...Defining a Parent Growing up in a single-parent home for all of my life, I’ve learned a lot about parenting. Being a parent is a role that is often underestimated. Parents seldom realize the impact that they have on their kids, and how they can impact the kids’ lives for the better or worse. The world we live in today defines a parent by the house they live in and the car they drive. Being a good parent these days is based off of qualities that are unimportant and unrelated to actually being a good parent. Contrary to popular belief, this is not the way it should be done. Regardless of money and power, a parent is defined by their love, their ability to forgive, and their supportiveness. Parents love for their kids can make a huge difference in their lives. If this love is only temporary, or when their kids do something right or well, that can emotionally hurt the kids worse than many may realize. Conditional love will act as the root of all evil in a relationship between a parent and their kid. It shows the kid that they will be loved based off of what they do and how well they do it, not because of who they are. Unconditional love however, can make all the difference in a relationship. Kids who are loved unconditionally learn that they also should love unconditionally, and that it is the greatest kind of love. They learn that they are loved because of who they are and not what they’ve done. As Margaret Paul explained, “Our children become a mirror of our own behavior, discounting...
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...Taren Bradd Mrs. Burton English 4/ Period 5 January 25, 2011 Overzealous Parents There is one at almost every sporting event. They are parents that yell outrageously at the players, coaches, and referees, disrupting the sporting event, or pausing games. Even though there are other families and younger children around. These are parents that are displaying unsportsmanlike conduct and sometimes even violent behavior. Over the years there are more and more parents that are becoming over involved in their children’s sporting activities. Parents today are demonstrating over involvement, over spending, and are over booking their children in youth sports and extracurricular activities. Sports are supposed to be fun and competitive but more fun and entertaining than anything. Parental over involvement is becoming a problem because they can take the fun out of sports for the kids. Parent’s voices can go along way. Yelling and cheering on players and teams is a good thing. Parents should be excited and giving the kids good complements. But when parents display bad sportsmanship it is a different story. As parents are yelling mean statements they are not thinking about how that might make that kid feel. The child’s parents are most likely around somewhere and may get upset as well. If kids are hearing insults and inappropriate words yelled at them the game would also become less fun and hard to focus on. Some kid’s use it to their advantage, and play better because they...
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...Penny Driver EDU-250 January 25th, 2013 Alison Atkins My Personal Classroom Management Plan This is the plan that I have created for my Center and I believe that it meets the criteria of this class. I believe that developmentally appropriate program must be developed focusing on the following beliefs. That our staff will be committed to providing active hands on type of learning atmosphere. In fulfilling our commitment to the children enrolled, we attempt to implement and educational program with the following philosophy. We believe that children learn best when allowed to be actively involved in the classroom. We provide three-dimensional learning experiences that encourage busy involvement opposed to inactive two-dimension instruction. A child enrolled in our program will enjoy the time they spend in their classrooms. His/hers experiences will be fun and rewarding-fostering in a positive attitude toward school and learning. Children are encouraged to be themselves. They begin at their own individual level of development and progress at their own rate. They feel free to investigate and arrive at conclusions without fear of making a mistake. We believe the program should offer opportunities for exposure to a large variety of learning. Activities range from total class involvement to tailored individual projects. The child is an active, talkative explorer interacting with peers and teachers. The learning process is enhanced by interest centers consisting...
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...Name: Xavier Saunders Subject: English Topic: “Should parents control the lives of their teenage children” Good morning teachers and students of the Basseterre High School. I wish to take this opportunity to share my position on the following question, should parents control the lives of their teenage children? It is most important that parents should have a very integral part in their children lives to guide and to mould them so that they can become respectful and loyal human being in society. As the bible teaches us as parents “we should train up our children in the way they should grow that when they are old they will not depart from it” (it meaning what they where thought as children growing up). To be respectful of other, as they are of themselves, be patient, forgiving, kind, loving, thoughtful. Our society does not like unruly nor disrespectful children. They do not fit into society when they are misbehaved and become delinquent children. They will be seen as trouble makers and as such do not fit well into society. It is very vital for parents to control the lives of their children. Parents need to help them to develop good decision making skills and to provide security both physically and emotionally. Parents are obligated to provide food, clothing and shelter for their teenage children. Therefore, if parents are the ones providing the necessities of life they should have full control over their children lives as teenagers. Teenagers are very dependent...
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...Alex Levy Mod 3 English 7/8 Ms. Herbst class College essay In my religion the people of the congregation believe that when you turn 13 and become Barmitzbad you take the step from being a child to adulthood. As much as I believe in it is not entirely true because you don’t experience life at 13. I had become a man spiritually but when I turned 18 everything became vigorous and challenging. Every thing changes from rainbows to somber in a blink of an eye. I didn’t have the same freedom as I once did. I had more responsibilities and needed to pull my weight around. You could say I was technically on my own because my parents wanted a performance on my behalf and the ability to respond to any type of problem they needed for me to solve. If I didn’t answer to them it would mean a loss of capital on my part, which hurt me on the weekends. I needed to be my parent’s solution to my parent’s problems and as time went on they wanted more and more. I was an athlete/ driver/ business man/ babysitter/ student. All this things were done on a daily basis. I wake up everyday for school at 7 and attend all my classes and work as hard as I can. When I finish school I have practice with the varsity soccer team for 2 hours. We run, play, and work relentlessly to stay in shape and become better players. After I am done with my day in school I rush to my sister school and pick her up and take her home to eat. Depending on the day if my sister is scheduled to have any after school activities...
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...The Teenager Clarissa is a 16 year old, confidant, proud, empathetic, teenager, who enjoys the companionship of friends and has no worries. She comes from a very traditional family, who lived the simple quiet life, where nothing ever went wrong, she never heard arguments, or fights. She lived in a peaceful home and her parents lead her through the Christian lifestyle. At the age of 11 she was diagnosed with Leukemia. It was a big shock to her and her family. She began to go through extensive therapies and radiation treatments, it put her family through so much turmoil, stress, and financial binds and she quickly seen how her parent’s beliefs disappeared. She then questioned, why? “Why is this happening to me and why did you choose me and my family to go through this pain?” Her parents quit going to church and they had no time to gather as a family anymore. Everyone was going every which way. “Not only was I falling apart, my family is falling apart!” “I lost total faith in everything I ever believed in.” Her mother tried her best to keep things together, but all Clarissa saw was hurt, pain, and suffering. She became blaming herself for all the pain and heartache she felt she caused her parents. After 2 years of hospital visits and doctors there was finally a breakthrough. She became strong and accepted the fact she had and illness and became optimistic. She then noticed that whatever vibe she put off rubbed off on her parents, who then became positive and “alive”...
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...Lab #3 Partnership - Engaging Families I attended at two parent workshops the first one was at my daughter's school, it was about “ Bullying - How to identify it and make it stop” The person who talked about the topic was from “ Austin Child Guidance Center” her name is Kelley Roberts. She began sharing information about: talk to your child about bullying and how parents can prepare to talk with their children as they consider how they will handle their children's questions and emotions. They can also decide which information they want to give their children about bullying, and how parents should be willing to listening, believing, giving support, being patient, providing information and exploring options for intervention strategies. While she was giving information about the topic she asked questions to parents and they respond saying the answers, for example she asked questions like “If you see someone bullying another person how can you help?” someone said “ Tell my child to stop doing that” and the Kelly asked “How can you help?” another parent raided her hand and said “ Don’t enjoy bullying” and another parent said “ Harassers like to do it in front of others is more fun this way. If you ignore harassment and you don’t join it proves that bullying is not fun”. The last topic was “ Notifying the school about a bullying incident-using a template letter” When your child is a target of bullying, it is important to document the events and develop a record, or history,...
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...Texa‘ Time‘ 09 NOV 2015 Texas vs. Mary Beth Supreme Court Case By DHRUV PEECHARA Texas vs. Mary Smith Supreme Court Case In 1984 the american flag was burned during a protest by Mary Smith. Mary Smith is considered a terrorist by the state of Texas because she said that she wanted to destroy the beliefs of all Americans right before dshe destroyed the flag. Texas wants to press charges against her the court states that Mary Smith is innocent because she didnt hurt any people, so she wasnt convicted of anything. The first amendment Freedom of speech and Press protects her. The witnesses of the flag burning offended many people, and also one person buried the remains of the flag in the backyard,and since he wasnt hurt physically no charges were pressed. International Moose Count Underway By BOB O’BOBSTON The UN-sponsored International Moose Census got off to a flying start today with hopes for an increase in the worldwide moose population compared to last year’s disapointing figures. Among the traditional early reporters were Egypt, returning figures of six moose, a twenty percent increase on 2011’s figures of five, and Uruguay whose moose population remains stable at eleven. According to Robbie McRobson, head of the UN Moose Preserva- tion Council, worldwide moose numbers are expected to grow markedly on last year due to the traditional moose strongholds of Canada and the United States, with the larger developing moose ecologies also poised ...
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...giving the girls in the family the middle name Ellen is a family tradition and carries on a legacy. I plan to carry on this tradition some day and give it that same love past generations have. It was December 9, 2000, and my mother had been laboring with me since the night before. Once I was born it was the time to tell the doctors what I would be called. From the beginning of the pregnancy, my mother knew she wanted to carry on the middle name Ellen. Ellen means “Light, Torch, Bright” and originates from the Greeks. Previous holders of this name were my great great grandma, Sarah Ellen, my grandmother, Mary Ellen, and my mom, Denise Ellen. Personally, I have never really thought much about my middle name but now, I see that it’s not just any ole name. It’s a name with great meaning and love behind it as...
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...Name: Bradley Johnson Course Title: Business Ethics Course Time: Mondays; 420pm - 7pm Titles of Articles: “Chesapeake council to vote on whether condemnation can be used to take land for Elbow Road” and “Chesapeake council Oks plan to use eminent domain for road widening” Theories: Kantian Ethics and Libertarian Justice ODU Honor Pledge: "I pledge to support the Honor System of Old Dominion University. I will refrain from any form of academic dishonesty or deception, such as cheating or plagiarism. I am aware that as a member of the academic community it is my responsibility to turn in all suspected violations of the Honor Code. I will report to a hearing if summoned." Signature: ____________________________________________________________ Have you ever driven down a two-lane road where there are deep ditches on both sides with no shoulders and the lanes are only separated by a few inches? In Chesapeake, Virginia, we have one of those aforementioned roads and it’s known as Elbow Road. It’s very dangerous road to drive on, and you can wreck if you are not paying attention. Mary Beth Gahan reported on July 22nd that the city of Chesapeake has had a plan in place to widen Elbow Road from the Centerville Turnpike to the Virginia Beach line for awhile now. Around 2.2 million dollars has been budgeted for this project, and the city predicts for it be done in 2016. (Gahan). Gahan explained that in order to start the project of widening Elbow Road, the city of Chesapeake...
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...the offenders would be suspended. This lead to 2 students Mary Beth Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt to be sent home two days in a row and then not attending school until their protest was over which leads to the student suing the school with their parents help for breaching their first amendments rights. This lead to the case being discharged by the district court as they found the actions by the school allowed as they upheld the school's rules. E. is it a breach of a student's first amendment right to ban the use of armbands in public school that they are using to peacefully protest. F. The court ruled that the students are allowed to wear the armbands because for it to be banned it was deemed that the school officials would have to be able to prove that the actions of the students would “materially and substantially interfere” with the school proceedings. The court ruled with Tinker because the school banned the armbands because of a fear of it causing problems rather than it actually causing a disturbance in the school. G.the court case is significant because it established that though students rights can be limited in school the school cannot ban things because it showed that students will not always have their freedom of speech barred as long as it does not interrupt the normal school proceedings or cause danger in the school. C. Texas v. Johnson (1989) D. Texas v. Johnson deals with a man named Gregory Lee Johnson burning a American flag in front of the Dallas city hall in...
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...First Amendment Research Paper: Freedom of Speech During the time the Constitution was being written, freedom of speech was mainly focused on political speech. People wanted the opportunity to express their ideas and opinions about the government without being reprimanded or unheard. People feared that if the government was able to censor unfavorable viewpoints, they would eventually form a politically powerful population and oppress those who did not share the same mindset. Along with concerns about political speech, freedom of religious speech was a common desire. Previous incidents in English and Colonial history had occurred where certain religious views were prohibited and the people wanted to make sure that they were safe from the government’s restrictions. During his speech to the First Congress on June 8, 1789, James Madison proposed the Freedom of Speech idea to congress. He included several amendments that specifically addressed the concerns of Anti-Federalists that certain rights were not strongly protected by the Constitution. Madison said in his speech, “The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments.” Congress agreed with this idea and it became part of the first amendment. Madison continued with, “No state shall violate the equal rights of conscience, or of the press.” Congress did not like this and thought that only the federal government should be prohibited from restricting certain rights,...
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...(possibly) the school. This is understandable. They only wanted was best for the students. Although they are doing this for the best for the students, isn’t this a little restricting? Yeah sure, they don’t want the students to form a riot, but not allowing them to express their feelings from the war by not letting them wear arm bands, worse case not allowing them to return until they didn’t wear it? That’s the reason why the case was started in the first place. This could be avoided if they were allowed to wear the armbands in school…to a certain extent that is. Besides, this could be the exact reason why a riot might form, the restrictions is causing a stressful strain to the students and couldn’t take much more of it. In 1965, 3 students Mary Beth and John Tinkers and one other student in Des Moines, Iowa decided to wear black arm bands to school in representation of mourning the dead and protest the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was a military conflict fought primarily in the Southern Vietnam in the year between 1959 and 1975, the Vietnam War cost the United States 58,000 lives, 350...
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...CHAPTER 3: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1 Why do some people pronounce SQL as “sequel”? Ans: Because of its naming history, SQL is developed from SEQUEL language, so some people pronounce SQL as “sequel”. 2 Why are the manipulation statements of SQL more widely used than the definition and control statements? Ans: Because only the database administrator uses the definition and control statements, while power users and analysts, who are the majority, use the manipulation statements. 3 Is the SQL standard supported in whole or in part? Briefly explain. Ans: The SQL standard is supported in part. Because of the size of the previous standard SQL-92 (contains more than 600 pages) and the current SQL: 1999 standard (contains more than 2,100 pages), there are multiple levels that can be supported. No vendor supports the entire SQL-92 standard now. Most vendors support a super/subset of the standard. With the new SQL: 1999 standard, vendor implementation will likely be more fragmented because of the size and scope of the standard. 4 How many levels of conformance does the SQL-92 standard have? Ans: The SQL-92 specification contained three levels: Entry SQL, Intermediate SQL, and Full SQL. Unfortunately, no vendor claimed conformance beyond Entry SQL although most vendors implemented some features in the higher SQL levels as well as providing proprietary SQL extensions. 5 How many levels of conformance do the SQL: 1999 standard have? Ans: The SQL: 1999 standard contains a single level of conformance...
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...ENGLISH 121 Paper #2 Higher Education Submitted by Kenneth Jones Paper submitted to Professor: David Bushelle KENNETH JONES PROFESSOR: DAVID BUSHELLE ENGLISH 121 HIGHER EDUCATION Should a High School Graduate seek a higher education? If so what kind or type, for some years now it has been a lot of controversy on why should every high school graduate go to a college or university. What about trade school or apprenticeships at a company. Students who enter the workforce immediately upon high school graduation now need at least the same level of skills and knowledge as students entering college, as both universities and employers seek the same core abilities. We could trace higher education back to the sixth century B.C. Even then they taught skills to live by not thing that a person would not use in his or her life time. Here is a brief history on Higher Education that I found very interesting I hope you do too. “The oldest institutions of higher (college or university) education were started on the island of Cos, Greece, in about the sixth century B.C. These schools primarily taught medicine but also covered topics concerning the nature of humanity and the universe. A group called the Pythagoreans, who were followers of the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras (c. 580–500 B.C.), started the first schools of higher education in Italy. They taught philosophy and math in Greek. The great Greek philosophers Socrates (470–399 B.C.), Plato...
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