Good Parenting In Robert Epstein's The Glass Castle

Parents usually have the best intentions – like protecting their children from life's hardships and preparing them for adulthood. However as with many other aspects of parenting, the results do not always match the intentions. Overprotective parents generally want to protect their children from harm, hurt, pain, failure, unhappiness, bad experiences, rejection, and disappointment (Lindsey 1). However, parents must realize that overprotective parenting has certain side effects. Parents believe that they are doing a favor for their children by keeping them safe without realizing that this parenting style can have severe effects on children such as robbing children of the essential life skills that they need in order to have a healthy

In the memoir “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls, the parenting style Rex and Rosemary Walls most exemplified was permissive parenting, their children were rarely disciplined, took a friend like role with them, and avoided confrontation with their children.

What is the secret of perfect parenting ? Numerous parents may have different assumptions , of what precisely are the ideal goals to raise a child are. The Walls’s family had a unique perspective on “parenting”. Several readers may agree they had various flaws, by not giving their children the basic needs . Though despite all of their flaws , they did teach their kids valuable life lessons and self love.

The parents from the glass castle Rose Mary and Rex Wall were quite different parents. They weren't quite clean, and having a job to Rexs Walls is gamble and make money. But children were children wanted a normal life so when there with friends they didn’t really mention their life styles. There irresponsibility of the parents and the children wanting to take care of themselves led to the children breaking apart from their parents early.

In nearly every family-oriented sitcom, one of the main troubles of the parents is, in fact, parenting. For example, in the hit 90’s TV show Full House, Danny Tanner is a single father of three, left to be a lone parent by the death of his wife. And yet he has two other men helping him raise his children, as being an only parent is incredibly difficult. Being a good parental figure is a challenge for every individual who attempts it.

What is the secret of perfect parenting ? As many people , may have different opinions , of what precisely are the ideal goals , challenges and techniques to raise a child are. The Walls’s family had a unique perspective on “parenting”. As many people may agree they had various flaws. By not given their children the basic needs .Despite all of their flaws , they did teach their kids valuable life lesson and self love.

Good parenting skills are essential to put children on the right track. Whether it’s being there when they’re going through a rough time in life or helping with picking out the right college, their impact is huge on their children’s life, for the moment at hand and for

Not all people raise children the same way. Each parent has his or her own method of preparing a child for the world. In the article “What Makes a Good Parent,” author Robert Epstein lays out ten criteria for “good” parents. In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Walls’s parents display techniques that initially seem detrimental to her life. However, throughout the memoir, Walls’s mother and father demonstrate Epstein’s good parenting qualities by promoting self-sufficiency and providing educational opportunities in unique ways.

Jeannette’s father Rex Walls resembled a dreamer who always found new projects that would surely make the family money. Rex would fill his kids’ minds with imagination of a better life to distraction them from their poverty. “When dad wasn’t telling us about the amazing things he had done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do,” (25). The Walls kids, especially Jeannette, looked at her father as a hero. She was captivated by his extensive knowledge of the world. Although Jeannette seems to find a way to put her father in a positive light, he

This article is about the way parents raised their children and they still end up in therapy. Being a parent is the hard there are no instruction and we all want to do a better job than our parents and grandparents. You can find so much research on how you should raise your child and the style of discipline to use so that they can grow up a happy and productive member of society. According to Donald Winnicott,” the influential English pediatrician and pediatrician and child psychiatrist, was that you didn’t have to be a perfect mother to raise a well-adjusted kid. “ (The Atlantic 2011-07).

The parental role takes on a substantial amount of responsibilities; especially being a single parent with five kids. However, the absence of Betty exposed an adverse environment for her children. Child behavior patterns are linked with high rankings of parental stress and depressive symptoms (Einfeld et al., 2013). Therefore, by taking these courses, Betty can understand the deficits that affect their children. Instead, she can learn to become a nurturing parent that can provide a safe and encouraging

Parenting one of the most important and rewarding task for a human being according to almost every person that has experienced the “excitement and joy” of having a child, I put in quotations the “joy and excitement” because it’s not in reality always like that. Definitely everyone has their own style and liberty to educate their children however they feel will make their children acceptable to society. There are millions of different parenting styles in the U.S., now let’s imagine the billions of different parenting styles in the world. Pamela Druckerman , the author the article “Why French Parents Are Superior” analyzes two parenting styles that she personally experience, Druckerman makes a clear point on how this two parenting style differentiate

In the recent years, There has a significant work and studies in the field of parenting and raising children. Many social workers and researchers had been putting a lot of efforts and conducting plenty of studies to find the best methods for parents to raise happy successful kids. Today’s fast paced life and the long work hours had left parents with very little time for their children. However, studies have shown the many negative effects on the kids’ personality and how important it is for caregivers to be with their kids and nurture them. Alice Sterling Honig in her article Raising Happy Achieving Children in the New Millennium talked about how it is a crucial matter for parents to spend enough time with their children, especially in their early years. Communication between children and parents is also very important, although many parents don’t understand that. For instance, when a kid does something wrong parents should talk about why did he do it and why it is wrong, not just send him to his room or spank him. Teaching toddlers and preschoolers that are still discovering the world around them can very challenging, that’s why parents need to have a lot of patience while dealing with little kids, and help them learn right from wrong. Parenting is not about how to be perfect, there is no such thing as a perfect parent or the perfect kid, there will be mistakes from both sides. Therefore caregivers need to focus on how to teach morals and values to their kids, show them

While I am grateful to be independent and self-sufficient today, I don’t want my children having the same worries I had as a child. I don’t want them wondering if they are loved, wanted, or just in the way. That is why I work hard to be an authoritative parent. I want my children to know that their voices are heard and that I care. Jane Brooks explains how children of authoritative parents are “self-reliant and self-confident and explored their worlds with excitement and pleasure.” (Brooks, 2013, p. 101) These are the traits that I can only hope to instill in my children through my parenting

One of the common myths of becoming a parent is that “good parents are perfect people who have their lives completely figured out”. This is a myth because parents are human beings and no one is perfect, for we tend to make a lot of mistakes as human beings. For instance, a person with five kids is still not consider to be prepared or perfect just because they’ve had experience, they often find themselves making mistakes still but it’s how they recover from the mistake and take it as a lesson learned that not only makes them a well-rounded individual but a suitable parent.