The Responsibilities of Parenthood

The Responsibilities of Parenthood, In the Eyes of Scout Finch Scout Finch is a young girl but I believe her age says nothing about her new knowledge on parenthood. Taught by her responsible, wise, blue-blooded, noble father. Atticus teaches his children multiple lessons, by being the example on how they should act on certain situations during drastic times. Scout tends to listen to her father and respects his attributes as I do with my father. Atticus resembles him quite accurately, though my father has a more humorous side to him and isn’t quite as old. I admire his judgment as I know he admires mine, and I learn a lot from him. And hope to be half the man and father when it is my time in life to start my family of my very own. To elaborate I shall start off with Scout learning that with becoming a well-rounded, responsible parent one must be willing to be perspective or willing to hear both sides of a story on situations brought up by your children. Scout picked up on that one petty fast when Jem had returned from the Radley place to retrieve his shorts that got stuck on the fence. Jem came back but remained silent and emotional from the experience. Scout remembers what Atticus had advised her to do after their talk earlier about her getting into trouble at school. “As Atticus had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem’s skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley Place at two in the morning, my funeral would have been held the next afternoon. So I left Jem alone and tried not bother him.” Being the oldest in my family my parents expect this quality out of me, which with age I believe I have gained. My younger siblings (Andrea, Jimmy, and Amber) argue quite a bit as I do admittedly also. I try my best to get all their sides on the story to have a verdict on what is going to happen next, which is not always the easiest thing to do. Making me realize what stress my siblings and I put on my parents and what they have had to endure