Stay-at-home dad

In our last discussion, we discussed the power of the media and its ability to shape our views and perceptions. Through advertising, television programming, movies, and news reports, the media sets the norms for the societies in which we live. This is especially true in regard to gender role socialization. This process of becoming masculine or feminine begins early and continues throughout our lives. Through social learning, “boys and girls learn that certain activities and attitudes are…

totally opposite. I can now see why they were not able to stay together just by the way they run their households. The houses totally oppose each other in every single way except for one. I stay at both my mom’s and dad’s houses at different times, the rules are very different, my bedroom and the whole house are different, but the love and care I receive in both houses is very alike. I got to pick the custody as to where I live and when. My dad lives in Walcott and my mom lives in Davenport,…

When I was around 3-4 years old, my parents had the responsibility to balance work and family. My dad was a construction worker who worked a full time of 8 hours from Monday through Friday. It did not involve much traveling away from home. If he had to travel, it would only be to a place that is 2 hours away at the max and would still be able to make it back to his family the same day. My mom had a part-time job as an assistant in medical herbs and worked about 4-5 hours from Monday through…

It was a frosty winter day in the city of Appleton while my family and I were keeping warm while shooting hoops at the local YMCA. In the gym, my family grew tired and bored of playing basketball while my dad played his very best with no ease to his four kids including myself. After awhile my mom finally decided to take us down to the bouncy house that was hidden in the basement. Not many people knew about it. We found our way down the stairs to the basement of the YMCA, but then when we got…

are more regularly accepted in such roles as nurses and flight attendants. Also, stay at home dads are on the rise, and although they are not completely accepted, they are becoming more and more accepted as time passes. As far as woman being accepted in nontraditional roles go, although I said I think men have it worse, I by no means think that woman have it easy. The traditional role for woman is the nice stay at home wife, the prize wife. Almost an…

Gaston essay I feel at home when I see my dad, because years back he had cancer and the doctor had a slim chance of making. One day my mom came to pick me up from day-care and she was balling her eyes. She wouldn't tell my brother and I. When we got home I saw my dad on the couch, he had a shirt saying he was cancer free. That what makes me feel at home. In the short story “Gaston” by William Saroyan. Gaston feels at home when he see his family. Gaston takes his daughter to a coffee shop in…

wall you can because it is a once in a lifetime experience. The dad wasn't there to see his first walks and always was away from his son. His son started talking before he knew like as if he was gone away for so long he could not even now he was talking. His son said “I am going to be like you dad”. The son had a birthday he had turned 10. His dad gave him a ball and he ask his dad if he could play ball but the dad had work to do. The dad should be guilty for not letting his son have time with…

My Michigan Heroes They taught me that a positive attitude makes anything easier and that the harder you work the harder it is for others to bring you down. They are my Mom and Dad and they have impacted my life BIG TIME. My Mom and Dad are my Michigan Heroes because of what I have learned for them in my 13 years of being alive. My Mom taught me that hard work makes harder for others to bring you down. Tracie Gillum grow up on a poor farm in Homer, Michigan, the farm did not support her…

In the essays “Stay-at-Home Dads: A Practical Solution to the Career Woman’s Dilemma” by Glenn Sacks and “I Want A Wife” by Judy Brady, both a male and a female express their opinions on gender family issues and how it affects their lives. Glenn Sacks, is a columnist and a radio talk show host who focuses primarily on men’s and father issues. In the essay Sacks specifically voices his opinion on why and how the SAHD is beneficial to the family environment. Judy Brady wrote an essay, “I want a…

The place of women is a heavily debated issue today. The conservative side of the argument contests that the primary responsibility of women is to raise a family in the home, and they should be more concerned about their family than their career. The liberal argument believes that a woman is the same as a man and should be able to choose whether she pursues a career while being given the exact same opportunities and treatment as men in the workplace. In her article, “Why I Want a Wife,” Judy…