Thursday, September 29, 2011
Step 3 question
In the article, "The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy," the women have had a lot of problems getting pregnant so they turn to specialists to help them. After getting pregnant, they find out that they are having twins or triplets but only want one. I came up with the question: is it morally right that woman who have had so much trouble getting pregnant get to choose to abort one baby over the other?
Friday, September 9, 2011
Is There A Thing As Too Much Love?
Gottlieb, Lori. "How to Land Your Kids in Therapy." The Atlantic. The Atlantic Monthly Group, Jul./Aug. 2011. Web. 8 Sept. 2011
Read this article
Lori Gottlieb, the author of, ‘How to Land Your Kid in Therapy” writes this article for one purpose and one purpose only: to tell parents to back off their kids. Throughout the article she interviews numerous authors, psychologists, and parents about doing too much for your children throughout their childhood. All of them agree that if you spoil or over-protect your child, they’ll be unhappy adults. Lori is a psychotherapist and seen a lot of unhappy adult patients that had an amazing upbringing. The main focus of this article is, if you keep your child from failing then they will never know the sense of accomplishment. One example she uses is a college student; if they have real-world issues, they will constantly call mommy or daddy for the solution. Then, as adults they will be faced with tough choices and will have no sense of what to do. Ann Hulbert, author of “Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children” explains that there is a lot of tension between parenting styles because no parent wants to be wrong. There are two perfect lines that sums this article up: “don’t hug your kids too much” and “When you are tempted to pet your child, remember that mother love is a dangerous instrument.”
The author’s point of view is tremendously significant to everyone because it’s about a lifelong debate and deals with issues people have dealt with forever. There are people who think children should have their own freedoms in life and others who feel they should be on top of everything their child is doing; the debate will be there forever because of different cultures, nationalities, upbringing, and values. The author is on the too much love means unhappy adulthood side of the debate. Lori writes this article to show parents that it’s factual that if you protect your child or children too much they could be unhappy adults and no one wants that for their children. Her reasons are clear for writing this article because she gives a lot of facts, real people interviews, professional inputs and even has a video about the so called “trophy kids.” Lori also says she is a new mother and saw a lot of different ways people were raising their own kids so she did this research and found out that protecting and loving your kids too much could drive them into therapy because they do not know how to handle problems the real world throws at them.
Read this article
Lori Gottlieb, the author of, ‘How to Land Your Kid in Therapy” writes this article for one purpose and one purpose only: to tell parents to back off their kids. Throughout the article she interviews numerous authors, psychologists, and parents about doing too much for your children throughout their childhood. All of them agree that if you spoil or over-protect your child, they’ll be unhappy adults. Lori is a psychotherapist and seen a lot of unhappy adult patients that had an amazing upbringing. The main focus of this article is, if you keep your child from failing then they will never know the sense of accomplishment. One example she uses is a college student; if they have real-world issues, they will constantly call mommy or daddy for the solution. Then, as adults they will be faced with tough choices and will have no sense of what to do. Ann Hulbert, author of “Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children” explains that there is a lot of tension between parenting styles because no parent wants to be wrong. There are two perfect lines that sums this article up: “don’t hug your kids too much” and “When you are tempted to pet your child, remember that mother love is a dangerous instrument.”
The author’s point of view is tremendously significant to everyone because it’s about a lifelong debate and deals with issues people have dealt with forever. There are people who think children should have their own freedoms in life and others who feel they should be on top of everything their child is doing; the debate will be there forever because of different cultures, nationalities, upbringing, and values. The author is on the too much love means unhappy adulthood side of the debate. Lori writes this article to show parents that it’s factual that if you protect your child or children too much they could be unhappy adults and no one wants that for their children. Her reasons are clear for writing this article because she gives a lot of facts, real people interviews, professional inputs and even has a video about the so called “trophy kids.” Lori also says she is a new mother and saw a lot of different ways people were raising their own kids so she did this research and found out that protecting and loving your kids too much could drive them into therapy because they do not know how to handle problems the real world throws at them.
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