Baby Got Back

I didn’t think I was raising Gemma the right way however, the examiner stated that I was doing a great job and to keep doing what I was doing. The examiner thought that Gemma would adapt well to the preschool environment seeing that Gemma got along very well with the kids, and was unusually cooperative for her age. I found this most suprising because when Gemma was around 15 months old, she did not want me to leave her at the daycare. Seeing this at an early age, I would have thought Gemma…

Being a parent means making decisions. Decisions about baby names, schools, clothes, foods, rules, etc. Everyday brings new decisions and with those decisions are judgments from other people. Parents are scrutinized for every choice that they make when raising a child. One of these decisions is whether to bottle-feed using formula or to breast-feed a child. One side argues that breast milk is superior because it is natural. The other side argues that formula is just as beneficial as breast milk…

Looking down he said, "He doesn 't work here. Kind of drives me nuts sometimes, but..." "I heard that you oversized galoot!" Rich didn 't even respond "That 'll be $297.87." I paid rich while we could hear the back door close behind the old man and I was on my way. Masculinity and pieces about men are no different. Where do you fall on the scale? Are you young or old? Have you seen and experienced a lot versus a more limited exposure? Are you rugged and have…

setting, and finally recognition of a job well done is incorporated into daily routine to ensure a feeling of importance and value (Dittmann, 2005). These improvements have pushed America closer to bridging the generational divide two generations, baby boomers, and millennials, still, seem to be fighting out their…

Interview Paper For the gender/generational interview paper I chose to interview my father-in-law, Mike Andridge. Mike is part of Generation X, he is a health teacher at a middle school in Plymouth, MI, and a majority of his co-workers are women. For this reason, I chose to ask him many questions about gender in the workplace. The questions I chose to ask relate to the materials that we have read and discussed throughout the semester. It was very interesting to hear all of Mike’s views and…

Quint essentials of Motherhood Motherhood is a word beyond comprehension because it is a boon conferred on all species of feminine character to get impregnated and beget a child/offspring. But as far as the human beings are concerned, begetting a child should be a sacred incident, rather than a mere accident. The mother and the child bonding occurs even before the birth of an infant, as the child gets connected to the mother in the womb by means of an umbilical cord which assists in carrying…

tech-savvy time period. Both television and computers weren’t invented prior to the war but, as this time period was fully devoted to the soldiers, the war limited production. After the war, the baby boomer generation is when the development of television and computers took off (Farrell-Beck & Parsons pg. 136). The baby boomers first handedly experienced how technology was changing the world. McLuhan wrote in 1967 about his Big Three currently identifies how technology advances have shaped the…

The other day, my devoted mother texted me to assure my well-being was not at stake. Many may not see the significance of this text; however, my mother was derived from the Baby Boomer Generation, therefore she is not fond of the technology realm. I told her I wasn 't okay. She attempted to continue texting me despite her having odd formatting and grammatical errors in her text. Later, this led to a phone call and the last thing she told me was "Don 't forget to pray and I love you." It was…

It is Worth it to Dream “You can get what you want or you can just get old,” this is what Billy Joel once said, and it is still true. This can be interpreted as meaning that if someone doesn’t have any dreams or doesn’t go after them, there is no point in life. All someone would do without a dream is go through the motions and get old. Although sometimes it may be disappointing and seem like a waste of time, dreaming is worth it, they give people something to work for, having dream’s can…

“And all those things I didn 't say / Wrecking balls inside my brain” (9-10), are the regrets about the opportunities that you wasted or missed. “This is my fight song / Take back my life song / Prove I 'm alright song” (13-15). Life song is your past, don’t waste your time thinking about the past, worry about today which is you fight song and prove that you are successful, and have no regrets. “Losing friends and I 'm chasing…