Raising a Radical Child
In some situations, it appears as if a parent makes a carbon copy of themselves in their children. The children are raised with the traditions of the family and taught to behave a certain way, therefore believing and standing firmly behind their family’s values. Each family has their own ideas about what is right and wrong and see different ways of taking on tasks. As children grow up, they learn to like or dislike the same things their parents do. The way a parent feels about certain issues or treats certain people generally makes the children feel and act the same way. However, there are some exceptions. In some cases, the children may turn out to act in a way totally opposite of how they were raised or completely …show more content…
She was raised in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960’s, which had a huge impact on her family’s values in bringing her up. Although Skeeter was taught to be a perfect house wife and stay at home mother, she decided to become a writer and go to college to acquire a good education, which was completely rejecting her parents’ expectations of what Skeeter should be, which is shown where Skeeter says, “I’ll never be able to tell mother I want to be a writer. She’ll only turn it into yet another thing that separates me from the married girls” (Stockett 56). Just because she was raised a certain way did not mean she had to follow the path her parents had assumed she would take, which was an odd occurrence, especially for this time and …show more content…
She had big hair, was very tall, and not very girly. Skeeter’s mother continuously tried putting her into dresses, fixing her hair, and pressuring her into meeting the right man so that someday she could start a family. Skeeter differed from her peers in that she hated all of the dressing up and attending parties as a young girl, and later on in her life she went against the idea of settling down to start a family early. In the article, “When You and Your Child See Things Differently”, Pam Laricchia states, “And as different people, it’s unreasonable to expect that they will always see things exactly the same way we do.” In Jackson, Mississippi, it was normal for a woman to not further her education after high school and learn to be a stay at home mom early on in life. The young women were expected to tend to their children and take care of household responsibilities. Instead of following in her mother and every other woman in her life’s footsteps, Skeeter decided on a different path for herself. She went to college where she got a degree in writing, and fought her hardest to make a career out of it. When Skeeter returned home from college, she got a job at the local newspaper, even though it was a column on
In some situations, it appears as if a parent makes a carbon copy of themselves in their children. The children are raised with the traditions of the family and taught to behave a certain way, therefore believing and standing firmly behind their family’s values. Each family has their own ideas about what is right and wrong and see different ways of taking on tasks. As children grow up, they learn to like or dislike the same things their parents do. The way a parent feels about certain issues or treats certain people generally makes the children feel and act the same way. However, there are some exceptions. In some cases, the children may turn out to act in a way totally opposite of how they were raised or completely …show more content…
She was raised in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960’s, which had a huge impact on her family’s values in bringing her up. Although Skeeter was taught to be a perfect house wife and stay at home mother, she decided to become a writer and go to college to acquire a good education, which was completely rejecting her parents’ expectations of what Skeeter should be, which is shown where Skeeter says, “I’ll never be able to tell mother I want to be a writer. She’ll only turn it into yet another thing that separates me from the married girls” (Stockett 56). Just because she was raised a certain way did not mean she had to follow the path her parents had assumed she would take, which was an odd occurrence, especially for this time and …show more content…
She had big hair, was very tall, and not very girly. Skeeter’s mother continuously tried putting her into dresses, fixing her hair, and pressuring her into meeting the right man so that someday she could start a family. Skeeter differed from her peers in that she hated all of the dressing up and attending parties as a young girl, and later on in her life she went against the idea of settling down to start a family early. In the article, “When You and Your Child See Things Differently”, Pam Laricchia states, “And as different people, it’s unreasonable to expect that they will always see things exactly the same way we do.” In Jackson, Mississippi, it was normal for a woman to not further her education after high school and learn to be a stay at home mom early on in life. The young women were expected to tend to their children and take care of household responsibilities. Instead of following in her mother and every other woman in her life’s footsteps, Skeeter decided on a different path for herself. She went to college where she got a degree in writing, and fought her hardest to make a career out of it. When Skeeter returned home from college, she got a job at the local newspaper, even though it was a column on