The Impact Of Bad Parenting In The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

Would a good parent’s allow their three-year-old daughter to boil her own hot dogs? Parenting is one of the most important pieces in a child's life, and it shows a bond between parents and their kids. However people who don't give quality parenting lead their children through a rough life. In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, she talks about her life experiences and hardships she had from having inadequate parents. Despite the fact that her parents intention were to help their children unfortunately, they end up harming the children physically, emotionally, and mentally. Although she is not raised in the traditional way, Jeannette overcomes the challenges by persevering through the bad times, finding her place in society, and

In the novel The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, the uncertain future of the Walls’ children was questionable from the start. From a drunk father, to never having a steady home, the author tells of her idiosyncratic youth to describe the bitterness and longing for an ordinary childhood.

Most often, in most families, children look up to their parents for guidance as children view their parents as role models. However in The Glass Castle, this was not the case but the exact opposite.

People often fall into some sticky situations, but how they deal with them is the thing that matters most. In The Glass Castle, a memoir by Jeannette Walls, she takes the readers through her life, starting at her earliest memory as a three-year-old, constantly living in a state of homelessness. Throughout the story, Walls experiences countless situations from her father being an alcoholic, to everyday school bullies. She uses a series of coping mechanisms to deal with, and sometimes terminate these issues. In fact, everyone of her siblings and parents uses various coping methods for these same situations. These methods may not always be the most effective, but people, including the Walls family, nevertheless use them to get by on their

The Glass Castle What happens to a kid when they are young, can affect how successful they will become in the future. A parent helps to teach their kid what they should work for so they will be able to support themselves when they grow up, but this doesn’t always happen. In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Rex and Rosemary Walls used poor parenting skills when raising their children. They didn’t keep their children safe from many of the amiss things that happened in the book, that could have been easily prevented.

Jeannette Walls,subject and author of The Glass Castle, includes several social issues that she and her family come across daily during her childhood. However, the three most important social issues the memoir addresses is poverty, alcoholism, and child abuse. These social issues affect a large amount of children with their emotions and social development.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir about her life and her family's life in detail. She includes her struggles and how far she has come. In this book there are many examples of child neglect and inadequate parenting styles. The way Rose Mary and Rex Walls, Jennette's parents, raised their children was without the intention of putting them in danger, but they found themselves in danger many times. For example, many times throughout the book it stated that the kids basically had to do things on their on, and that they would go hungry most of the time. In addition, Jennette was three years old trying to make hot dogs on her own because she was really hungry. When suddenly her dress caught on fire leaving her severely burned and rushed

“I live in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes” - Jeannette Walls. This book The Glass Castle is about Jeanette and her siblings, Lori, Brian, and Maureen withstanding many hardships living under the roof of their adolescent and neglectful parents, Rex Walls and Rose Mary Walls. Now the Walls’ parents are not first-rate parents, but they can be second-rate parents because they don’t take care of the Walls’ children basic needs and they don’t treat Lori, Brian, Jeanette the way parents should. Although they have some flaws there is a little good in them.

In, The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, Walls accounts her family throughout her childhood. To most people the Walls family would seem very peculiar. They live unbound by other’s opinions, and prefer to stray from normality. The Walls family and the word aberrance define each other, yet, both have intricacies that go far beyond a simple definition.

“When bad things happen early in life, whether you remember them or not, the brain doesn't forget,” Jack Shonkoff, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, said at a recent conference in Washington, D.C. . In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Rex and Rose Mary Walls were fit parents, because they had made their children tough by exposing them to various things at an early age, and had taught their children how to be independent in life. At certain times Rex and Rose Mary Walls were good parents, because they had taught their kids various life lessons, one being how to be independent. But at the same time Rex and Rose Mary Walls had been unfit parents, because they had put their kids in various situations that were dangerous for children of that age.

Rex Walls, her father,  was very hands with his parenting bringing issues to the family, while contrasting Rose Mary, her mother, was very relaxed in her parenting technique. Ironically, because Rose Mary  and Rex continued to neglect their family's needs throughout the novel, Jeanette, who still was a child, took over their roles as adults. As a child Jeannette should be dependent on the parents, however, Rex spent money on unnecessary liberations and Rose Mary selfishly refused to keep working. ' "Why do I always have to be the one who earns the money?' Mom asked. '

Everyone in the universe has different lifestyle and might have their own childhood story. Some have happy childhood, and some have sad one. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls is an autobiographical journal about her life and her family from her toddler age to her adult time. The book features her family and her relationship with every single one of her family members. She is especially close to her highly intelligent father with a passion for logic and alcoholic, Rex Walls. It expresses about what she remembers from her childhood time, and how she ends up in New York City with her family. She explains why her parents prefer the lifestyle that they are living in, and how they choose to be homeless. The expression of Jeannette Walls when she talks about her own life story without strong emotion to describe about her parents on how they

In the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, describes her memories growing up with her family. The Walls family is a complex family where the intentions of the parents is not fully comprehensible. For instance, it is difficult to make judgement of the parents as solely bad people. Walls’s parents are faulty in their decisions, but it can be refuted that the parents had good intentions based on what they believed in to be true. The parents were educated, but they refused to follow the rules of common knowledge and perception s of society.

In my opinion, The Glass Castle is just ok, here is why I think this. The story makes sense but it also just makes you mad, when you see that there are families like this in the world you want to do something, but yet you can't. Sitting and reading the book can also be boring, it's not my favorite genre, i'm sure others feel this way too. I say that you should keep teaching this book, I did not enjoy it but it has a great lesson. I feel the book makes you look and see how drugs and bad parenting can ruin your children's life.

Not all people raise children the same way. Each parent has his or her own method of preparing a child for the world. In the article “What Makes a Good Parent,” author Robert Epstein lays out ten criteria for “good” parents. In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Walls’s parents display techniques that initially seem detrimental to her life. However, throughout the memoir, Walls’s mother and father demonstrate Epstein’s good parenting qualities by promoting self-sufficiency and providing educational opportunities in unique ways.