Personal Narrative: How My Life Relates To Parenthood

How My Life Relates To Parenthood The Parenthood movie really taught me that family means everything. My family has not been normal for as long as I can remember. The typical “American family” includes a mom, dad, and kids. For me, this is not true. My mom and dad have been split up for as long as I can remember; this is why I would compare my family to the single mom family on Parenthood. We are not exactly the same, but from the families to choose from, they are the most relatable. I live with my mom who is a single mother, and my sister who is thirteen. My dad lives in Delmar and unlike the movie, we do see him very often and he does not treat us like the dad in Parenthood treated his children. Even though we aren’t all normal and do not have everything, we have each other and that is what’s most important. There were many different beliefs shown in the movie Parenthood. In Gill’s family a major belief was being yourself matters. I think Gill strongly believed that your childhood matters and it shapes you for the rest of your life. Since he did not think he had a good childhood, he wanted to make sure he gave his kids the best childhood they could possibly have. Gill’s …show more content…
Furthermore, our differences do not mean that we are doing something wrong just because it might be different than how someone else does something. For instance, Gill’s two year old son wanted to spend all of his time playing, while Gill’s sister’s two year old daughter wanted to learn all the time and never play like most two year olds do. Parenthood taught many life lessons and one of the most important was that family sticks together. In each family in the movie even when things weren’t going well at all they all remembered nothing is more important than family and they need to stick together to overcome whatever they’re going