Family Genogram

As we were talking about the project in class today, I started thinking about what my family's genogram. At first, I was thinking, "Mine is going to be so simple. There might be a lot of us, but we aren't complicated at all." After I started to sketch it out in my notebook, it wasn't as easy as I thought. There were dashed lines, stepchildren, boxes with Xs, shaded boxes.

It made me realize that part of the reason I thought it was going to be so easy is because for the most part, we get along well and are have enough of the qualities that strong families have like we talked about the other day. That reminded me that when working with families, the important part isn't really how neat or "simple" there family structure appears, but how they are able to communicate and work together despite whatever issues arise. Being a strong family is much more important than having a clean genogram.