John Stewart Bridges Not Walls Critique

It is 1933. Construction begins. 1937, this landmark is completed and opened to pedestrians and vehicles. It is built at a cost of approximately $35.5 million and comes in under budget and ahead of schedule. World War I veteran Harold Wobber, this landmarks first suicide, claimed, "This is where I get off,” and then jumps to his death. Now jump to 2013. Nearly 1,600 people have committed suicide by jumping off. The average number of suicides from this landmark is three per month. The Golden Gate Bridge was an example of a feat of engineering.

The way your parent acts reflects on the child’s behavior so that is why parenting is

I prefer to reinforce confidence and compassion into raising my sons. To do this, I have to show unconditional love and at the same time setting undefined boundaries. My mother left little to no room for mistakes to be made. She was a firm believer in pushing for excellence. I do not agree with that, I allow my children to make mistakes and I am there to encourage and support them. My mother was never a warm and nurturing parent. In fact, she has often been regarded as cold and rejecting. I choose to be that warm and nurturing parent. Communication is a primary factor in the well being of a parent-child relationship. When dialogue is developed between parent and child, options are explored and the child can learn valuable decision making skills.

In Mary Lawson’s The Other Side Of the Bridge, the proginist, Arthur Dunn faces many problems and obstacles throughout the novel, Arthur eventually overcomes his negative emotions and obstacles and comes to peace with them. Arthur overcomes his resentment and emotions towards Jake and overcomes his negative feelings towards Laura and the farm.

The author wrote about Eddie who has been having it rough lately. He tried to make the best out of his situation living under the circumstances that he does. His family keeps pressuring into avenging his cousin's death. But he still manages to keep his head held high although it seemed like the entire world was against him. He avoids getting into trouble or doing drugs because he knows that he wants a good future and doing those things would not help. He keeps his head down and works for his dollar no matter how hard it can get for him.

When I first arrived to the AT&T Summer Bridge, one of the first people I meet was Tim Willis. He was heaver involved the project aspect of the camp, but still present in that time. The more I talked to him the more interesting his experiences were. He then invited me to check out the Sooner off-Road team, and joined the team. Tim is in his senior year of school and is the person with a lot of experience in the Mechanical Engineering field before graduation.

Parents know more than anyone when it comes to their own child. Chaim Potok thought the same way when he wrote The Chosen. David Malter and Reb Isaac Saunders both love their children in very contrasting ways, but they each know an equal amount about their sons’ personalities. They have different ways of loving and teaching children, so they do what they believe is premium for the habits the child possesses. Children try to hide themselves. The world may lose them, but a parent always knows where they are. A father and a son may not always like each other, but they always love and know each other better than anyone else.

In the article "Pitching Your Praise", the author Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer asserts that it is important for continues growth in kids, that they are allowed to be self sufficient and taught to become independent learners, to learn how to self assess themselves and to choose their own goals in life. This is accomplished by grooming kids to not always have the need to feel validated through someone's approval through empty praise, but by having them feel encouraged through praise that is focused on their actual efforts and the success of their efforts. "The goal of safe praise is to build on your child's growing capacity for self-belief and self-motivation so she can begin to rely less on you and judge her efforts herself." (Hartley-Brewer 3)

As a child, the perspective of a parent is very shallow. The child views a parent as the caregiver, the disciplinary, the homemaker, and the provider but do they see their parents own needs? Most can answer as a no, as children are naturally only self-aware. Then we look at the adulthood year and the parent becomes more a person outside of the caregiver status. The parent and child relationship changes, no longer is the parent providing all the needs for the child and the child grows to see the parent in more of a role of a person who has their own struggles, they have their own past, their own emotional and physical needs they need met as well. The child and parent relationship evolves over the years, we see that the child learns of the parents history, the child sees the parent in a different light and we see this in

The concerned parent attempts to provide all that is needed for their children to grow and developed into acceptable, productive members of society. The nurturance can sometimes become challenging and even gruesome as together, child and parents, travel through the stages of development. Kail and Cavanaugh (2010), describes two dimensions of parenting. The first dimension relates to the amount of affection and concern presented by the parent (warmth). They are genuine in displaying loving care at one end of the spectrum. They integrate

When raising a child parents should consider what type of parent they are going to be to their children. They should decide on which approaches they are going to make in regards to how their child is going to act. There is no guarantee to know how a child is going to behave as they grow older; it is important that parents take the steps necessary to ensure that they can help and try to avoid losing their relationship with their children. A parent's role in raising their children is appreciation, encouragement, guidance, trust, and acceptance. It is not easy to raise a child, and not all kids are going to turn out the way their parents expect them to.

This means that parents have a large role in shaping their children’s behaviours, beliefs and values. It is one thing if you coach a parent on how to eliminate their children’s negative behaviours, but if the parent themselves is not modelling positive behaviour, the child is less likely to change (Webster-Stratton, 2009). For example, mom was unaware that she too, was behaving negatively (e.g., yelling) which was reinforcing her children to see that behaviour as acceptable. Therefore, before going into the problem-solving exercise, I could have added a small simplified blurb about the importance of modelling those positive behaviours. For example, I could have used the phrase ‘Monkey See Monkey Do’ to illustrate how easily manipulated and observant children are. Then, explain the importance of being self aware. Maybe this would have helped mom identify and restructure her own negative behaviours to eliminate the negative ones that are being repeated by her

     The first thing one must know when handling people is “don’t criticize, condemn, or complain.” When you criticize

          In the poem, “The Mending Wall” Frost creates a lot of ambiguity in order to leave the poem open for interpretation. Frost’s description of every detail in this poem is very interesting, it leaves the reader to decide for themselves what deductions they are to be making of the poem. To begin with, Frost makes literal implications about what the two men are doing. For instance, they are physically putting the stones back, one by one. Their commitment and constant drive shows how persistent these men seem about keeping the wall intact. On the other hand, there are inferences that something deeper is occurring.

In this culture, it is normal to have one-two children instead of multiple. Commonly, children are close to their parent’s, but contact with other relatives are averagely not on a daily basis. One learns to be “I” oriented, with independence as the main concept. Quite commonly, parents are proud of children who can grow up to live independently. Also, saying what is on one’s mind is an individualistic characteristic that is highly valued. People who grow up in an individualistic culture understand how helpful constructive criticism