Topic 6.3 Physical Education

Open: The open quadrant represents the things that you know about yourself and the things that others know about you. This includes your behaviour, knowledge, skills and attitudes. It is the parts of us that is obvious and which we freely display, e.g. race, name or height. It includes feelings and all the information you want other people to know.

Hidden: This pane represents things that you know about yourself, but are not willing to share. This part can be viewed as the private spot of our window. It can be confidential information, insecurities or not-so-great experiences, e.g. being silent about suffering from a certain condition.

Blind: The blind pane represents things about you of which you are unaware, but which are known to others. A blind area can include simple information that you do not know or it can involve deep issues that are often difficult for individuals to face directly, but can be seen by others. An example is the captain of the netball team whose teammates told her she snores. She did not think she did, but her friends knew she did. Ask your friends about things that they have said about you that you did not know.

Unknown: The unknown pane contains information, feelings, that are unknown both to us and to others. It could be abilities and potentials that you have not discovered about yourself yet. Being placed in a new situation often reveals information not previously known to the self or others. An example could be that you might be an excellent first year student, but for now you do not know whether you have that ability or not.

Types of relationships

There are different kinds of relationships throughout our lives. In a teenager’s life, there are however, four very basic relationships. These are family, friendship, professional and romantic relationships (Koen, 2014:303).

(a) Family

There are many ways to define a family, but the one thing they usually have in common is that they provide a sense of belonging. It does not matter whether a particular family is a nuclear-, step-, single-parent, or empty-nest family; it usually consists of related people who care about each other.

A family relationship is usually the first relationship into which is entered. Parents and relatives influence the emotional development of children by creating a model that will often be followed throughout life. According to Matthews (2014:1-5), there are at least five Ls that contribute to strong family relationships (see Figure 2.3):