Stay-at-home dad

certain way that when you try to communicate with them and explain your point of view, they become very biased in terms of understanding your point of view as opposed to theirs. This is a great definition of my dad. When I try talking to him I feel as though my thoughts are not being heard. My dad has this mindset that I should put all of my energy into academics and make graduating from school my number one priority. Under normal circumstances this would be the norm in terms of expectations…

quite old enough to understand what was going on. We had lived in Arkansas and that’s where I was born. It was my parents, my three brothers, and myself. After they divorced my brothers, my mom, and I moved to Moore, Oklahoma. My mom would meet my dad halfway and my brothers and I stayed every other weekend in Arkansas. The first house we lived in when we moved to Moore, was with my mom's parents so she could get a job and figure everything out. After we moved out we lived in about 2 other…

my second home. For the past 12 years, more than half of the year was dedicated to the soccer fields. Day in and day out my father, also my coach for about 8 or so years, pushed me to my limits, but I am so thankful he did that for me. Playing soccer has taught me more than I thought it ever would. The two most important things soccer has taught me are to stay humble, and be confident. It was engraved into my mind because of my father. He would tell me before every practice or game, “stay…

Today I am interviewing Julienne Lapastina, which is my grandmother. She is an eighty-two-year-old woman born on April 8, 1934 and was born in Staten Island, Ney York. This is where she grew up with her stay at home mom, full time working dad, and her nine siblings; six sisters and three brothers. Julienne recently lost her husband of 20 years, and has since been widowed for about two years now. They got married on October 1, 1955 and were together up until the day her husband Frank Lapastina…

Diversity is something I never really thought about while reading books. I have never looked at the range of characters in a book. After this class I look at diversity in books a lot differently. Things stick out to me now. If a person cannot relate to a book they are going to have a completely different reaction to the book than someone who can connect to it. For example, if an upper class child who has traveled reads a book about a family who takes trips and goes on vacations, they will be…

the beginning of this states the immigrant presence was strong. The first group of immigrants to move here was Dutch they came here looking for beavers, but they settled because they saw potential in this land. Before Dutch move to here this was the home of Native American, the name they give to the land was Mannahatta (mean the land of many hills) but the Dutch named New Amsterdam. Nowadays New York is a big city full of immigrants, this people are from every corner of the world. People still…

long year. Once we moved my whole family had suffered negative experiences. In the beginning, we were adjusting to live in such a confined area. First, my sister was the lucky one. She was old enough to where she would stay at her friend’s house majority of the time but when she did stay at my aunts she slept on the couch. I cringed when she used to complain. I had to face more negative than positive. I slept on an air mattress on top of a cart. As soon as I would roll over, the air mattress…

of that small town until my mom told me that we would be going to see my Grandma. It was going to be the first time that she had come from Mexico after my grandfather passed away. Most of My mom’s siblings lived down there so my grandma was going to stay with them for a while. As we began to travel more I noticed that the scenery had begun to change, most of my hometown was surrounded by buildings, but as we got farther away I noticed how many more trees began to appear. As we passed…

and my dad was holding a large yellow folder in his hands. I looked at my mom and dad 's faces and they both looked like they had been crying since they both had red puffy eyes and did not seem too happy. As soon as they got into the car my dad turned to me and explained to me that the test results came back and she indeed was diagnosed with Huntington 's Disease and that there was no cure and that my mom would get sicker from here on out. It was really hard to see that because my mom’s dad also…

met his dad at age 29 and has vowed to not be that kind of father and to always be there and support his child. He struggles to sell bone density scanners and his family is struggling because of this. His wife leaves him and he chooses to take his son which seems to be the most important thing for him. In order to actually make money, he begins a prestigious internship where only one…