The Importance Of Parenting In The Glass Castle

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Parenting isn’t all that great. According to Marisa de los Santos, author of Love Walked In;, “No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you’ve got, say “Oh, my gosh,” and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It’s not a question of choice.” (Bongiorno). In the memoir, of The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, the parents tend to stray away from the ‘normal parenting rules’. According to the Walls, being a parent means toparenting is leave ing your kids to fend for themselves, stealing from them, and letting them have the unlimited freedomletting them do whatever they want. The parents,; Rex and Rose Mary, do treat their kids with somewhat a low sense of decency. …show more content…

, mind the downfallsHowever, . iIf the children didn’tdidn’t learn these from those lessons, they would’ve ended have ended up like their parents. Their parents were, homeless in the streets of New York, unable to maintain jobs, settle down, or act like mature adults capable of raising children. Even though Rex and Rose Mary succeed in the ways they taught their children in a poor manner, the lessons were learned.but also failed as in how they followed through with the way they tried to In order. fFor Rex and Rose Mary to be a considered ‘good’ parents‘good parent’, they must work as a family to get what they want; meaning they must strive for the goal for what they want and apply themselves instead of ‘getting by’. They show their strength and will by saying it It is the Walls vs. the world. They turned their children into behaved, intelligent, and outgoing adults. Rex and Rose Mary teach their children the way of life through absurd lessons and experiences and experiences about how to become a successful, mature, well- behaved adult through self-reliance and

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