Jing Pu and Meng Xu discussed their family relationships. We explored the different ways in which single-child families and multi-child families handle the same thing and how this affects personality.

Family relationships can differ significantly between families with one child and families with multiple children due to differences in family dynamics and structures. So we used interviews to explore the differences and similarities between us growing up.

Since only children have no siblings, they do not experience the dynamics, competition, or companionship that come with siblings. In contrast, siblings in families with many children often develop unique relationships with each other. These relationships can include connection, conflict, competition, and shared experiences. Sibling relationships can range from very close and supportive to distant or competitive. So we used the specific example of dividing food to illustrate that the only child can enjoy it alone, and even the food cannot be eaten, resulting in waste. Because birth order is not a factor in a one-child family, the role of the child as the oldest, middle, or youngest does not play any role. However, in families with many children, birth order can significantly affect the child’s personality and function in the family. The oldest child may take on more responsibility, the middle child may ask for help or be the mediator, and the youngest may be doted on or protective. Therefore, when encountering such a situation, characters such as “sister” and “brother” will have a higher status in the family, have a more significant say, and will also be the ones who have the most challenging work.

In terms of character development, only children often develop a strong sense of independence and self-reliance. They must learn to entertain themselves and solve problems independently because they don’t have brothers and sisters who can always accompany or help. While children in families with many children may develop independence, they also learn to rely on and cooperate with siblings. They develop interdependence and the need to work together to solve problems or achieve common goals.

Socially, only children may have more opportunities to interact with adults, from which they can learn communication skills. However, they may need more opportunities to practice social skills with peers in their home environment.
Siblings in families with multiple children provide built-in playmates and social interaction. They learn valuable social skills such as sharing, cooperation, negotiation, and conflict resolution from their interactions with their siblings.

Only children develop empathy and sharing skills through interactions with adults and friends.Siblings in families with multiple children learn to share toys, space, and attention with their siblings, which promotes empathy as they understand the needs and feelings of others.

Only children may develop a strong sense of responsibility and leadership skills because they often take on the adult role in their interactions with their parents. Older siblings in families with many children often take on responsibilities, such as caring for younger siblings or helping with household chores. This can shape their leadership and nursing abilities.

Therefore, although we all have such abilities, the ways and objects of learning differ, and the time to develop and master such skills may also vary. So we are the same, we are different.

• The homepage not being available:
  The root level site becomes corrupted after which browsers get caught in an infinite redirect loop, ultimately crashing the web server (Apache)
• Once restored we are then seeing the a combination of one or all of these conditions:
  • Editing and access prevented to some sites (this is caused by Jetpack plugin crashing)
  • BuddyPress settings being reset to default
  • Pages being posted to the wrong blog – we’ve seen student pages being applied to the root level site
  • Custom theme homepage content being reset – content reverting to the default theme content
  • Debug/error messages printed to screen

As far as we are aware there have been four occurrences of this particular issue:

·         12/02/2019 22:43:24 to 13/02/2019 11:51:24 (13 hours downtime)

·         19/02/2019 01:07:24 to 19/02/2019 08:51:24 (8 hours downtime)

·         19/02/2019 15:01:24 to 19/02/2019 15:16:24 (15 minutes downtime)

·         20/02/2019 13:37:24 to 20/02/2019 13:57:24 (20 minutes downtime)

We have a documented recovery process now so if this occurs again during support hours we can recover fairly quickly.  However, part of this involves restoring content from the old MyBlog server and there is the possibility that content may have been changed since the migration so some content may be lost.

What we’re doing:

·         Anaylzing logs files – we can see in the database logs the query which is causing the corruption but we haven’t yet been able to identify in code what is causing this

·         Increased logging levels – this may have a performance hit though but it will give us more detail on what’s happening (this does mean though that we have to wait for another reoccurrence first)

·         We have created a script which will restart Apache once the loading goes above a certain threshold which we hope will prevent database damage occurring

·         Reviewing all installed plugs-ins as there are some which are installed but not in use

·         Researching availability of diagnostic plug-ins

Next steps:

·         If we can’t find the root cause of the problem in the logs and it persists, we will have to start disabling plugins, but given the sporadic nature of the problem it could take a long time to isolate

·         We’ll then need to start taking daily backups (exports) of the database so we can do a full restore, however, the restoration will lead to the loss of changes

The DL Support team have been asked them to prioritize the investigations over all other work (unless the is an emergency with another service) so it may take us longer than usual to resolve other support tickets.

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