This week I really liked the class discussions and the role playing. When we did the role playing it really helped me understand more fully the concepts of theories and why families react in some ways in certain situations. Theories really make it easier to understand why families are the way they are. As we go through the class, I think that I will be able to apply the theories to my own family and to what we are studying. In one of our readings this week I came across the term paradigm shift. I thought this was really interesting and totally fit my perspective. I am taking a whole new look on things in this class. The discussions in class really help me to understand what is going on. I like how the discussions are not totally set but are guidelines of things we should touch on. Another thing that really interested me was learning about boundaries. As I tried to draw out my family and different boundaries we have I found it very confusing because there are so many connections and clusters. I never realized what kind of groups we had in my family till I tried drawing it out. It is amazing how many groups we can be put into when it is only one family.