Hope Edelman's The Myth Of Co-Parenting

Parental figures tend to shape children into the individuals they become later in life. In The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, Peekay lacks the traditional parental figure that most people have, and instead crosses paths with many significant people over the course of the book. This puts Peekay at an advantage because he is able to see the world through different perspectives, the perspectives of those who mentored him. He learns from people of all walks of life, which leads to him being unbiased and open minded. Peekay also is at an advantage because he has to learn to think for himself. His mentors help him with this, but the lack of a true parent forces him to learn this skill early on and master it by time is was older. Finally, each of Peekay's mentors have something different to offer, a different key piece of advice, that give him a set of morals to live by. In the Power of One, the lack

Bill McKibben writes his essay, “The Case for Single-Child Families,” in a professional, educated way using figurative language to get his point across. Throughout McKibben’s essay, he uses the appeal of pathos and logos to seek the approval of his adult readers over his vasectomy. In his essay, he uses figurative language to allow his readers to get a better understanding how strongly he feels about having a single child family. McKibben writes his essay to persuade the reader to have fewer children, to be selfish, and to enjoy their child-less time. He wants his readers to explore and not worry whether they’ll be hurt by a “stray Lego left in the tub.”

Parenting has the ability to shape the life of a child; it can be compared to fertilizer, enriching and accelerating a plant’s development. One can question whether certain parenting styles are effective. It can be argued that the parenting style of the Walls family can be dangerous for the children and ineffective. Based on the overwhelming evidence provided by the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, we have come to the conclusion that the Walls parents should no longer have custody of their children.

“The Undercover Parent” is an article about whether or not parents should get a software that watches teens and children’s actions on the computer. So should parents of Teens and Tweens go undercover? Harlan Coben, the author of “The Undercover Parent” editorial (19 March 2008) from the New York Times online website claims that parents should have conversations about their Internet safety concerns with their teens and tweens, and let them know that Spyware is a possibility. I agree with what coben is arguing about. It talks about specific details on either giving parents an option on if they should download it or not, so the author writes good things and bad things about it. It's not snooping or spying on your teens. It basically for their safety. If they still had this software in the future, I would get this because everything the author says about this software is very agreeable. I would do it for my

I have just finished reading Break by Hannah Moskowitz, and its easy readability made me wonder if I had made the right choice, but once the climax hit there was so much depth that I could not put the book down. This dramatic young adult book was a slower pace with more dialogue than my first two books, which I didn’t mind. I found Break in a small bookstore in South Carolina and I regretted not buying it before we left. This year I was happy to find it under my Christmas tree. The story is about a seventeen year old boy named Jonah who lives with his two younger brothers.

In Sam’s unfortunate situation he feels he is unable to talk to his family and tell them how he feels and what he really wants to do in terms of his career and so social justice isn’t being encouraged because Sam should feel safe enough to talk to his parents and let them know how he was feeling. It would also be a very unfair situation if he were forced into his father’s business when he had other plans and ideas in mind.

As an educator, I have never experienced the unfortunate level of parental pressure endured by Leticia Granados. In my role as a Disability Advocate, I did experience a grandmother who refused services because of my skin color. I was assigned to attend an IEP meeting in Paris, Tennessee. My client was male high school student diagnosed with Autism. A “neurodevelopmental disorder that impairs the ability to communicate and interact with others. The grandparent requested services beuase she felt her grandson’s IEP was not be implemented. I contacted the school to get the ball rolling to address the grandparent’s concerns. After numberous phone calls and countless emails an agreement was reached. The school agreed

Firstly, the author purposes the idea of parenting in Brave New World is obsolete the simple mentioning of “mother” is inappropriate in the society of Brave New World, this society deemed to be a Utopian in fact demonstrates dystopian; parenting is nothing but profanity in their culture. A parent in a Utopian society offers comfort, care, love, guidance and establishes a bond with their offspring, in the novel John a young boy was denied any sort of a normal mother son relationship. John was attempting to ease Linda’s problems by offering comfort and support in her times of anguish, instead John’s mother Linda reveals some very disheartening information to John “

Joseph Biscoglio and Nieli Langer, in their academic journal “Grandparents Against Homework,” promote to the readers that devoted grandparents can be of great assistance to their grandchildren in regards to homework. Biscoglio and Langer’s purpose is to inform the audience of an ongoing debate over the impact of homework, or rather the lack thereof. Much of this debate is centered around the idea that homework is beginning to take over student’s time to do other socially enriching activities such as sports, music, family, community, religion and even sleep. While Biscoglio and Langer do a good job informing their readers of this debate, they tend to make a lot of broad assumptions and do not clearly tie together their argument.

John Rosemond was born in 1947. He received his master’s in 1977 from Western Illinois University in psychology. He got his is a family psychologist and has practice with this family. He has written 14 books and eleven of his books are the best-selling parenting books. He is qualified to write these books because he has a master’s in family psychology and has children of his own and has been through what he is writing about. Also some say he is so “qualified because he has been married for over 40 years, two children and seven grandchildren” (The Leadership Parenting Institution). Nowadays Rosemond is doing speaking tours he will go to different cities and talk about his experiences and what he has learned. He has also done radio shows to reach

Distracted parenting is the newest hazard caused by the normalization of cell phone usage in our everyday life according to Deborah Fallows in her article “Papa, Don’t Text: The Perils of Distracted Parenting” originally published in The Atlantic. In an article directed at parents in the technological age, she claims that parents are spending more time focusing on their phones and less time interacting with their babies. This issue can potentially cause long-term problems for their children’s linguistic skills. Fallows herself has a Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard. She also includes research from two other reputable sources to further validate her claim. Fallows delivers her argument in a short article with appeals to logos, pathos, and ethos, but her article lacks any real opinions put forth by the author, which weakens the impact of the piece.

Mike Males begins his essay by explaining that television is blamed by many for influencing children to behave poorly, begin smoking, drinking alcohol, and doing drugs. He then argues that television is not the reason after all that children misbehave. He states that the reason children do things is because of the way adults influence them. In this essay Males explains how it is the parents of these children and other adults that are influencing their behavior, not the television programs. Children watch adults and repeat what they see. For example, if the adult smokes their child is more likely to begin smoking at a young age. Also if a child is raised in a household of alcoholics or drug addicts, the child will likely become an alcoholic or drug addict, too. Throughout his paper he provides statistics that supports his claim.

While containing very and somewhat effective forms of logical and emotional appeal throughout the text, Pearlstein unfortunately lacks to present effective ethical appeals to further his credibility on the subject of advancing liberal arts in popularity and the benefits of such. One of the most evident and disappointing manners in which Pearlstein declines in credibility is in the choice of title for this work. The title being, “Meet the parents who won't let their children study literature,” which would imply that at several times in the text, we would come to truly “meet parents” of college students “who won’t let their children study literature.” However, this comes to severely damage the ethical appeal of Pearlstein due to the attraction and claim present in the title of the audience coming to at some point, meet parents and their testimonies, yet such does not occur. The weakness present in such is that the title, being a main element of the text, is not an accurate representation of the text. Although we are told we will “meet the parents” we in fact, only meet the one parent that fits this paycheck over passion persona through a brief quotation. The missing aspect which would increase his credibility would be to of course, to contain more parental testimonies and insight as to why these believed parents think a certain way towards their children's’ choice of major and use such as a counterargument that can be used to Pearlstein’s advantage through stronger rebuttal.

Parenting is a subject that often comes into question by our society. While parenting comes in many in different forms, it can be classified into two general categories: Chinese and Western. In today’s world, it seems that the Chinese methods of parenting are generating more prosperous children than the Western approach. In “The Roar of the Tiger Mom”. Amy Chua discusses the dramatic contrast between the concepts of Chinese and Western parenting. She goes in depth to justify why she believes that the Chinese parenting style will yield better results than the parenting of the West. Her examples of personal success with Chinese parenting attempts to convince the reader that putting your children through rigor will ultimately result in success.

Even though she can be very controlling, I am very happy to have her and my grandfather in my life. If I was asked in one word how would I describe my relationship with my grandparents? I would say “strong”. The relationship that I have with my grandparents can never be broken no matter what. Although, my grandparents played a big role in my life, I wanted to understand what a grandparent’s role in a two parent households was. In an article called The Role of Grandparents in Children’s Lives by Rachel Dunifon (a professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University and Associate Director of the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research) and Pamela Weisberg, (a doctoral candidate in the Division on Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University with a background in Public Health Nutrition) wrote about how the increasing roles grandparents play in their child’s family lives. In the article they stated that “approximately 8% of U.S. children live in three-generational household” (Dunifon and Shapiro), I three generation household consist of the grandparent, parent and the children. They state that grandparent’s involvement might be a source of stress or could be indicative of existing familial problems” (Dunifon and Shapiro). To really understand the goods and bad of a three-generational household I wanted to talk with my interviewee about how his three-generation household was like. I started off by asking him to explain his family’s life with