The Importance Of Child Neglect

Child Neglect is VERY bad! Are You My Mother?, by P.D Eastman, is a book that displays a problem that is evident in the world today. Though this book may seem as if it lacks much meaning, it very well displays the issue of child neglect. Phycologytoday.com defines child neglect as: “a type of maltreatment related to the failure to provide needed, age-appropriate care.” Child neglect is a serious problem because there are those parents and guardians that do the minimal to provide and protect for their child that they are supposed to be caring for. Caring for a child is the most vital part of parenting. Without it, there is no love to show how important the child is. When a child feels uncared for, they will seek someplace else for the attention that they need. In order for a parent to child relationship to prosper, the parents will need provide supervision, organization, physical attention, and emotional attention. If the needs are not met, then the act of child neglect is becomes a

Deciphering the emotions of a baby is the only form of communication for sometime. In Eastman’s, Are You My Mother?, the baby bird initial did not have a mother to create an emotion connection with. While looking for his mother, he came across different objects and animals. Upon asking a cat, chicken, and a dog, it wasn 't until after he asked the cow that he began to get angry. Eastman does a great job of exaggerating that the anger of the baby bird by telling the reader, “The kitten and the hen were not his mother. The dog and the cow were not his mother” (33). Gradually, the anger that had boiled up inside of him made him even more determined to find his mother. If his mother would have been with him from the start, the baby bird would have been able to share his emotional moments with his mother, and she would have been able to attend to his every