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Family Roles and Rules

This week we discuss family roles and rules and from what I learned in class this is family roles are a set of values and responsibilities that some accept or feel. Someone else should want to accept and learn something about family rules which normally have two sets of rules and some of these rules can cause harmony or stress which sometimes family members are aware of them. I came from a very closed family whereby there are a lot of roles and laws and some of these roles and rules are, when I was a child, my dad and my mom play a role in providing the needs of the family and we as children our duty is sweeping the compound, fetching water to the house to fill containers, going on an earn when needed, washing dishes and setting up a table for a dinner. My dad goes to work each morning to look for our daily bread my mother has a shop that sells provision items so therefore when we were kids my mother always wake up early and prepare for us to go to school before she will go to her shop. My dad and mom have set up rules for us at home and as a closed home being a fence, we the children have been asked not to go out or play with our neighbors there are sometimes you will be at home and be hearing some interesting things going on outside but you cannot go out to see and most of our time we spend is either from house to school and from school to house or from home to church. We have been instructed by my parents not to accept a gift from anyone or eat from our neighbor’s house. Sometimes when we don’t go to school on weekends we are always at home and my dad always says that there is a lot to learn at home than going outside. And as part of the rules., we all retire to bed latest by 10pm and we all wake by 5 am to do our morning devotion I quite remember there was a time both parents went to work and my mom ask us to stay with our neighbors till they come back and that day we have been served with food by our neighbors but I gave them an excuse that am full but my kid's sisters who are 8 years old said my mom and dad said we should not eat in your house, in fact, it was an embarrassment to me. And the reason why my mom and dad gives all these rules not to eat from outside our home nor accept gift from someone or even not to go to play with friends was, we live in a society whereby there is no trust among each and everyone and my parent think is we will either eat food poison or someone will give you a sickness in a form of a gift so given us this rules set as protection to us. However, there are some wicked people living in the community and some can be murders, some can be witches and wizards, and some are full of haters you don’t know whom to trust and to avoid any trouble you must strive to keep to the rules from your parents. When I was a child I taught my parents were punishing us for keeping us at home and sometimes I will ask my dad to tell me the reason why they don’t want us to go out to play with our neighbors and my dad will tell me my son am your father what I will sit and see from afar of if you as a child stand on the high mountain top you will not see a tip of it at first I do not understand my parents but as growing up I now understand what they mean to us. In addition, the important things that I learned about family roles and rules are it organizes a family to become one, it brings peace and order to a family, and also, it serves as unity and protection to the family.