Family Management across the Decades
Module 02 Reflection – Family Management across the Decades
As an individual in college, you have resources that you use to sustain your life. For example, you likely have housing, food, clothes, household furnishings, a vehicle, income from a job or financial aid, and technology tools.
In a 1-2 page reflection paper discuss how you currently assess needs and manage resources as an individual (if you live by yourself) or within your immediate family (if you live in a family). Then compare your approach with how your parents or grandparents managed their resources in the past. Be sure to address the following:
- Provide a description of the resources you or your family have.
- Describe how you or your family determine what the needs are and how they are prioritized; include some current needs as an example.
- Identify who in your family is responsible for the resources and how they are managed.
- Discuss how your parents or grandparents managed their resources and compare to how you manage resources today. How have some things changed? Have some things stayed the same? Here is a good place to include examples of resources you have today that your parents or grandparents did not have in the past.
- Discuss how your current resource management practice and history of your parents or grandparent in this area might influence how you assist other families to manage their resources.
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Module 02 Assignment – Family Goal Setting Process
Time for a quick journey into your past. Think back to a time when your family (or a family you know) set a special goal for the year (or you can use a goal for this current year). In a 1-2 page paper, answer the following questions about the family goal. Using complete sentences, write one short paragraph per question.
- What is the special family goal for the year?
- Why do you think this has become the special family goal for the year?
- Why do you think family members are motivated to reach this goal?
- On a scale of 1 to 10, how intensely does each family member seem to desire this goal? If there are differences in motivation, how do you explain this?
- In your mind, what is one value behind this family goal? What type of value would you say this is and why? (Refer to this module’s Lesson Content).
- How do other family goals relate to this main family goal? Include an example.
- What resources are needed in order to reach this family goal?
- Approximately how long will it take for the family to obtain this goal?
- What suggestions can you, as an education professional, provide the family about reaching the family goal?
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