Genograms

I thought this genogram assignment would be easy considering I only have four people in my family. However, when he said we had to do all of our aunts and cousins I freaked out. I have 109 cousins on just my moms side! I have about 15 on my dads side. How am I going to fit that on a poster board? I really love being in a family that big though. We are all really close which is rare, and that means a lot to me. I cannot wait to see how my genogram turns out. I think it will be good to look at my whole family and see all of our connections. It will be weird to see what my role is in the family and how we all function as a whole. It will tell me a lot about my family. I hope that I learn some things that I maybe didn't know before. There is a lot of stuff in my family, however, probably nothing as weird as some of the examples that we talked about in class. Those families were very complicated. I guess that makes their genograms more interesting. In the future I think this assignment will help me out a lot. Working with famililies could get very frustrating if you don't know anything about them. Genograms will really help a lot to know their background, and it will be a good way for them to understand their family better and maybe learn some things they didn't know about their own family. Hopefully, their family wont be as big as mine is!