How to Raise a Child When I was still a child my role model was my father; he still is actually. He used to take me with him when he had a job at one of his rental houses, he disciplined me when need be, and he was always nice to everyone. That is the kind of father I want to be. Amy Chua’s, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,” and Hanna Rosin’s “Mother Inferior?” are two articles describing how a parent should raise his or her child.…
To complete my final exam project, I decided to read Terry McMillan’s book, Mama. For a while, I procrastinated about reading this book, but once I started reading, I didn’t stop until I was finished. The book was so vividly descriptive, that I could see the images in my mind. In the story, three main concepts were well represented Mate Selection, Heterosexual Cohabitation, and Divorce.…
Carol Berkin, the author of Revolutionary Mothers, informs us in her book about obstacles, and conflicts that women from previous centuries encounter. This book pinpoints some changes in history that have given women the rights they have today. Carol Berkin starts off her book on how life was in the 16th and 17th century for women. They focused on their households, and families. They left the intellectual issues, and education up to the men.…
Are the so-called choices for women who want to become mothers really choices at all? In the documentary The Mommy Mystique: The Anxiety of Modern Motherhood, the women Judith Warner (author) speaks to, in her book, are middle and upper class who grew up in the 1970’s, the first generation to go to college and graduate school in percentages that match their counterparts. Women who grew up with feminist eloquence, if not part of that movement, they were accustomed to modern standards for women’s equality. Women who aspired to have careers.…
The Change of Roles in Society In the Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by D.T. Niane, the women are not hidden behind their husbands because they play an important role in society, as a mother is to her child. The power of motherhood and devotion to family and culture allows them to remain empowered. As opposed to being submissive to their husbands like women in the Muslim society. In the Malinke society, men and women are equal.…
“The One Best Way:” Marketing Breast Milk In the 1920s, despite the dramatic decline breastfeeding rates in Canada, Dr. Helen MacMurchy, the head of the Division of Child Welfare, attempted to establish breastfeeding as the “Canadian way.” In The Canadian Mother’s Book, MacMurchy promoted, under her governmental title, breastfeeding as “the one best way” to feed infants. Although this message had been ignored with the medicalization of infant birth and feeding practices in the mid-twentieth century, Canadian women, doctors, government officials, scientists and groups, like the La Leche League (LLL), began returning the importance of breastfeeding in marketing breast milk. Beginning in 1978, the Canadian government, in collaboration with LLL…
Mothers resistance can possibly derive from the fear of the daughter’s behavior in which she can’t not co-regulate or control because of the mom, it’s simpler to submit to the client’s tantrums and problem-solve the problem instead of guiding her through the process and setting boundaries and limitations to her behavior. In this case, it is easy to put judgment on the mother actions based on the history of services. I am the advocate for the child and I feel as if I should give the parent a reality check in terms of the purpose of our sessions. However, if done inconsiderately and unprofessionally it can potentially put the relationship with the client’s mother in jeopardy.…
The photograph, “The New Mothers”, by Sally Mann is not only a very contradicting photo, but is also viewed by many people to be a contradictory statement. The photograph appears contradictory because through this snap shot, Mann is stimulating the maturity of the children, and fostering the idea that all females will grow up to have a part in motherhood. Mann is challenging the global standpoint of femininity. It is an overall global view today, that whether you get married and then have children, or have children and then get married, most women will become a mother at some point in her life. Mann demonstrates several key elements in this photograph like the landscape, body language, focus, and the usage of props.…
Through the analysis of scholarly work, one can decipher that to be a slave meant to be a stranger in your own skin. Hence, when the African people were stripped of their identities and torn from their homeland, it created a rift in the connection with their own African heritage. Asphyxiating under the strong hold of oppression, the African community was unable to express their true customs in attempt to keep a connection with their homeland afloat. However, as black individuals began to break from the chains of slavery and reform their identities, the closer they inched toward the reconnection to their kin.…
Motherly Advice Take it or leave it, we don’t have a choice either way they are going to shove it in our ear until we hear it like a broken record. Sarah Kay, a very inspirational poet, and August Alsina, a phenomenal R&B artist, both demonstrate motherly advice but from different perspectives. Kay’s poem, If I Should Have a Daughter…, is towards her daughter she does not yet have while Alsina’s lyrics in Mama is about him taking his mother’s advice. A mother’s advice can always come in handy but that does not mean we are constantly going to use it. These two incredible writers express how mothers persistently tell their children to avoid trouble, stay true to yourself and most importantly live life.…
As I grew older, I never imagined becoming a mother at such a young age. When I was a child, I dreamed of finishing school, and going through all the motions that a young woman should, and of course, that involved attending prom, graduation, and college. When I was just seventeen years old, I found out that I was going to have a baby. So many things ran through my mind.…
The Dress The short story: ”The Dress” is written by Julia Darling in 2006. The story is about a mother living alone with her two daughters called Flora and Rachel. It tells about their tense relationship and how it all climaxes at the mother’s birthday party just because of a dress. Being a mother living alone with her family will never be easy.…
"War makes human virtues fatal, even to their possessor. " Bertolt Brecht questions the purpose of virtues during war in his play, Mother Courage and Her Children. While the play is set during the Thirty Years' War, Brecht suggests that during the German invasion of Poland, there is a lack of morality in society which is caused by the war. To convey the immoral effects of war, Brecht uses the journey of mother courage's cart in order to map the imminent loss of society's virtuousness during a war as society struggles to survive. Brecht uses the deterioration of the cart in order to suggest there is no place for virtues during war.…
The Ideal Mother A mother is arguably the most important factor in the well-being and development of a child. Children getting the constant love and nurturing a mother gives is crucial during the first few years of life, when the child is most impressionable. This being said, it is easier for a mother who stays at home with her children to offer the necessary amounts of love and care versus one who is working throughout the week. Mothers who choose to stay-at-home with their child rather than working has the opportunity to form a stronger bond with their child by spending more time together, be able to maintain a cleaner home with nicer meals consistently, and enjoy the appreciation that their child will give in the later years, knowing that…
Has anyone ever wished that someone in their family was different from who they really were or an entirely different person? I have. That person was my mother. Her work ethic, education goals, and child care skills were things that I wished were different. Although I have wished for my mother to be someone different, her care and love for my siblings and me helped us understand and love her better.…