Essays on Parent-child Relationship

Changes that occur during middle childhood and adolescence  The functional family is one that works and it works for everybody in the family, not only a portion of the people. It is not immaculate, but it is sufficient. It’s enough so that the individuals in...

Jonah Edelman, the co-founder and CEO of educational advocacy organization Stand for Children, stated that “The impact of poverty on a child’s academic achievement is significant and starts early”. Children growing up in poverty face challenges in cognitive and literary ability and are often academically...

Monsters are often thought to be hiding under the bed or in the closet when the lights are turned out. With no knowledge of what there is in the dark, society is traumatized. Parents teach their children, “do not get out of bed or the...

Respect is a fundamental virtue in the world. Respect for each other will avert any misunderstanding between individuals or communities. In the family, there are various reasons as to why children should strive to respect their parents. The Bible commands that children should value and...

Amy Tan is a prolific Asian American writer who has been successful in depicting the sentiments of children of Chinese immigrants to the United States. Most of her work focused on the relationship dynamics of mothers and daughters inspired by her own conflicted experiences with...

The differences between right and wrong must be learned early in childhood and adolescence, as this is vital for the development of moral agency (Recchia, Wainryb, Bourne, & Pasupathi, 2014). Over the years, numerous scientists have become interested in researching aspects of the development of...

It is estimated that three to four million children between the ages three and seventeen are at risk of exposure to domestic violence (“Effects”). While many spouses never get into such extreme cases of violence, many still have arguments that are filled with tension and...

Family is the basic social unit of the society which has greater influence on the social development of students. Children’s development of social skills is affected by the nature of their family and early educational experiences (NRC, 2001). Children who experience the security of loving...

Trials…errors…disappointment. Many adolescents fail to keep up with their parents’ expectations and as a result often distort their own reality. The book The Joy Luck Club, published in 1989 by Amy Tan, takes place around the 1980s. The setting alternates between San Francisco and China....

Family relationships are meaningful and complicated at the same time. Every relationship is different. One special relationship is between a father and his child. Poetry is an excellent way to portrait this relationship. Both Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Nights” and Theodore Roethke’s poem “My...

The relationship shared between Georg Bendemann and his father had always been unstable and toxic. Georg’s father had total control over him both psychologically and professionally up until the passing of the mother. As a result of the power held over Georg by his father,...

Relationship, it means two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected. The story Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography about a young boy named Elie and his father surviving the holocaust. Elie has an exclusive relationship with...

Sophie Caco, in Breath, Eyes, Memory, quotes her mother, “There’s a difference between what a person wants and what’s good for them” (72). In Edwidge Danticat’s novel, there is conflict between what Sophie wants and what her mother, Martine, believes is good for her. While...

Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud theorized that as a manifestation of the Oedipus Complex, people tend to choose partners who share physical features and personality traits with their opposite-sex parent. The bond between lovers can only be rivaled by the bond between parent and child; therefore, these...

Parental Involvement and Home School Collaboration is not uncommon from kindergarten to secondary school around the world. It is a very important way for parents and teachers to know more about the children no matter at home or in school. Based on the National PTA...