FAMILY COMMUNICATION

For this particular assignment I chose to watch a show that I’ve never seen before it is called “BLUE BLOODS” my husband apparently records this show and enjoys watching each episode. He told me that this is a drama show about the New York Police Department and a majority of the New York Police officers are siblings and the Chief of Police is literally the biological father. He told me it is a key component to the story.

            Based on the way the characters in the story were communicating as (I watched the story in silence)

I felt each person in the story were friends. I saw mutual communication happening in the story. I assumed each character had a mutual relationship. I only saw towards the end of the episode a male and female share a hug and kissing each other. I thought maybe a few characters that were in the story were not in a relationship and were angry with each other. It seemed as if they were arguing because their mouths were wide open as they talked. And there eyebrows were down and scrunched up. I saw a few males quickly walk into a room and storm out. I also saw several characters take a deep breath after talking with one another.

 I made a few assumptions while watching the episode in silence. I assumed there was a relationship between this woman and man because this woman kept talking to this man who was sitting in an office chair and that maybe they had a relationship and now going through a divorce I felt she might have been an ex-wife because there was another gentleman in the room with glasses that I assumed to be a lawyer.

The next assumption was of a man and woman working with each other as friends but it seemed the man wanted to date this woman (police officer) because he smiled each time he spoke to her and she smiled talking to him also. Later in the episode they met each other at a bar

The last assumption was a relationship between a different man and woman because the man ended up saving her at the end because the suspect held up a hostage situation in the courtroom and by the look on his face getting down on his knees looking and pleading to the suspect to let her go was heartfelt.

Now watching the episode with sound

            Each of my assumptions was stomped as I watched the episode with sound. With the first assumption of the man sitting in the office chair having a relationship with the woman standing at the office door and the man with glasses being a lawyer was almost right. The man with glasses was a lawyer but not a divorce lawyer he was a representative of discussing information between the NYPD and the media. The woman at the door was his office assistant just giving her opinion on the situation.

The second assumption about the man wanting to date the police woman was correct. I however saw that the relationship will stay mutual because the man and woman are “partners in the police force” and they didn’t express any physical affection towards each other.

And the last assumption about the man having feelings for the woman being held hostage by the suspect was stomped because they were not husband and wife they were brother and sister. The man pleaded for the suspect to let her go because they were family. That moment surprised me and I should have took into consideration what my husband said at the beginning that the man sitting in the office chair is the chief of police. I thought only his sons were part of the police department. Not knowing that his daughter was also a lawyer working in the city.

            Overall I believe my assumptions would have been more correct if I had been watching and learning about the show well. I learned communication between people is difficult to read especially when the relationship between each character is not known. It helps me to believe when working with children and families the importance of building not only personal relationships with the children and each child but meaningful relationships in which to understand each child and families situation a little better. This way early childhood professionals are displaying concern and flexibility to meet the need of the family.