My mum's short and plump with short brown curly hair. She is quiet, honest, shy and polite. My dad's tall and slim with dark hair and green eyes. He's very hardworking, self-confident and generous.
A nuclear family is a family with a mum, a dad and children. An extended family includes the grandparents and other relatives. A single-parent family is a family with only a mum or a dad (not both) and a child (children).