You Will Be Thankful In The Future Analysis

Education is a long-term investment. We, as students, work hard to acquire knowledge and to hone our skills so that we may use them one day. The effort we put into a single assignment should be considered as both for that specific assignment and for our rounding as complete, educated individuals. And with this mindset, students should be motivated even more to put more effort and hard work into academics, with the goal of bettering themselves for the future and advancing their prospects as individuals. And with this hard work and effort will come progress, and this progress should be reflected in the grading—not necessarily on individual assignments, but on the student’s education as a

Surprisingly, I obtained two diplomas and a letter signed by the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, congratulating me for my excellence and achievement in school. Additionally, I accepted a diploma for the “magnificent” personal narrative I wrote, which I read for everyone present at the fifth-grade ceremony. Nevertheless, receiving all the rewards and praise from my family and friends were nothing compared to my third-grade teacher’s last words to me; words that still echo in the back of my mind and make me cringe till this day. “I always knew you could do

Julie Lythcott-Haims explains to us all what a perfect child is; straight A student, fabulous test scores, gets homework done without parents asking them to do it… She has the right idea, the right mindset of a parent, every parent wants their child to succeed in life. The way that parents are parenting their children is messing them up. They don’t have a chance to become themselves, they are too focused on whether they did good on that test that they were stressing about for a week, they are too worried about getting the best grade to be able to get accepted into the biggest name colleges around. The parents become too consumed with hovering over their children making sure that they are doing flawlessly in school, the parents are directing their every single move they make. The children then began to think that their parents love comes from the good grades. Then they start making this checklist; Good grades, what they want to be when they grow up, get accepted into good colleges, great SAT scores, the right GPA, the jock of the sports team.

Bruni quotes the President of the National Center on Education, Marc Tucker, “ Our students have an inflated sense of their academic prowess.They don’t expect to spend much time studying, but they confidently expect good grades and marketable degrees”(par.25). From a young age we need to teach these children you succeed from hard work. Many parents have been exempting their children from test and are expecting them to learn? In order for kids to be able to learn what they need to, parents need to allow them to deal with the difficult times.

My moms raised me with a strong set of morals, including “hard work pays off.” Sometimes this can be discouraging when you work hard, but it doesn’t pay off as you’d like it to. I’ve always gotten the grades I strive for without much struggle. However, once high school started, everything changed. I’d work for weeks on a scholarship essay, and I wouldn’t even place. I’d work for months to get something published and then read other people’s names in the congratulations announcement. I’d constantly wonder: Who’s at the top of the class? Who’s going to win the end of year awards? When you consistently get the grades that I do, people just expect those grades. No one congratulates you on your hard work anymore, and you don’t always get recognized. Despite the lack of recognition, I still take pride in my grades, and continue to work hard. Getting great grades is something I know I can do, even when it’s difficult to do. The difficulty makes it even more satisfying when I see the hard work pay off, and I get the grade I wanted. I’ve encountered

Furthermore, the author points out that grades are not improving because students and education are improving but rather because parents and students are demanding grades to be adjusted according to what they think it is needed not what it is deserved. “Students and parents are demanding -- and getting -- what they think of as their money's worth” (Staples, 216). Students are not receiving the grade they truly deserve based on their work but what the parents and the students themselves

The most influential person in an individual life happens to be the parents. Parents teach their children expected behavior, boundaries, and rules. Although, children are always more attentive to their parent’s behavior; something parents quite often do not realize. If the parents walk does not match their talk their; kids will not take in consideration what they have been taught. Kids always have that mentality of “if you did it, I will do it too because it is okay.” Children learn more from their parents character than their teachings; demonstrating that actions speak louder than words. Clearly, what individuals are exposed in their adolescents shapes their mentality affecting how they perceive situations and people. A lot of things

In his op-ed, “Are Kids Too Coddled?,” author Frank Bruni argues that children need to be exposed to the harshness of reality. According to Bruni, “praise… can lessen motivation and set children up to be demoralized when they invariably fail at something” (par. 25). By showering children in praise even when they are not successful, students will never learn the importance of hard work. There is no reason to put in effort to go above and beyond expectations if mediocre work receives the same amount of acknowledgement. Due to the excess of undeserved praise, Bruni believes that “students have an inflated sense of their academic prowess” (par. 26). Students expect to get good grades without studying and working hard. In order to reverse the damage caused by sheltering our children, Bruni argues that an application of more rigorous standards in school is necessary to make America’s children “ready to compete globally” (par. 29). By setting higher standards, students will be able to learn more and attain true academic excellence.

Parents often make decisions based on their children’s well being but, sometimes being protective can be a bad thing. For example, Amir, the main character from the book “The Kite Runner”, had lived his whole life believing that his servant friend, Hassan, was his father’s favorite out of the two because he was more like his father than he was, not knowing that Hassan was actually his half brother. Baba and everyone around Amir that knew had kept this huge secret from both Hassan and Amir, making Amir very guilty about everything that happened during his childhood. Another example would be Oedipus, the main character from Oedipus Rex, that was abandoned by his parents because of a curse. His parents nailed his ankles to the trees so that he would not move but, someone let him go. Oedipus ended up marrying his mother and was on a hunt to kill his father just like the curse said he would, until the truth came out and it was too late to save his mother. All the secrets led to the real life that Amir and Oedipus have to face to rid themselves of the guilt.

Since the child is aware of why their parents set such rules, they respect their parents, and are more likely to respect the law as well. Children raised in families with these parenting styles are “self-confident and achievement-oriented in school and get better grades than do children whose parents have other parenting styles” ( Lifespan: Development, 203).

The readers maybe didn’t gain that how a kid acts and makes choices long term or short term, bad choices or good really reflect how a parent is and how the parent treated them.

In this story, Carolina and Savvie are sisters that can't be apart from each other. “I will Follow you” by Roxane Gay follows a story about these two girls that have lived a very difficult life and all they have is each other, they keep thinking back and forth about their very traumatic past as little as 10 and 11 years old. When these girls are put to the hardest test, will they let their past tragic event take over their adult lives? Savvie was ten and Carolina was eleven, when they got kidnapped, they were in a small parking lot near the park of their neighborhood. A man grabbed Savvie by her overalls and took her inside his van but instead of Caroline running and screaming for help, she ran into the van for Savvie.

Each individual’s trial and tribulations form them. No parent has the right to impose their past experiences, whether positive or not, on their child;every child should live and learn on his own.

Well, to start off with I’m just thankful for being alive. Not everyone gets to have an easy going life with their whole family. The love I get is huge and surprising in general. I’ve had my share of mistakes, horrible ones, but my family and friends all still care for me and my well being. What I’m thankful next are my features my abilities. I really love how tall I am, it makes me smile everytime I see myself in the morning. Sure I’m not the best looking guy in the world, but I know I have a big heart. In this cold lonely place we call life people always forget about what's important. We’re all so cold nowadays it’s rough looking at some people whose good gentle hearts have turned to stone from bitter feelings. But the last thing I'm thankful

Starting from my first days of life, my parents did everything to please me; additionally, they always tried to do their best to develop my literacy skills and help me to become smarter. I always loved learning and each time when they made up some game or a new interaction, it was great fun to play. I had no idea that learning could be challenging because each task that they offered was easy to accomplish and absolutely doable for me. I grew up knowing that there was no process more exciting than learning. Besides, at the back of my mind, I was convinced that every new thing I learned was changing me for better. When I became a schoolboy, my parents were pleased whenever my grades were excellent. I wanted them to feel pleased and happy all the time. At the beginning, I strived to get an A to deserve some reward; for instance, getting some ice cream seemed to be a sufficient motivation for me to learn a long text or do loads of assignments. However, later on, I started getting delighted just because when I managed to learn something new, my knowledge made me