letting go 101
Makelly Nogueira
Kevin Kelroy
English 101-0CC
01 October 2013
The concern for safety in todays’ world is as strong as the desire for the best colleges for our children. We as parent, want the best and the best only for them. So if we love our sons and daughters so much, why do we fell the need to control them and their own surrounding space. Why would we monitored their every move instead of letting them grow as adult men and women they would like to be. We will try to demonstrate that by not letting go, parents only recreate a desire to seek the safest path for their heirs and heiresses. By becoming parents in a devastated world, we also develop an innate sense of love that cannot be destroyed. We will try to show that even if the author is right, the dangers of our society cannot be compared to previous one. And by making sure our children are as safe as they could be, we keep the hope that we are in control of their education and future at least.
In “Letting go”, Sam Schulman states that parents use too much control over their children by not letting them grow as the responsible adults they crave to be, by monitoring their every move. I do agree with the author that we overprotect our children more than ever before, certainly because we cannot look at our new generations and compare them to the care-free children in a care-free world, as it was after the World War II. Unconditional love is what makes parents worry so much. By accepting to be understanding friends instead of parents, and by using candor over rigidity, we are failing our children. Also, we all promised not to be as our parents, the guidance for our children should be stricter. Discipline in the USA is a constant fear. Child protective services are called if a child complains of his parents. Early in school, children are taught to dial 9-1-1 if parents to discipline them. Of course, I do not mean to correct with abuse but to do so to teach them right from wrong. Furthermore, we need to look at
Kevin Kelroy
English 101-0CC
01 October 2013
The concern for safety in todays’ world is as strong as the desire for the best colleges for our children. We as parent, want the best and the best only for them. So if we love our sons and daughters so much, why do we fell the need to control them and their own surrounding space. Why would we monitored their every move instead of letting them grow as adult men and women they would like to be. We will try to demonstrate that by not letting go, parents only recreate a desire to seek the safest path for their heirs and heiresses. By becoming parents in a devastated world, we also develop an innate sense of love that cannot be destroyed. We will try to show that even if the author is right, the dangers of our society cannot be compared to previous one. And by making sure our children are as safe as they could be, we keep the hope that we are in control of their education and future at least.
In “Letting go”, Sam Schulman states that parents use too much control over their children by not letting them grow as the responsible adults they crave to be, by monitoring their every move. I do agree with the author that we overprotect our children more than ever before, certainly because we cannot look at our new generations and compare them to the care-free children in a care-free world, as it was after the World War II. Unconditional love is what makes parents worry so much. By accepting to be understanding friends instead of parents, and by using candor over rigidity, we are failing our children. Also, we all promised not to be as our parents, the guidance for our children should be stricter. Discipline in the USA is a constant fear. Child protective services are called if a child complains of his parents. Early in school, children are taught to dial 9-1-1 if parents to discipline them. Of course, I do not mean to correct with abuse but to do so to teach them right from wrong. Furthermore, we need to look at