Short Story: Tarkan's Home

“Do what you have to do, and send me to the main office.” “I don’t care,” said Alexander, a teenage student who I disciplined in the hallway.

Parenting played a big role in shaping the two boys lives. Having a parental mentor is important because they assist and guide children to take the right decisions about their lives. The author had his two parents at the beginning of his life. Also, the author’s parents, especially his mother, tried to raise him in an effective way wanting him to know the right from wrong at an early age. “No mommy loves you, like I love you, she just wants you to do the right thing” (Moore 11). This quote was a live example of the author’s life with his parents. It reflected the different ways his parents used to teach him “the right thing.” Though his mother was upset from his action toward his sister, his father

The children?s pale faces came to mind suddenly. The hollowness of their stares. The frightened gleam in their eyes, the hopelessness in their expressions. They?d already been unwillingly dragged into this chaos. They had no choice over the matter. If they can do this, why can?t you? I scolded myself silently.

Initially, the narrator raises an example of a child who beheld how his mother got mistreated by his man. When the folk brawled he used to shut his ears and attempted to eschew caring. Instead, the boy listened to loud music and the parents became cursed at him. With the aid of the article the lecturer elucidates that children are not bystanders in such occasions, on the contrary, they

            You see, the citizens are aware of the child’s presence. They are aware, as well , that it is a necessity. They all know that it has to be there. Some understand why, and some do not, but they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, ...the health of their children, the wisdom of their scholars...even the abundance of their harvest...depend wholly on this child’s abominable misery. Somehow, the oppression of the child makes possible the advancement of Omelas. The citizens need to keep the child down so that they can rise. It is the existence of the child, and their knowledge of its existence, that makes possible the nobility of [Omelas]. They all know that if the child were to be freed, Ò...in that day

He never understood this treatment fully and completely. Why did his father abuse him as a child? Why was he the test subject for his father’s careless experiments? Why was his life ruined by his own father?

“You must replace judgment with empathy, and lectures with questions. If you do so, you gain influence. The instant you stop trying to impose your agenda on others, you eliminate the fight for control.” Instead of judging someone on their behavior, we should try to understand why a person did what they did by simply asking the. When you try to understand where the other person is coming from it gives a better understand on what behavioral change might need to be altered. One a person feels attacked for their mistake; it doesn’t make them feel very confident in going forward. The book uses the quote from Peter Block, “Your “yes” means nothing if you can’t say “no.” there can be no commitment if there is no choice.” When someone is given a choice to change their behavior more than likely they will choose the correct action because it was their idea, not someone

"I can't help you if you don't talk to me." Jean repeated for the umpteenth time. Armin however, remained silent staring at the blank, white wall.

The child stated that he continues to tell his mother that he does not want to see his father. However, he is told that he has to.

Hal had dared not contradict his Princess, for though she was right in that Fort Mana had never fallen, neither had it been assaulted with this new invention. Blasting powder was a new discovery and its' destructive force was unlike anything before, save for the deepest and most forbidden of magiks. Those sorts of arcane powers came with prices all their own, and the backlash from wielding such power was often enough to maim or kill. Blasting powder, though the same, was much safer for the every day common man to use, though it still had to be handled with care.

One night, in the middle of the summer, Japes woke out of a sound sleep with a startling revelation about a girl he knew when growing up in Vacationland. She embodied the meaning of service through and through despite the fact that she did not work in a hotel. Her demeanor and giving nature were a true giveaway. Japes, not a believer in fantasy, or carrying any strong religious values, experienced a vision that night which he never forgot. His classmate, Janeen, who he knew in high school and had become good friends with, gently waved goodbye to him in his sleep. He had not seen or spoken to Janeen for several years since their lives had taken them in separate directions. Married and starting a new life she and her husband had relocated

What makes a child determine at such a young age to defy her mom on every hand for the rest of their life? The sad realization that Ni’Kan would rather see her mother angry at her than disappointed in her became her revelation. Anger meant that she was in control and not her mom.

On the north side of Los Angles, there lived a young lively American couple, Joanne and Melvin Mercer. Mr. and Mrs. Mercer have been married for two years and have not had a child. Though they do want kids of their own, they have not had any luck. On December 18th, at four in the morning, Joanne proposed a thought that would change their lives forever.

Raffi reported when his parents were together both parents took care of him. The child stated during those years he cannot remember any nice things he did with his father. He has not had any nice experiences with his father. Raffi reported that his mother allowed his father to be this way. Raffi stated that his mother would try to “cheer him up” and be supportive of him.

Ever since Chester's birth, till now (age ten), he became a very rambunctious child. Always crying for food as well for his mother. Even before Chester even born his mother was an ally back night "prostitute" to get some money in the house and for her. Due to having a smallish figure she didn't know she was pregnant, until close to the full nine months. With all the labor pains and to the hospital, the doctors told her she has been pregnant for a while. When his mother conceived him, she decided to keep him. Not because she wanted him, but she found that he was a shiny mienfoo. To her: she would take that advantage to have a Shiny all to herself since they are rare in the town she was living in (Small town). She wanted a daughter, but since