Parenting: An Interview With Lindsay

Relationship affects how you feel about yourself and how you deal with things that happen. A positive relationship with children are more likely to make them feel happy and satisfying while, a negative relationship with children impact them with fear, anger and sadness. Though “Parents' Day” by Sharon Olds focuses on the admirable side of the parents and “Say You Love Me” by Molly Peacock focuses on the miserable, awful side of the parents, both poems uses imagery, figurative language (simile) and tone to bring richness and clarity to their texts.

“Living on my own and having to pay bills and having to take care of myself, you know, made me into a real adult. Where in high school you still have a lot of growing up to do.” Eggert said when asked about an event that changed her from the person she was in high school to who she is now. It is important to her to always be independent and to be able to think on her own. “ I still have the same values and things that I’m passionate about -- but more so now. I think having children changed my outlook on parenting enormously.” Eggert said. The values my mother holds dear to her, such as parenting, ethics, and political views have stayed, for the most part, consistent through her life. However, she is always accepting to change to accommodate the new world into her

My name is Kaitlyn Hoopingarner, and I am a senior at West High School. Sioux City, Iowa has been my home for my whole life. At West High, I am involved in multiple activities: varsity wrestling cheer, robotics, and theatre. In addition to my school activities, I also paint, crochet, and play video games. I plan to attend Iowa State University to major in Computer Science. My birthday is July 25th, and Christmas is December 25th; so, my birthday is "Christmas in

Relationships are like sail boats. In order to sail without any mishaps, similar wants and expectations need to be taken into account. However, many of those same desires and intentions are not often met, especially in mother-daughter relationships. The relationship that a mother has with her daughter can be extremely complex particularly due to cultural differences and complicated pasts. In the novel, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, growing up in a bicultural environment tears apart the strong bond between mothers and daughters, as they go through problematic events caused by high expectations, hardship and lack of communication.

Although she may have been looking out for her child, she did so because in the end, it would affect her. She learned that she was just a small part of the bigger picture, through life

Julie Jones is a single parent. She lives with her children, eleven-year-old Eric and seven-year-old Stella. He ex-husband, Brad, pays child support regularly but does not spend much time with his children, even though he shares custody of them with Julie. She has a full-time job at the local university. When she is not working, her time is devoted to her children--helping them with schoolwork, driving them to soccer practice and games, taking them to music lessons and play dates. Feeling overwhelmed by all her responsibilities, Julie asks to speak with you, her pastor, about her situation. She is feeling increasingly resentful and angry with her ex-husband for not being more involved in the children's lives. Eric has been getting into trouble

Here she is playing the motherly role and shows the love and honesty a mother would give to her own child. Maybe it would take time for her friends to understand why Leann was making this decision and maybe they would never understand, but Leann had thought out her decision and took the time to

Another way I feel I can take this article and relate to it and apply it is as a future parent. I want to learn from this encounter Lahey is having with Marianna’s mom. She is a mom who has the best of intentions, but it does not always come across the most effectively. I hope that when the time comes, I will be able to be a support system for my child, not the source of their struggles. I want to be a self-monitoring parenting and take inventory of my thoughts, words, and actions. Children are so intuitive and they can pick apart what you do and say, so as a parent you have to be very cautious. I aim to be the kind of parent that checks in with my child(ren) and make sure my message and whatnot are coming across in a healthy manner to help them, not hurt them. I want to be the parent that respects my child’s individuality and demeanor. I want to meet them wherever they are, not where I wish they were. I want to have enough confidence in them to let them work out their own struggles and problems without feeling the need to step in. Because that can lead to a toxic cycle. As a parent I want to take this kind of advice. I want to instill a good set of values in my kids and make sure they have a positive and long term concept of what success and achievement looks like. That is how I potentially relate to this article as a future parent.

The parent interviewed is middle aged mother of two, which both are in their late twenties. She informed me that prior to having children she thought that she would never experience the joy of motherhood. Mrs. Digat married young at seventeen years of age and longed to have a family of her own. Unfortunately, pregnancy did not come easily. She saw countless doctors and underwent numerous procedures in effort to become a mother. There was nothing she wanted more out of life that to have her own little bundle of joy. Many years came and went without a baby that she so desired; Mother’s Day was especially difficult to endure. Then, unexpectedly after thirteen years of trying she became pregnant. This was the beginning of a

Neither Mr. Bennet nor Mrs. Bennet portrays a great archetype of good parenthood. If one chose the better of the two, I would choose Mr. Bennet. A good example is when Elizabeth rejects Mr. Collins’ offer of marriage. Mrs. Bennet becomes lugubrious and perplexed. Her daughter was making a fateful error, and she goes into a state of hysteria. She responds to Mr. Collins “that Lizzie shall be brought to reason.” Mrs. Bennet’s primary interest is to have her daughters marry into wealth and provide for her if she became a widow. “The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.” Mr. Bennet responds diametrically to Mrs. Bennet. Mrs. Bennet urges her husband to command Elizabeth to marry Mr. Collins.

I am a Foster Care Case Manager at Caritas Family Solutions in East Alton. A mutual client, Sarah Lake DOB 06/28/1991 reports she has started to engage in parenting classes through your agency. Sarah has a service plan with our agency; as part of this service plan, she is required to complete parenting classes.

Looking back over the interview with Julie and Jennifer. I believe that I was able to assist them on a consulting basis with the issues they were having. I did not become involved in a personal crisis or try to become a counselor to them. I was acting as a consultant provide possible solutions to issues they were having. Jennifer remembered belly breathing and counting from classes at school to help her calm down when she is upset. I brought up using a peace path, too. These are three ways that she can calm down instead of stomping off and slamming her

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

Amanda well said, the movies do give a false identity of what a real woman’s life story. Lifetime movies may be the closest to real life stories. The Hollywood movies are fairytales, therefore young girls who do not have good parents like you to teach them the importance of self-respect, independence and responsibility will grow up to have a low self-esteem. It is so important to teach our children respect themselves and to respect others.

At the beginning of the course I noticed the text box on the top of the first page of the syllabus. The box contained a statement made by Michael Levine voicing that “having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.” This quote was a catalyst to my in depth thinking about the course and how I want to apply its content later in life as a future educator and mother. I believe this phrase represents the ignorance placed on parenting. For most, this job is naturally attainable and almost an expected milestone in one’s lifetime. As a society, we think this a something that the majority of the population experiences. Therefore, this role does not require prior preparation.