...their homes, proper nutrition’s, how to drive, hunt, fish, home maintenance, dating issues, discipline, and a host of other things that their children will face in their life as they grow into responsible adults. The responsibility of raising children begins immediately from the time they bring the child home on the first day. This is when the bonding of the child and parents begins. The mom of course is in need the most help during this time. The input from her mate is vital, as she is feeling the pain of the literal child bearing experience, and really needs the father to be right there to take care of her and the baby needs. There is a huge responsibility of making sure that the baby is fed, bathed, and changed, to cooking cleaning, and doing everything else that mom usually does to keep the home running but cannot be done as a result of the birth of the new baby. If the parents are not a couple, and the father is not able to step in to help, then he would...
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...1. Choose either "Where Are You Going?" or "Two Kinds" and explain your reactions to your chosen story. I choose "Two Kinds" over "Where Are You Going". I kept loosing focus while reading "Where Are You Going". I have always had a hard time with reading comprehension, and I really have to engage myself to keep going. "Two Kinds" kept my interest with ease. Neither one of my parents forced me to do anything. Sure, they guided me, but they always gave me choices. They never told me they wanted me to be rich or famous, or to do things they never done. Sometimes, I wish they provided a bit more direction, maybe I wouldn't have to be taking this class so late in life. When watching some of these reality shows like "Toddlers and Tiara's", you can clearly see that the parents are in it for their own gratification. 2. What do you feel is significant about this piece of literature and why? (Discuss possible themes and the author’s intentions.) The theme of this piece is dealing with conflict. It highlights how far some parents go to try to better help their children's future welfare. Ann was very content just being 'normal', but her mother wanted her to by much much more. Maybe it was only for self gratification, or maybe it was truly a sincere hope of her mother than Ann would not have to suffer with the same life challenges she had to. 3. What do you think is the value of the literary piece and the form of literature it is written in? (Why has this story...
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...your parents; for example, hard work, dedication, and perseverance. The story “The wisdom of the last Farmer” by David Mas Masumoto goes over hard work and dedication after his father got a stroke, Masumoto had to stand up and take care of the farm. He looks at the farm with new eyes which he and generation of family have labored for decades. It was really hard for Masumoto to do it by him self but he got by with what he learned from his father with a few objects and hard work and keeping a positive attitude to always stay up. Masumoto had no choice but to put into practice what his father had teach him Determination, Hard work, and perseverance are the three things he has to use now that his dad had the stroke. Which it will help him to deal with the farm and his family struggle. Determination is one of the many things Masumoto learn from his father. After the accident with his father Masumoto has a lot of working to do. He main focus is to make those perfect peaches better than his child hood. Masumoto wants to succeed and make perfect peaches. “My main story is about trying to grow the perfect peach. I want peaches that are even better than the ones from my child hood.”(37). He is so determine to make the perfect peaches and to him it would not matter what it would take. Even though his father had the stroke and his family struggles. Masumoto stood up to the challenge and refuse to just stay at home doing nothing. he saids,"Im not going to crawl around My knees"(60)....
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...Parental School Involvement is a Plus Parents usually ask themselves if home schooling actually works, or if public schools are such a problem. Parents are reasonably cautious when considering something as important as their children’s’ learning environment. While homeschool and public school focuses on education, the right parental involvement can provide positive effect on a child. Parents have limited involvement with their children at public school. In this case, A father was homeschooling his oldest son. He and his wife have not always homeschooled their son, even though they did not originally set out to do so. they homeschooled their oldest son for two years, the years he was in public schools caused parent to be mindful of other options of appropriate education for their son. He was in public school from 1st to 9th grade. They thought they had legitimate reasons for their decision, to wait a little longer to take their son out of public school and thought they could counter any challenging social issues they received along the way. They were naive. The son was also classified as “gifted;” however, public schools teach to the average and so he spent a lot of time with nothing to do. On the contrary, Home School allows the freedom to explore and learn at the pace of the individual student. Their son also had a bladder issue that made him have serious urgency to use the restroom without really much notice. The parent explained the issue with his...
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...kids’ Dad said ‘the civilians are revolting. We better Skedaddle.’” (Walls109). Skedaddle means to get going and move, but in Rex’s language it meant to move to a new city and take whatever you can put in your pockets. He wasn’t a man that would take many things with him when he would move anywhere, and so he made his family do the same. Rex would always reassure Jeannette that everything is okay and he would make her feel comfortable about the situation they are in. She saw her father like a hero, saving them from the bad guys every time they moved, at least when they were younger. Rex’s ability to make Jeannette feel unique is on of the main reasons why she still holds onto him when others give up. An example of when Rex made her feel special was when he gave the kids all a star for Christmas, but he gave Jeannette Venus. She felt very special when her dad gave her it. At the end of that same passage her father says “’Years from now… you’ll have your own stars’” (41) this is a strong example her father emphasizing her uniqueness, as he clearly sets the...
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...Report to the court I will start out by giving you a short summary of the whole case. As I understand it the situation is as follows. The boy in this case Jamie and his father William, are out in the Australian wildness, to shoot kangaroos. Jamie tells me, that he is reluctant to use the riffle. However his father keeps pushing him to take the rifle and shoot his first kangaroo. I understand that he feels that his father is pushing him further than he wishes to go. The pressure leads to further shootings, and as I understand it, the boy feels that he loses control of himself. The next thing that happens is that the boy finds his father lying on the ground with a shooting wound in his back. At this point Jamie realizes that his father is dead. What happens after seems to be a little unclear. Jamie is not able to explain how he finds his way home. Evaluation of the psychological profile of Jamie. I have now spoken to Jamie for some hours. He appears to be unstable. He has been crying a couple of times. I don’t think he cries because he is scared, actually I think it’s because he wants to fool me, to think that he is a little innocent boy. In my opinion Jamie knows what he did, when he shot his father, it was not an accident. Jamie is a sly, but clever little boy. The relationship between Jamie and his father was actually not good. Jamie has some serious wounds on his back and legs. It looks like he's been beaten by a belt or something like that. His mother left Jamie and his...
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...conditions try to immigrate to another country. Sometimes the immigrant is completely alone without any family, because the family is unable to run away from the country. If the immigrant then succeeds their immigration they do not know anything about their family anymore. For all they know they could be dead. This is what the story “How Lucky You Are” from 2010 by Depi Alper is about. The story takes place in the urban environment of South London in Corydon where the main character named Max lives. Max is a troubled teenager who lives with his mom. Max’ father left to find himself. Max hates him for this mainly because he could hear his mother cry weeks after the father left: “Yeah right, Dad. That's why I heard her crying every night for weeks after you left. Fuck off then and if you do manage to find yourself in Thailand or wherever you are, give yourself a kick in the bollocks from me.” (page 1 line 16-18). Before his father left he was very excited to start at a new school called The Brit School. It is a school for performing arts and technology. He started on this school because his mom and his teachers said he...
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...Homeless of Liz Murray and Murray Barr Elizabeth Murray has been homeless since she was born by her parent were cocaine addicts who spent most of the family’s money on feeding their habits. By her age 15, she was homeless and her mother had died of AIDS, and her father was on the streets. She told her mother that she made her vows to herself that her life would be different life, and made her decision that the best way to avoid that to go back to school, but she accepted at Humanities Preparatory Academy as public high school which they did not know she is herself as homeless. She did become more intelligence student and loved to learning she can do. At last, she finally accepted to enter into Harvard University after her 15 different of scholarships already awarded. Liz felt her parent made her feel loved and understood that her parent had disease that prevented them from giving her more than they did. Her father, with whom she is close and has developed AIDS,. Liz does not feel she has moved past of her childhood rather she stayed her part of everything about who she is. She has learned from her experiences and looked her new life. She now is brilliant and intelligent education and person. She can share with all the people how she felt her experience about her homeless life. About Murray Barr, I hadn’t known very well about his life, but I do know Liz’s life than Murray. I read his article which is showing no real reason why he was homeless considering he was ex-marine...
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...Management of Parental Preoperative Anxiety Walden University NURS4000, Section 01, Research and Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice October 6, 2013 Management of Parental Preoperative Anxiety When a child requires surgical intervention, the process can be a stressful and frightening experience for the entire family. Some parents express feelings of guilt along with anxiety over having to subject their child to invasive procedures. Though our facility offers a preoperative program for families, it is limited in age for those 4 – 12 years old and healthy. The purpose of this assignment is to give information on a change in practice aimed at adequately managing preoperative anxiety of patients and families not eligible for the traditional preoperative preparation offered. The Problem As part of preoperative preparation in the pediatric population, healthy children ages 4 - 12 and their families are offered a developmentally appropriate Child Life preparation class. Given by the certified Child Life Specialist, this is an interactive program aimed at helping children and families understand what to expect during the preoperative, operative and postoperative periods, it consists of hands-on medical play, educational games, and a tour of the operating and recovery rooms. A week before the scheduled surgery, a Registered Nurse will contact the all families via telephone and conduct a health review along with giving preoperative and arrival instructions....
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...Maternal figues in beloved Baby suggs and Sethe are both the Mother figues in beloved and despite their suffering from slavery they both cared for their children greatly. Baby Suggs and Sethe connected through Motherhood to develop a close bond. They shared the love for their children a bond that all mothers can relate with. Sethe has four children that she loves very much but she could not deal with her past of sweet home. Sethe could not bare for that to happen to her children so she had to save them from the schoolteacher and slavery by trying to kill them. She kills one child whom is referred to as beloved for what is written on her tomb stone, but fails to kill howard buglar, and Denver. Sethe motherly natural instincts caused her to try to save her children from a place like sweet home by any means necessary including death. Sethe being the loving mother she is tries to save her children because she wants a better life and for her children to not suffer like she did. Baby suggs is not only a mother to her specific children but also serves as a mother to slave runaways showing her motherly role in the novel. Baby suggs was "followed by every black man, woman and child who could make it through, took her great heart to the clearing" (Morrison 102). Baby suggs would care for the runaways and preach in her own spiritual way for the runaways, Morrison uses suggs to compare and contrast the mothering style of the two woman by comparing old and new motherhood. Baby suggs...
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...confusion and turmoil I could see that the hardest part of leaving the past was deciding what not to take with me. You could throw away every journal, diary and photo album you ever had even leave your home but when it all comes down to it no matter what you leave or throw away you’re taking your memories with you. One of the hardest things I ever had to go through was my parents’ divorce. Growing up I was naive to a lot of things. Sitting in my living room, no more than five years old my dad would come home from work and go straight to his room. Being as little as I was I would think “maybe he didn’t see me I am short and small”. Something like that so minute could later on conclude I did not have an affectionate father. Back then I got very little attention from my father; it was like he had no time. Both my parents worked hard and I can now appreciate that today than opposed to back then. Most of the time my aunt would look after me when my older sisters where in school. When she got pregnant with my cousin Jessica I was more of a help. “Keilah could you please bring the clothes basket in here” Her tone was so mellow, I was always happy to help. The smell of laundry detergent filled the room as the clothes washed. That smell can bring back old memories. Being a mother made my aunt brighter but just for a little while. Years later I found out she could never pass the bar exam to get into law school. Only then did things in her family make sense; the lack of joy and happiness. As...
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...spend years of their lives attempting to understand and find closure, but some don’t find any at all. No grief is greater than the other, no matter how miniscule some seem. It’s how they responded to the losses that defined what kind of person they are. Oskar Schell finds his own unique ways of dealing with his grief. Dealing with his issues in his own unique way, Oskar is doing his best to prevent the loss of his father from destroying his entire world. He uses the key he found, his inventions, and even self-harm to help grieve the untimely loss of his father. Using his journey to find what the key opens as way to cope with the grief of losing his father, Oskar struggles to understand why this is happening to him. One would suspect his intelligence would help play a factor in his grieving process, but it is shown that he is still very much a 9 year old kid to the core. Embarking on his journey he searches for not only what the key opens but also answers to what really happened to his dad. While searching for some sort of answer he also is extending to memory of his father. This answer however is not found and Oskar even states this when he’s says, “The whole point was to stop missing him” (Foer 255). After finding out what the key opens he can’t help but feel disappointed. He feels that...
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...Family and Leisure I believe all of my leisurely activities are a result of my upbringing and the things that my parents partook in during my childhood. There are many different activities that I tried growing up like basketball, baseball, and horseback riding, but theses activities never really stuck with me. These were all activates that my mom got into, but not really my dad. I believe the lack of support from my father on these activities kept me from really getting involved with them as well. There is however activities that I picked up from my father that I still do today and are a part of my best memories. Growing up we would usually all eat dinner around the table then go and watch the nightly sitcoms on TV. Home Improvement and Dinosaurs are two that stick out the most in my mind. This was a time that we could all sit down and relax together. Then mom would usually read my brother and me a bedtime story and then we would pray before bed. I still use television as a way of reducing stress and relaxing at the end of the day. The pray before bed I believe helped to create a strong foundation of faith for me and my brother that goes beyond just going to church every Sunday. One of the things that we would always do when we visited my grandparents was play poker. Mom would usually give me and my brother around four dollars in change to play nickel and dime poker. This was a time that we all got to be together and talk about life while my brother and I got to learn...
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...Significant Connections for Families of an ID Child Alfreda Green Grand Canyon University: SPE 351 June 30, 2013 Significant Connections for Families of an ID Child Children born with disabilities have to face challenges every day, some more than others depending upon their disability. There are four types of intellectual disabilities, mild, moderate, severe, and profound. To determine if a child is intellectual disabled, his or her IQ would have to be tested and an adaptive behavior is reviewed (NICHCY, 2013). Having a good support system is the key for parents when having a child with intellectual disabilities. I had the opportunity to discuss this with a teacher, Mrs. Karen Derrick, who teaches Special Education. She has worked with different types of ID children throughout her career. According to Mrs. Derrick, the impact an individual with an intellectual disability has on the family structure varies from family to family and disability to disability. Rest assured it will have some impact. These can range from something as minor as having to wear ear protection at a fireworks presentation to having to learn sign language or even other alternate forms of communication such as eye gazing. All of these will impact the family. For example, there are some people that have an intellectual disability that may never potty train, therefore requiring diapering, possibly for their entire life. This means they have to have round the clock care, not to mention the added...
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...comes, the three summer months May, July and August the ‘’Summer People’’ arrive to Sheringham. They shall stay there until September where the summer time is over. . It is only when summer time comes the village is lively and it is filled with people. Julian lives with his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Holroyd. Julian don’t know what to do, He is facing a huge quandary about his future. Julian doesn’t know if he should follow his dream of becoming an artist or he should listen to his father’s advice and continue school? It is really a tough decision for Julian because on the one hand he is really talented at drawing, making art and making experiments with his art, it is just want he wants to do and he loves it. But on the other hand there is his father’s wish for his education. His mother and especially his father who is a newsagent-cum-stationer aren’t happy with his interest in painting and making art. They think Julian should continue his scientific career, although his mother tells him that he can always keep up his drawing and artwork ‘’as a kind of hobby’’ (s. 3 l. 96-97). But the parent’s attitude to their sons’ painting changes after they meet Miss Hoare. Mr. Holroyd, Julian’s father don’t like the summer tourist, but his attitude to Miss Hoare is different and he tells the family at home that Miss Hoare was staying at the most expensive hotel in Sheringham, Julian's parents are very aware of their reputation Sheringham, and it shows in the text, they like having afternoon...
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