As with writing my personal essay, I found it extremely hard. After the first paragrah, I really did not have anything else to say about my family because I defined the "traditional" family as it pertained to my family. So, I decided to compare and contrast my family with sitcom families and learned a great deal about my family as well as gaining insight into the sitcom family. As I was reading my fellow classmates' papers, I learned that as the family is concerned, a lot of us had similar upbringings.