Education and Feeling 200
Maybe I’m supposed to write about a happy feeling here or an angry feeling here. However, the only thing that comes to my mind is being scared. I am thinking of one situation that occurred when I was probably around Read More …
Poem 247
I’m Mexican-American and Southwest Detroit is my home.It’s full of beautiful black and brown people.It’s full of colorful murals.It’s full of lowriders.It’s full of rap, R&B, and Spanish music.It’s full of Mexican restaurants and stores.It’s full of schools and happy Read More …
Education 200
Education is an interesting thing, many aspects of education affect us as individuals, and many affect us all as a whole. My education was not the most formal way of education. I was homeschooled although homeschooled is a generous term. Read More …
Parenting Style 606
Which kind of parenting style (Annette Lareau) did your parents use with you? How do you think that impacted you? (Accomplishment of natural growth or concerted cultivation) When we were being taught the exact definitions of accomplishment of natural growth and Read More …
Parenting Style 910
Definitely “Accomplishment of natural growth.” My family has stayed within the middle-class (at least in recent years, maybe we teetered in the working-class). My brother and I were allowed to do kind of whatever, as long as we went outside Read More …
Parenting Style 845
My parents definitely used concerted cultivation as a parenting approach with my brother and me. We were both put into sports as toddlers, and had to choose our favorite to pursue for the rest of childhood. There was maybe one Read More …
Parenting Style 246
I think that my parents used the “concerted cultivation strategy” when raising me. I think that this honestly impacted me in a good way. I was never taught to disrespect authority, but I was always taught to question authority because Read More …
Parenting Style 200
I feel as if I have areas of both parenting styles within my upbringing for the concerted cultivation, I had activities that I was a part of. It felt a bit different because I was homeschooled so those were the Read More …
Family 290
I have no idea where I fit! My dad owns a really successful business, and so did my mom, but we weren’t overly rich and we didn’t have a mansion, but we had a nice house with a big backyard Read More …