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What Family Means to Me

Caroline Behne from Germany writes about how important her family is to her.

 

        In a family you can talk about anything. You can tell them everything because they are like your best friends. You have fun with your family no matter what you do.Even if there is a fight or a misunderstanding, you have to tolerate each person because when you fight with someone, you notice now much you miss that person and how much you love that person. You just can't live without that person.

           If you go shopping with your mother, you see her just like a friend. Or if you go and have lunch with your father, he is also a friend of yours. Or, if you do something with your brothers, they are also like your friends.

           I think it is very important that you have a family because you are learning so many things. You learn to live with other people, you learn to share things, and you learn to show consideration for someone. I just can't live without my family because I would miss them so much. I would even miss the mistakes they make.

 

 

How I See a Family

Stella Tupinamba from Brazil writes about the closeness of families in her country.

 

           Family is where you can find your best and closest friends. Members of a family take care of each other. They are always ready to help even if they have to change their personal plans.

        Parents change their own plans all the time to stay with their children when the children need them. Sometimes they give up their dreams to realize the dreams of their kids.

           Families don't have to be necessarily a father, a mother and kids. Today we have different kinds of families. We have single parents, stepfathers or stepmothers, half brothers and sisters, or families without kids.

           What is important is if they support and love each other before anything else. It's the way we see a family in Brazil. My grandmother say that the family must support our members even when they make mistakes.

 

 

A Family Means Love

María E. Huerta from Mexico feels the most important element of a family is love.

 

          From my standpoint, I think a family is a group of persons whose members love and try to help each other. One of the characteristics of this group is the motivation to help by thinking of the benefits to members.

         I think a traditional family is formed by a father who is the wage earner, a mother who is the housewife, and brothers and sisters. The role of each member is very important because they influence the development and behavior of the children who live inside the family.

        The main factor for maintaining a family is love, but it's also important to be conscious that this feeling is pure. Other factors that help to keep families together are respect and trust. Everyone in the family must show respect to the other members because nobody is more important than the others.

        Some people think that only the parents deserve respect, but I consider that this is not true. If the kids do not trust their parents, the parents won't be able to teach them all the experience they have. In brief, I think that a family is a group of people united not only by blood, but also by LOVE.

 

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