Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Eleanor and Park ~ Pre-Reading



          
         In life, people have their family.  A lot of families now are very different.  You could have a dad, or a mom, or a dad and a mom, or each of the same ones, maybe you might be adopted, but everyone has a family.  Usually the mom acts different than the dad on raising a child.  Moms are the ones who (in my definition) are the ones who are more the care takers and the more loving ones.  When I grew up I only have small memories of my parents being together and when they split up I stayed with my mom for most of my life and so I was used to her being the more caring one.  I feel that moms are the ones who will do pretty much everything.  Since they fed you when you were born and carried you for nine months I feel that the mom should be the more caretaker of the child.  But the dad should do the working.  For example, if something's broken he would be the one to fix it, if the grass needs mowing he would mow it.  He would also be a good example on how to act.  He would show his kids how to act properly and have manners and if he has a son he would show him how to be respectful to women.
           Some people may disagree with what I felt each parent should do because I came from a split family.  It was very hard because both parents had to start being caring and hardworking, they would have to do both roles.  And it was even worse when you get a step-parent because they would have to adjust to your lifestyle and you would have to adjust to theirs.  And when you've been living with parents spilt up and not married for a couple of years it gets hard when they get married to someone else because you don't know what it's like living with two parents.
        I feel that everyone has their own point of view about what should make up each parent and that nobody's going to have the same family as someone else because every single family is different.