Narcissistic parents

Yeah, right it’s one of my dad’s favorite phrases. I have rebelled against my parents many times, but this time I am serious. Chaos continued, “ You, Prometheus, are the final fate after you are of age your word will be law, but until then your mind and body are both still mine to command don’t you dare forget that now go back to practice…

supervisor, but even though they come from very different walks of life, their differences bring them as close as their similarities do. From the beginning, Lee and Abra seem very different indeed. Lee is much, much older than Abra, and his parents are from China. A reader would not expect these two to even cross paths, especially because each character’s backstory is so different from the other. The consequences of Lee’s birth are…

my life. In 1997, my parents had decided that they couldn’t take care of two children at the same time, so they sent Nav to India when I was a month old and he was a year old. As a baby or even growing up into my toddler years I don’t recall Nav’s name even being brought up, neither did anyone mention that I had a brother. The drive to the airport seemed very long. As a three year old all I could think about was who is replacing me and why. We got to the airport. My parents went running…

the U.S Supreme Court legalized gay marriage on all fifty states. Now the gay community is looking to start a family by adopting a child. On like most heterosexual parents, gay parents chose to become parents the children for them was not an accident they were a blessing. Gay parents bring something to the table that straight parents might not, and that is motivation and commitment. But most of all they are involved with the child. They want the child to know that…

Pain. The feeling is more than I could bare. A quick intake of breath and my lungs fill with steam. A squeal escapes; it is not much of a noise. My arm covers my face, and I run. I run from our small kitchen to our living room. Dad is on the couch and looks up when I run into the room. The pain is too much to even to make the smallest of noises. I run in my mouth open and top half of me soaking. He rises quickly and pulls me to the stairs and calls for mom. “Ronae, get down here now.” He says…

“I was embarrassed of my home because of the condition it was in. My parents did not have jobs. My mom tried to sell her artwork in art shows. The only money they received was through my father’s fund granted to my mother after he committed suicide so that she could take care of me. My life was not one depicted by the Brady Bunch, it was definitely different and bizarre. It was colorful.” At first glance, you may deem my mother careless or too free in spirit. Her nature has been culminated by…

The word father ideally has many definitions that come from both the dictionary and people in general. Just like any other parent or family member every person has a different opinion of what this word truly means from their own perspective based on their life experiences. However, the definition of a good father has is generally something everyone can agree on. In simple terms the “good father” is the foundation for family, one who originates, guards, and provides. The leader, source of…

Fifty percent of marriages in the Unites States end in divorce. Researchers continue to study how it negatively effects the children involved. Some assume that children do not endure symptoms, or will not as long as the parents split early enough in their lives. However, many consequences may occur, ranging with age, and parental dissolution can elicit long-lasting ramifications to a child’s well-being. Even children under a year old show symptoms in response to parental divorce. The most…

Wiesel becomes very lost and distant without his father similar to how a parent feels after the lose of a child. Furthermore, Wiesel makes known his life is meaningless without his father by not including anything about his life in the concentration camp from the time of his father’s death until liberation. Reflecting upon the…

teeth. Once at school, she went through the same old classes, the same route home and the same boring homework, to the same yelling at home. Emily thought it was exhausting. She read somewhere that humans like routines, but she hated them. Her parents loved them as it seemed to her. Today was a little bit unusual for Emily.…