My Ideal Wife
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Andrew Kringlen
Professor Sale
English 12
23 October, 2013
Ideal Wife Parents are the number one influence in a child’s life. They can shape a child’s future just by their demeanor and morals that they demonstrate. Children tend to watch their parents like a hawk and mimic their lifestyle. When parents demonstrate poor parenting, the child will most likely act as their parents do and be poor in character. Not only does this affect how well they are with their friends and in their work life, but this will affect how they treat their future spouse or even their children. Modeling good character goes beyond the immediate character a child displays and can often shape their child’s character for the rest of their life. Growing up with my parents caused my opinions of relationships to be skewed. My dad tended to work all day to where I rarely saw him, and my mom stayed at home to take care of us. The issue with this was my mom had no filter, so she complained about our father to us, and he wasn’t around to defend himself. Soon, my sister and I began to form negative opinions about our father. Looking back, not only did this cause tension between our father and us, but this was extremely unhealthy, gave me bad opinions of what a married relationship looks like, and what a parent/child relationship looks like. Kringlen 2
With this mindset already established quite firmly, it was hard for me to understand how the “perfect families” on TV interacted. I concluded that the TV families didn’t act anything like real families and that fantasy would never be close to achievable in a real life scenario. Around the end of my sophomore year in high school, I began regularly attending church since I could drive myself and not have to beg someone to drive me. Getting excited about what God had in store for me during a church camp, I read the Bible regularly. What didn’t click was that God calls us to live through Him, and by living through Him, a joyful
Andrew Kringlen
Professor Sale
English 12
23 October, 2013
Ideal Wife Parents are the number one influence in a child’s life. They can shape a child’s future just by their demeanor and morals that they demonstrate. Children tend to watch their parents like a hawk and mimic their lifestyle. When parents demonstrate poor parenting, the child will most likely act as their parents do and be poor in character. Not only does this affect how well they are with their friends and in their work life, but this will affect how they treat their future spouse or even their children. Modeling good character goes beyond the immediate character a child displays and can often shape their child’s character for the rest of their life. Growing up with my parents caused my opinions of relationships to be skewed. My dad tended to work all day to where I rarely saw him, and my mom stayed at home to take care of us. The issue with this was my mom had no filter, so she complained about our father to us, and he wasn’t around to defend himself. Soon, my sister and I began to form negative opinions about our father. Looking back, not only did this cause tension between our father and us, but this was extremely unhealthy, gave me bad opinions of what a married relationship looks like, and what a parent/child relationship looks like. Kringlen 2
With this mindset already established quite firmly, it was hard for me to understand how the “perfect families” on TV interacted. I concluded that the TV families didn’t act anything like real families and that fantasy would never be close to achievable in a real life scenario. Around the end of my sophomore year in high school, I began regularly attending church since I could drive myself and not have to beg someone to drive me. Getting excited about what God had in store for me during a church camp, I read the Bible regularly. What didn’t click was that God calls us to live through Him, and by living through Him, a joyful