Amy Summerville Regrets

In the article, “Why You Shouldn’t Pay Children for Grades,” Amy McCready details her argument against children receiving money as a reward for good grades. Her main point is expressed in her article as a sentence: “But no matter how much we want it to, money can’t buy smarts, motivation, or school success.” She is expressing her idea that paying kids will not genuinely help them. Within the article, McCready expresses her dislike of parents using payment to attempt to encourage student achievement. Her points include her belief that paying children won’t maintain high grades because kids lose interest and excitement over time. She also believes that payment for grades creates a negative attitude within the children and invoke a sense of entitlement.

Amy Chua is obviously very opinionated. There is a lot of controversy surrounding her memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, in which she was very harsh towards her daughters and made it clear that her parenting methods were better than those of a Western parent. There is no manual on parenting, but how do we know when we as parents cross the line between being concerned for our child’s future and being overbearing? Being a parent myself, I know firsthand that it gets frustrating and sometimes, that inner control can be lost. Amy demonstrated this challenge plenty of times. I acknowledge that Amy may have thought she was motivating her children to be strong, successful women but I don’t think she

I’m learning that reflecting on the past is something very difficult to do emotionally. Seeing things that I have done, or felt in the past works up my emotions because I feel regret, loss, and even happiness. The importance of this lesson may be greater to me than others. Dealing with anxiety, I’ve learned

Counterfactual thinking is the cognitive process in which individuals can simulate alternative realities, to think about how things could have turned out differently, with statements such as ‘what if’ and ‘if only’. Counterfactuals can be either upward, in which alternative realities are improved, or downward, in which alternative realities are worsened. Reflecting on previous outcomes can make individuals experience regret and this review will focus on the effects of counterfactual thinking and feelings of regret, which has been referred to as a ‘counterfactual emotion’.

After watching both TED Talks videos, I noticed that both Amy Purdy and Diana Nyad demonstrated many examples of both positive and negative leadership styles. One instance of this which Amy Purdy elaborates on, is the fact that true leaders view obstacles and shortcomings as opportunities for further growth rather than permitting oneself to be consumed by them. This is so as Purdy cites the instance of losing her legs, which inspired her to continue pursuing her passion for snowboarding by competing as a Paralympian and not letting her disability prevent her from following her aspirations. Purdy elaborates on this by stating that challenges and setbacks “can only do two things: one, stop us in our tracks or two, force us to get creative.” (Purdy,

people do have so many regrets and things they wish they would have done, they live a life their not

In life we all have these moments in time that made us felt so frustrated to the point that these moment become memories that can’t be erased from us even if we try. Some of these moments can be so insignificant that it doesn't need to be, like forgetting to put gas in a car and being stranded because of it or they can be so extremely frustrating that one can vividly remember everything that happen like it was yesterday. Just like the narrative "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell, he vividly remembers what lead him to killing an elephant in a slow, painful way in which he leads to face consequences of what he did. An example of this would be the time I broke the school library computer monitor out of anger about what happen to me in a

Looking back, I could see the blatant mistakes I had made—the bad choices, the regrets. For example, when I got arrested for the first time, when I cheated on the love of my life . . . when I took this job, hoping it would be “The Big One,”

Remorse- a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs # Why were you not telling to me with full confidence.

Success! I got Amy’s book. I enjoy it very much, it’s like taking a candy from a baby. When I took the book I ran promptly in the bathroom because it was the nearest room that I can hide in. She was so angry that she kicked the door several times like an angry raging bull.

People always tend to regret things on their death beds, they mainly regret the idea that they never actually lived their life to their extent, they wish for another chance to be able do the things that they were told they couldn't do and were too afraid of doing, like Henry David Thoreau said “ I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately”. He’s saying that he was tired of the city life and never had the chance to really experience how it was to actually survive, he did what he was missing out on. Henry David Thoreau’s poem “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” (1854) claims that “There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself

Regret is a big issue. A Lot of people do things that they look back on later in life and regert. In the article Ambush the father says that he regrets killing the you soldier, he never meant to kill him. When his daughter asks is he had ever killed anyone he says no, this brought back lots a memories. People in todays society live with a lot of regret. Maybe you regret not going to that party, or not calling someone more, or maybe it is how you treated someone at one point or another. We should not be a society filled with

As Sinitta said, I regret spending so much time regretting things! That's why self-forgiveness is so important. I don't want to waste any more time on things like regret and look back 40

I don 't want to have those regrets at the end of my life. And I 'm pretty sure that you don 't either.

Have you ever done or said something you wish you hadn’t? What if someone was hurt as a result of what you said or did? What did you do once you realized that?