92. Core and Extension

Class Teaching (Family Management, Paper III – Core and Extended Family)

Teacher: “Our core family consists of our spouse and children. Parents are often a part of it, but not always.

“Uncles, aunts, cousins etc. form the extended family.

“Today we will discuss which information about your personal life you might share with your extended family members and which are better kept within the confines of the core family.”

On the board

	Extended Family	Core Family
Education	Talk about your qualifications, not percentages	Discuss your actual marks, let them know
Financial status	Say you are poor. Then you can give cheap gifts and will not have to help the poor cousin.	Say you are reach to stop the comparison with neighbour, cousin etc.
Availability	Say office does not allow leaves. This means you have a responsible job.	Say you are always available for your darling spouse.
Political view	Go with the flow.	Read newspapers and deliver lectures to unwilling audience about your political analyses
Future plans	Only the parts where you are going abroad	Don’t bother. They will tell you your ideal future plan a hundred times anyway.
Cooking skills	Boast, because you are only showing photos.	Remember, love and affection cannot make inedible edible.
Having a boyfriend / girlfriend / lover	Tell them or else they will think you are no good	Tell them only when it is necessary, they will always disapprove. If you are already married, try not to make it necessary.