Rhetorical Analysis Of Overprotective Parents

Hanna Rosin’s article, “The Overprotected Kid”, addresses the issue that kids are missing out on developmental benefits when they are not allowed to explore the world by weighing their own risks. She introduces rhetoric concepts such as audience, genre, and purpose to get her point across to her readers. Rosin uses these ideas to portray her opinion in a unique way to connect to her readers and persuade them to consider her viewpoint as their own. This article seems to be written as a persuasive journal entry to parents to sway their parenting behaviors to be less overprotective. In Rosin’s article, she makes a strong argument that kids need independence by making her audience, genre, and purpose known from start to finish.

“The Privileges of The Parents” is written by Margaret A. Miller, a Curry School of Education professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. This woman was a project director for the Pew-sponsored National Forum on college level learning from 2002-2004. This forum assessed the skills and knowledge of college educated students in five states by a way that allowed the test givers to make state-by-state comparisons. Miller believes that “[a] college education has benefits that ripple down through the generations” and this has enabled her to work and speak on topics such as: college level learning and how to evaluate it, change in higher education, the public responsibilities of higher education, campus

Author, Eliana Dockterman in her article, “The Digital Parent Trap,” exposes the potential benefits of technology use among young people. Dockterman’s purpose is to persuade her audience that there are benefits to early exposure to technology. Dockterman adopts a professional tone in order to get her audience into believing that technology does have its benefits and should be used more. Dockterman uses evidence, reasoning, word choice and tone that adds power to her ideas to build an argument to persuade her audience throughout her article.

Parenting is often judged yet rarely understood. One could be the ultimate parent AND the ultimate failure, all at the same time. The guilt of corrupting someone who is your responsibility deteriorates a parent over time. It is universally accepted that as we grow older we become a mirror image of our parents. Their values become our own, just as their parents’ became theirs. Supposing this is true, what would become of those who are without parents?

For the purpose of this project I will be looking at some of the influences that can impact on children’s social and emotional development as they move through childhood. These can often have a great impact on a child’s learning and ability to make successful transitions at key points in their lives. Difficulties often become apparent within the structured institutions such as schools where large cohorts are expected by society to conform to a certain acceptability of behaviour. This is an expectation that can be placed upon a child as young as three years old when they enter the education system for possibly the next fifteen years. Consequently, we know children are

Levitt and Dubner classify Freakonomics as a book having “no such unifying theme” (14), but all the unique topics discussed throughout the text connect back together in order to show the hidden side of human nature. The argument that the wide variety of topics and their abstract descriptions all link together draws the attention of a large audience and connects to issues that society is currently facing or has recently confronted.

People often say that there is no correct or right way to raise a child, and yet parents face criticism all the time. What makes a good or a bad parent? Well, let’s look at the kids. Surely the difference between a musically talented, straight A student, and an average C grade student depends on their upbringing, but that is not always the truth. For some people, their way is the only correct way, and the perfect example would be from one Amy Chau, a mother of two who embraces the stereotypical “Asian parent” role and scorns the “Western” way of parenting. An excerpt taken from “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” goes into detail about Chau’s strong, and mostly controversial, opinions on how one should raise a kid.

I’ve got some things going on regarding my daughter today. She means the world to me and I am her best advocate. I will do anything for her without question.

In a world where we are constantly juggling busy schedules, parents face many challenges regarding what activities to involve their children in, when to get them involved, and how rigorously to push them to excel. Anne R. Pierce discusses her opinion on these challenges in her article “Who’s Raising Baby? Challenges to Modern-Day Parenting.” The purpose of this paper is to identify three weaknesses in the research of the article and one strength, as well as provide an opinion on the argument.

“By trying so hard to protect our kids, we’re making them too safe to succeed...Prepare your child for the path, not the path for your child. We’re doing the opposite,” declared Lenore Skenazy and Jonathan Haidt. A helicopter parent is defined as someone who is overly involved and controlling in their child’s life. To the contrary, neglect is defined as the failure to care for a child properly such as abandon or desert. All good parents have found a happy medium between those two. Helicopter parenting can be just as dangerous for the well being of a child as total neglect. Despite the fact that a strong, supportive relationship with parents is healthy, the constant overprotectiveness of helicopter parents will result in the child being incapable

Macoby and Martin’s simplification of parenting styles as seen in Bee’s The Growing Child (Source: Adapted from Macoby & Martin, 1983, Fifure 2, p.39.).

Have you ever had overprotective parents? Let me tell you a story of myself being one of them. At the end of every month, after Sunday mass, my children and I would visit local Toronto landmarks like the Ontario Science Centre or the High Park to take a rest from work and school. Jeffry would always favor High Park because of the zoo and his love for animals. However, Amelia would rather get her hands on the kid-friendly activities in the museum. I would love to satisfy their desires at the same time, but I couldn’t. I am able to hire a nanny to take one of my children to the park or museum, yet I was an overprotective mother who wanted to keep her babies close. Currently, it is November 12, 2050, Jeffry is now 21 and attending college to get a

Instantly, several parents are struggling to find a way to raise their children effectively. Permissive parenting is one of their choices. Being permissive is treating children with plenty of love, caring and nurturing but not much authorities, rules or punishments. They might make their children lack of self-control or aggressive, but alongside with these disadvantages, there are also numerous benefits. Permissive parenting helps children to be successful, have the courage to achieve their dreams and gives parents greater understanding of their children.

Helicopter parents are harmful to their children’s lives and they must stop their overbearing ways. Helicopter parents are parents who hover their kids. They want their kids to be perfect at mostly everything. Helicopter parents want to control their children’s lives, by making all of their decisions for them. The children need to have their own life and make their own choices. Helicopter parents can be harmful because they can negatively affect children’s childhood, future, and problem-solving skills.

The family is the basic unit of the society. They are peoples’ pillar of strength, inspiration, encouragement and love. From the very beginning of one’s life, the family played a very important role in the overall development of the child – his personality, interpersonal relations, the way he saw himself, and his viewed of the world. The family then is not just a group of people who shared the same name and lived under the same roof. Rather, they are people who loved each other, interacted, and helped each other grew into better individuals.