Stay-at-home dad

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” In the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, It shows the difficulty and challenges one can experience of moving around a lot. Moving for Jeannette was not just hard physically but also really hard mentally. While there is maybe only a few couple things that is a little bit familiar between Jeannette and I there is this one thing that really makes her character connected to me, and that one thing is…

write P” so I wort my name down for her. But Jaelee said she can’t do it and lost interest and wanted to do something else. Jaelee and I went out in the playground and I watched her play on the slide and run around and have fun. Jaelee wanted me to stay next to her the whole time and while we were walking around I noticed a sign that read “Germ Fighter Club”. I asked Jaelee if she could read the sign she said no, so I asked her if I point at a letter could she tell what letter it was, she said…

my lunch. “I packed your favorite aphids from that tree down the street.” We lived in a small in a small house in the forest. I was an only ladybug; I had no siblings. “Now get going. Your dad is waiting in the car.” I waved goodbye to my mom and got in my dad’s car. “Ready for your first day bugger” My dad said as I…

I have lived in little towns my whole life, but for a change I went to a large city. It was an experience I will never forget. My dad is in the military, and early in the year he got told he would be working at the Pentagon. Because of this, my dad moved into DC. My mom and dad have been divorced and with my mom, we hardly ever went in the city. These very few times I did go in a city though, I did not like it very much. Going to my dad’s for the summer changed my mind about the city though.…

all hours of the night to feed, burp, change, and sing the baby to sleep. The setting takes us into the home of a young mother. The lights are…

Katrina, by Lauren Tarshis, is a historical fiction book. This book is about a kid named Barry who lives in New Orleans with his mom, dad and little sister Cleo. In the beginning of the book Barry was showing his friend Jay the picture of a superhero he created to win a contest, but they were interrupted by Barry’s dad and told him to pack, they were moving out of their home town because there was going to be a big hurricane. As they were on the highway to get out of town Barry’s little sister…

but from indomitable will”. This quote really helped me as I struggled severely when entering the United States from Japan. I immigrated to the United States at 15 with my family; my dad had got offered a better paying factory job. At first I was really upset to leave my friends and family who were in Japan, but my dad promised me that the United States would present us with the adventures of a lifetime. To excite me even further, he mentioned that we would be residing in Hollywood which was one…

impacted the ways in which families function on a daily basis. But what if a family only has one parent; do gender norms extend to them? Yes. It is common to see gender norms within single parent families in society. Gender norms expect women to stay at home and men to go out into the workplace as stated above, but these gender norms are slowly starting to shift due to the fact that society is slowly shifting from a patriarchy society to a society that is more equal when it comes to gender…

helping him secretively and loves him more than anything, Mom appears as an antagonist for most of the novel. As readers are analyzing Mom through Oskar’s perspective, they are provided with limited information of a boy in depression after losing his Dad. I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up. Even though I knew I shouldn’t, I gave myself a…

pounding out of my chest! My dad would always remind me “You just have to breath and stay calm then aim at the front shoulder and squeeze the trigger.” I would always live by this because so many older and wiser men have told me the same thing that have killed monster bucks in their lifetime. I actually just got to where I would go hunting because the noise of the guns would hurt my ears and I would just always sit at home and never get to feel the rush that I feel…