Family – maturitné témy

Thema 1: FAMILY

Family is a group of people, consisting of one or two parents and their children. Living in the family is very importatnt for every human being. Our patents take care of us from our births until we grow up. To family include our grandparents, auts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews and another members too.

Our family supports us when we need it. They are with us in all the most important moments of our lives. Family makes home. At home we learn all the skills that we need for life: how to get on with people, how to be tolerant, selfdisciplined, polite and helpful.

As members of family we have different relationships with the people we live with. The people closest to us are our parents. They care of our health, problems, pains. The relationship with our parents is special: we love them, but we have to respect and obey them as they are risponsible for our upbringing.

However, much closer to us are our siblings. They are from the same generation, share similar hobbies and sometimes have the same opinions. Then there is relationship with our grandparents. It´s similar to relationship with our parents, but there is one difference – they are much older than us, so we have to respect them so much.

Family members get together on special occasions: at weddings, graduation ceremonies, birthdays or funerals. This family gathering are important for many members of family, because there they can see their whole family and have the chance to talk to people who they not see very often.

Being a member of family means many duties, mainly houseworks. Daughters often help to their mothers in the kitchen, or in the garden, sons usually help to their fathers with the household repairs.

Usually, when the children become teenagers, their parents start to have problems with them. Teenagers want to spend more time with their friends and they prefer making their own decisions.

They complain that their parents don´t understand them. Teenagers are sometimes rude and lazy. It depends mainly on their feelings, but on brining up too. This problems between teenagers and their parents are because of generation gap. They should talk to each other and try to find solutions together.

Many children grow up in broken families. Sometimes they live in a single-parent family if one parent die or if parents are divorced. Many children live with stepparents...