When you think about your family history and how far you can follow your family history back to the first time they arrived in the U.S you would be pretty amazed. When I start back to my family history on both of my parents side I can go as far back as my great-great grandparents on both sides. On my mom side her great grandmother was from a Caribbean island she later came to the U.S. because of my great-great grandfather wanted to live in Mississippi to work there to earn more money. Later my great grandfather and grandmother moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan with my grandfather who was from Michigan. My grandfather parents lived in the south when he was younger. But my grandfather’s great-great grandparents where slaves who were run a ways …show more content…
The other parenting style my mother also displayed was the authoritative style. For example she would ever so often she would tuck me in bed and read me bed time stories or other times she would watch TV shows or movies with me until I went to sleep at night. Even though I didn’t get both sides of parenting g from to different people I feel like my mother did the best job in her power. I feel like my mom was in the hard situation because she is a woman raising a young son all by her self-trying to teach me how to be a man. But also at times it was hard for because I would do little things such as get in fights in school or would do something so crazy. So I know for her as women she couldn’t really understand what I was doing. I feel like she played such a good mother and father that I will pick up some of here parenting styles.Growing up I was raised in a single parenting household with just me and my mom in the house. Being raised in a single parent house there are some pros and cons that come from being raised this way. My mom and dad like I said before never married the reason …show more content…
But my mom always had help from people around her that help raised me. I felt like the saying it takes a village to raise a child really fit my life. The reason being because if my mom couldn’t teach me something or come to my game, so her coworkers would I remember in high school it was so hard for her to come to my basketball games that people from her job would go and text her and tell her how I was doing in the game. Coming from this type of house hold and seeing how it was hard for my mom without a another parent in the house that I will try and not continue the cycle of not being there for my kids and their mother cause I feel like my mom would be upset if I’m not there for my kids.In some single parent households the sex talk can go smoothly and some can be very awkward especially since it was coming from my mom. When she gave me the sex talk it wasn’t awkward at all because she waited for me to get a certain age to really get in depth about sex. When I was nine I can remember my mom saying when you get older makes sure you wear condoms. She told me what it was for and when is the right time to do it and how I should go about it when it does come down to that time. She basically told me the basics of what to
...h conclusion about my struggles with my mother. Mothers (and fathers) do what they can with what they know. That is all. They believe that they are doing the right thing, and we as children must learn to appreciate that.
Being a parent is no easy job for a mother or a father in even the best of circumstances, in fact not only is it the hardest job one will ever do, it is also a job that is never done. Being a parent is not a nine to five job with nights and weekends off. Rather it is a twenty-four seven job until the day that you die. This is not to say that parenting does not have its rewards. Overall, most parents would probably be the first to tell you it is the best job and the most rewarding thing they have ever done in their lives. There are many types of parents and family situations and there is not one that is perfect or superior or right or wrong. However, a two-parent household does lend itself to many advantages
ago mothers would stay at home with their children while the father went to work
My mother has taught me early on that women can do anything men can do, but then again, she also never worked a day in her life. My father was always the strong hard working dad, he was a great example to my brother who is 2 years younger than me. My mother never really had a drive like the one I have in me, I strive for success for my four children and well she was always laid in bed demanding things from her bedside. What I remember about my childhood is how she would teach us how to clean and cook. My sisters and I would have to wake up every day before school just to clean the house and make breakfast, she taught us early on how to make tortillas, but the handmade ones because she would say that store bought were for lazy people.
Having grown up in a single parent home that was terribly dysfunctional, I can give firsthand accounts of what this type of environment was like. I can remember growing up with a strong mother who refused to show weakness. Which in hindsight, was not good at all for me in the long run. It led me to become very distant and uncaring towards others that I came in contact with. In some instances I now realize I was over compensating in relationships based upon the dysfunction in my single parent home life.
Raising a girl as a single father may be comparable to learning a foreign language—you may feel totally baffled for a while before you finally start to get a hang of it. Despite the challenges, being a single parent to your daughter may be one of the most rewarding jobs you ever take on. Learn to raise a girl as a single father by developing a relationship with your daughter and getting support. It can also help to develop a game-plan for running a household on your own, too.
Developing in single-parent families may be difficult, mostly when it comes to young children. Single-parent families can be defined as families where a parent lives with dependent children, either alone or in a larger household without a spouse or partner. With the divorce rates being as high as they are today, numerous children are growing up more and more in single-parent families. It is preferable for kids to live with both the mom and the dad happily married. However, there are several children who grow up in single-parent households who can still be well-adjusted children, teenagers, and adults.
Parenting is the practice of supporting and encouraging the physical, emotional, social and academic development of a child from birth to adult. Society says children should be raised in a two-parent family. Although, in most cases raising a child or children in a two-parent family is best, there are situations where children are better off living and being raised by one parent.
For many years, children growing up in a single parent family have been viewed as different. Being raised by only one parent seems impossible to many yet over the decades it has become more prevalent. In today’s society many children have grown up to become emotionally stable and successful whether they had one or two parents to show them the rocky path that life bestows upon all human beings. The problem lies in the difference of children raised by single parents versus children raised by both a mother and a father. Does a child need both parents? Does a young boy need a father figure around? Does the government provide help for single parents? What role do step-parents and step-siblings play? With much speculation, this topic has become a
After the divorce is finalized, the next economic issue that comes up is how a single parent is going to raise their child or children. Not all parents get remarried quickly after getting a divorce. They need some time to heal and relieve the stress because divorce can take up to six months and those are six stressful months. Also, not all single divorced parents have custody for only a few days out of the week or just a few months at a time, sometimes they have to raise them all by themselves. For this paper I will talk many about a single parent raising a children with full custody of them.
In this day and time it is common for children to be raised in a single parent households
Being a parent is no easy job for a mother or a father even in the best of circumstances, in fact, not only is it the hardest job one will ever do, it is also a job that is never done. Being a parent is not a nine to five job, with nights and weekends off. Rather it is a twenty-four seven job until the day that you die. This is not to say that parenting does not have its rewards. Overall, most parents would probably be the first to tell you it is the best job and the most rewarding thing they have ever done in their lives. There are many types of parents and family situations and there is not one that is perfect or superior or right or wrong. However, a two-parent household does lend itself to many advantages over the single-parent household. Usually two-parent families better equip children by providing a more stable environment of love, attention, affection, discipline, and responsibility than the single-parent household.
“There's a cultural bias against single parents; an assumption that these households are less than, incomplete, and children suffer as a consequence.” says Patricia Leavy, PhD Author of Blue and Method Meets Art Second Edition (A Conversation about Single Parenting: Challenging the Stereotypes,2016)
Even though the Census Bureau shown that single parent families are increase every year I did not want to be a static of not providing for my family but just another public assist person.
Single parenting is probably the toughest thing to do. I was 15-years-old when I met my daughter’s father. We met in Middle School, and we were in a relationship for 5 years. I had our daughter when I was a 19-year old senior in High school. My daughter’s father and I made the mutual decision to part ways due to a lot of complications in our relationship. Throughout the years, we’ve had many ups and downs. Our relationship was a roller coaster. My daughter’s father is still very much in her life, and we try our best to co-parent, but even though we co-parent, it is still very hard to do things on my own. Single parenting gets difficult at times and I never thought I’d be ‘one of those girls’ who has to do something like parenting alone, but here I am doing it, and there’s no other way I’d have it. I’m happy to be the mother of a very beautiful smart 3-year-old. I’m happy to be faced with challenges that have me pushing to do better and be better, as single mother.