Parent-Teacher Association

When I was 3 years old I remember grabbing the mayonnaise jar and sticking my hand in there and just grabbing a spoonful of the mayo and while my mom was asleep, I would spread mayo all over my mom’s hair. We all did antics as little kids, because we didn’t know what we were doing, our brains were just developing. We couldn’t make out wrong from right, we had to be told our rights and wrongs. Our memories stored inside our brain are there for many reasons. Memories help us shape the kind of…

Kinship Project For my kinship assignment I decided to interview my mother Rebecca Andrews. She has done so many different things in her life and I decided she would be the perfect person to interview. Her parents are amazing people and raised her to the best of her ability. She grew up in a small town called Haleyville Oklahoma. This is the town she was born and raised. She grew up playing softball and cheering for her high school. She eventually went to cosmetology school where she became a…

in fights and get a week’s detentions and come back and be treasured by other guys, well the winner at least. While if girls got in a fight they would both be shunned and maybe even sent to out of school suspension for their parent to beat them even more. When a guy’s parents would’ve gotten a hug from his mom and a pat the back from his dad and of course the good old saying “Boys will be boys”. My favorite and this is awful was when a guy would cheat with a girl and would be looked upon for it.…

“It is you men who make war! We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?” -Bottome, Phyllis. In the film beats of No Nation a young boy by the name of Agu tends to turn to violence in his village in order for survival, a way for a new life and hope to reunite with his mother and sibling. The tragedy of Agu losing his father, brother, grandfather, and people of his…

mostly negative. My father’s role in my life was confusing for me as a child. From birth till the age of 5, I was very close to my father, I was a daddy’s girl. I remember doing everything with him and wanting to always make him happy. However, my parents separated when I was five due to his abuse of my mother. In fact, one of my first memories was my father physically attacking…

family problems at home. He came from low class family and a non-stable home were there was drama going on because his parents were indeed of money. Dennis R. Sanchez points out how Fabian home was not stable in the following way “There were disturbances in home life now. He argued with his parent. They argued with each other” (52). Basically the relationship between Fabian parents was not good because their…

difficult for the parent and child to interact in an affective manner. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, also known as PCIT, is a behavior program developed by Sheila Eyberg and other contributors. The purpose of PCIT is to decrease disruptive behaviors while increasing the parent-child relationship through interactions between parent and child (Nieter, Thornberry, & Brestan-Knight, 2013). PCIT is broken down into two components which include Child Directed Interaction (CDI) and Parent Directed…

Have you ever had an event or experience that has changed your life? Well, mine was nine years ago, when my little sister Daphne was born. This special event changed my life changed drastically. When my parents sat me down and explained to me that I was having a baby sister, I began to feel a little disappointed that I was not going to be the only child anymore. Being able to get all the attention 24/7 from all my family members was the only thing I ever wanted. As I had came to realization that…

night hid under the covers and cried myself to sleep, hoping things would go back to the way they use to be. I kept thinking about my little sister and how she and I would grow up without a father. I wasn 't sure how we would spend time with both our parents and who would we spend the holidays with. I wasn 't myself for a while, sometimes my mother would take me out to help me forget, at least for a little, however once we got to the place she would take me, usually the park, I would bust out…

The film ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’ features Gilbert Grape and his struggles to be responsible for his family’s well-being after his father hung himself in the basement. His father’s suicide had made his mother, Bonnie, become depressed and morbidly obese that she had not left the house in years. Gilbert has to take care of his seventeen year old mentally challenged brother, Arnie, who seems to have a knack of making troubles and causing scenes in town. This heartbreaking film exemplifies a…