The Satterwhite Single Parent Family

Shanella volunteers at the New Hope Community Center tutoring children with their homework. Ms. Satterwhite has always participated with Shanella in all of her extracurricular activities. She has managed to balance life and work in order to meet the needs of her daughter.

Both mother and daughter work very hard at being self sufficient economically. Ms. Satterwhite works two jobs and over the past ten years has been saving and preparing for Shanella’s college education. She has encouraged Shanella to follow her dreams and further her education. Shanella will enter a college next year where she can focus on art and fashion design. Shanella currently serves as an art honor student at Southeast Raleigh High School and her number one fan continues to be her mother.

The Wanda S. Satterwhite Family is a single parent family. Wanda Satterwhite is a very supportive mother and loving parent. She has lived with the difficulties of the disease polio her entire life. She never allowed her disease to hinder the way she brought up her daughter, Shanella, and despite her illness Ms. Satterwhite graduated from Miller Business College. 

Ms. Satterwhite is a leading community mother in the Southgate community. She encourages the children living in her area to stay in school, work hard and always give their very best. She has set up her home to be one of comfort and encouragement. Ms. Satterwhite’s influence on Shanella encourages the senior from Southeast Raleigh High School to attend school daily, walking a mile to get there.

 

The following story has been jumbled up. There should be 3 paragraphs, each of which has a topic sentence and some other sentences. The topic sentences are given below. Decide which other sentences (a-i) belong to each paragraph. Then put the sentences in order.

The Nears Blended Family

Paragraph1

The Irene and Ken Nears Family is an exemplary model of the “blended family”.

_______ _________     ________

 

Paragraph2

Irene also returned to school, working and attending college to receive a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from Shaw University.

___________               _____________       __________

 

Paragraph3

Ken is employed at Family Youth Incorporated and is pursuing a doctoral degree at North Carolina State University in Guidance Education.

    ___________           _____________       ____________

 

c Irene and Ken brought to this union daughters, Sara and Kate, from their previous marriages.

a Having lost her first husband Irene became a single mother of her biological daughter, Sara, and adopted Meredith.

e She gave her a stable, loving and secure family.

f   When Irene married Ken, he brought with him another teenage daughter, Kate.

b  Through their remarkable strength of character, devotion and wise parenting, the Nears have created a personal habitat of shared respect and deep connections.

i   Irene and Ken are diligent to identify and secure resources that lead to greater economic, health, employment and educational opportunities for family members.

h  Both Irene and Ken live economically and creatively to prepare for their daughters’ future education and their own professional development.

g  Their eldest daughters Meredith and Sara have begun their first year at Fayetteville State University and Peace College, respectively, and the youngest daughter, Kate, is a student at Sanderson High School.

d  The key to success in the Nears family is a happy and caring home atmosphere.

 

 

Read the textand tick how you feel about your family.                                

TIME TOGETHER

 

Strong families recognize that there are benefits and pleasures to be gained from time and activities together. By spending pleasant time together, families build a reserve of good feelings and are able to cope with personal and family crisis more effectively.

Family unity encourages families to create daily routines as well as special traditions and celebrations which affirm members, connect them to their family roots, and add fun to ordinary family events. What families do together does not matter as much as that they do something together that is mutually planned and enjoyable. Spontaneity, humor, wit, and fun are goals to work toward.

Family time does not come easily. The challenge is to manage and prioritize your time so that family time is possible. It:

· helps everyone to feel that they are important

· helps build family pride

· keeps the line of communication open between family members

· instills an appreciation of family

· helps family members prioritize and value family time

· can foster creativity and provide a fun-filled experience.

A quality that constantly appears in strong families is a feeling that they can depend on each other in “good” times and “bad” times. The sense of knowing that someone is always there for you helps individuals develop a well balanced self-esteem and a sense of individual worth. The key to success in building family unity is planning, perseverance, and flexibility. Your relationship with the members of your family is the foundation upon with your family is built. The stronger the foundation is, the more strength you can draw from it.

 

In Our Family

_____    We have a number of common interests.

_____    We like to have fun together.

_____    We feel comfortable with each other.

_____    We like to give each other a chance to do new things.

_____    We enjoy hearing our grandparents' stories about the past.

_____    We enjoy simple, inexpensive family activities.

_____    We like to have a place we call 'home.'

_____    We feel strongly connected to each other.

_____    Hanging out together builds strong relationships.

_____    We have lots of good times together.

_____    We often laugh with each other.

_____    Observing family rituals and customs is important to us.

_____    We enjoy sharing our memories with each other.

_____    We enjoy having unplanned, spontaneous activities together.

_____    All things considered, we have adequate time for each other, and we enjoy the time we share together.

 

Prove your feelings with the examples. Write three sentences describing your family time together.

Our family spends time together doing these things:

1. ________________________________________________________________

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2. ________________________________________________________________

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3. ________________________________________________________________

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