Some information that I found interesting from this weeks discussion is as follows:

Men learn better being shoulder to shoulder working side by side.
Women learn better and communicate face to face.

We learn more from our children than we do from our parents

A question that we answered in class was:
What are you going to do as a result of the information you have?

There are many things that we have learned in this class, but the one thing that concerns me the most is the fact that I grew up with my father always being at home, because we had a family farm. I know with my husbands degree that he will be working outside of the home and be gone for the majority of the day. This is something that I have never really been exposed to and something that concerns me a little as I will be raising my children with a lot less influence of their father than I had. I know that I will need to be very careful to always plan family time together, even, and especially when life gets very busy. I want work not to be a chore, but something that we all can do together and learn to grow and understand each other better because of it. This class has been a great opportunity for me to take what I have been concerned about and find solutions for the problem. We emphasized in class how important it is for us not to use work as punishments, and now looking back on my childhood I can see that my mother was very careful to use alternate ways to punish her child. For example she would have us be punished by having to sit alone and having nothing to do. In a way I have found this to be a very valuable skill that I have gained because of it. I am always striving to accomplish everything that I can because do not enjoy doing nothing. I find work to be fun and very rewarding.