia? India? Ireland? South Africa?
What is the typical Slovenian family size? Albanian? Austrian? Bosnian? Croatian? Italian? Hungarian? Macedonian? Montenegrin? Serbian?
Has family size in general changed over the last 100 years? Why?
Where do families generally live in each of these countries?

4. BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER
How do you get on with your parents?
Describe your relationship with your siblings?
What do you argue about with your parents and siblings?
Describe your favorite childhood memory.
Who makes the decisions in your family?

5. Comment Favoritism Golden girl Apple of his mother’s eye
Preferential treatment
What is the oldest story about sibling rivalry that you can think of?
Where does sibling rivalry stem from?
When can childhood jealousy raise its ugly head again?

6. Respond How do parents working long hours affect family life?
How do families cope with both parents working?
What are the differences in the upbringing of boys and girls?
How do you maintain good relationships?
How do you resolve conflicts and differences?
Latchkey kid

7. Rules, rules, rules Chores Clothes Curfew Going out Hairstyles
Internet usage
Parties
Meals
Music
School
Smoking
Television
What rules do you have in your family regarding these issues?
Who makes the rules?
What are the consequences if you break them?

8. More Terms to Know Adulthood Child custody Child support Family tree
Loved ones
Sibling rivalry
Upbringing
Lying
Betrayal
Sharing problems
Keeping each other’s secrets
Giving advice
Borrowing each other’s clothes
Students should translate these terms into Slovene.

9. How much do you agree or disagree?
A nuclear family is an outdated concept.
All you need for a relationship to work is love.
After divorce it is impossible to maintain good relations in the family.
What is the difference between “good relations” and “good relationships?”

10. The Children Act and Young People (Scotland) Act of 2014
Based upon British law (The Children Act of 1989)
Parental responsibility
Maintain personal relations and direct contact on a regular basis
Gives 16 year olds the right to stay in care until age 21
Extends support for young people leaving care up to age 26
Free early learning and childcare
Free school lunches
GIRFEC
“This Government’s vision for children and young people is clear: We want Scotland to be the best place in the world for them to grow up. A place where rights are respected and where children can access all the opportunities and support they need, when they need it.”

11. Comment.
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in it’s own way.”
“If you look for perfection, you will never be content.”
-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

12. Dear Abby/Agony Aunt