How Relationships Work

How relationships Work:

- Was developed by social scientists.
- Explains the give and take in relationships.
- Takes an economic approach-relationships have costs and benifits.
- Benifits of being in the relationship must equal or outweigh costs of the relationship.
- High cost for someone else's benefit equals being exploited.

Relationships:                                   Cost:

- Pleasure in spending time together.                                - Time spent together instead of elsewhere.

- Social and emotional support recieved.                           - Emotional ans social support given.

- Intelectual growth through discussion.                             - Dissapointments and hurt feelings.

- Excitement  of new activites.                                           - Mentl strain of dissagreements.

Stand By Me

Last week in my Family Studies 12 class we watched a movue called "Stand By Me". It was about these four troubles little boys areound the age of 12. They all trave to go see a dead body that they heard about and they all go by foot. they learn new thigs about eachothr and go through manny different difficulties as they travel. Each boy has problems going in their houses and they try to ignore it but it it very hard for them to do so. They come acrosss bullies, leeches, fights, dogs, trains, and  a dead body. this movie is a good way to show how friends always stick together no matter what happens.

Types of friendship

There are four types of friendship: acuainteances, proximity, selected, and significant.

 Acquaintances:People who you know because they participate in the same activities as you do. Example, people you see in school, people you meet at parties. People who you have brief conversations with.

Proximity: Make shared activities more anjoyable but, when the term ends or ou change jobs, you no longer have an activity in common, the relationship will probably not last.

Selected: based on shared interests and some affection or concern for eachother. You share your opinions with your selected frends and exchange stories about your lives  as you get to know eachother better.

Significant: Spending many hours on hours on the phone talking, sharing your inner thoughts and feelings in extended conversations is a sign that the friendship has become a signifiacant relationship in your life. This sharing created empathy.

Real Care Baby Project

    For two days I had to take care of a RealCare Baby (it is a doll). It is almost lifelike and it cries and makes feeding noises like a real baby would. It cries when it is hungry, when it needs a diaper change, and when it needs to be  burped. This project taught me what it is like to have a real baby and i realized how difficult it is and how to take care of a baby. The baby can start crying at anytime and it will cry if its head goes back (that is to preven Shaken Baby Syndrome). I had it for two whole days and at woke up many times in the middle of the night. It cried at 3:00am until 4:00. It also cried from 6:00 untill 6:30. Thhis project taught me how difficult it is to take care of a child and how much respionsibility it takes. I recieved 100% on this assignment therefore i am aweosme at taking care of a Real Care Baby doll :). It was a great and educational experience fore me and i recomend others to try it.


                               

Juno

  We watched the movie Juno to learn about more differant senarios about teen pregnacy. We learned that it is very hard to handle a baby and it takes a lot of work. Also, how it can turn ur world upsidedown. Juno showed us what pregnant women go trough and all of their hardships.

                                                      

A Baby's Behaviour

Some Babies have Colic disease. That is when they cry and whine constantly. The only person that can comfort them is their parent, usually the mother. They cry when they need a diaper change, when they need to be burped, when they need to be fed, etc. These babies with colic diaease cry for no apparent reason and scientists have not figured out what causes babies to act this way.

How much it costs to raise a child

Today in my family studies 12 class i learned hoe expensive it is to raise a child. The older they grow, the more expensive it gets. This is because when they get older, they want more stuff, for example, name brand clothes. 


1 year old --> $10,220
5 year old --> $10,500
12 year old--> $10,990
15 year old--> $11,290


The average amount of a middle class family to raise a child ( to 18 ) is:
$190,980