Parenting Essay

Please write a one- to two-page essay (single-spaced) about your family, your cultural heritage and about an event in your upbringing that shaped your thinking about your parents and how they treated you.

Please reflect on what this event meant to you. Then please discuss a similar event one or both your parents or caretakers faced and how it was treated in the family.

The strongest essay will cover your family background and just one important experience in your upbringing and, if possible, one experience from your parents’ generation.

Important note: If your family history is too painful to write about, you may write about writing about a friend’s or relative’s upbringing.

You do not need to have your essay posted anonymously in our essay collection if you don’t wish.

Please let me know if you do not wish to have your essay posted.

You may do that by saying so in the first sentence of your essay.

You will receive full credit for your essay, and I will not post it to share with classmates.

Points: This essay will be graded and you can earn up to five points or 5 per cent of your final grade in the course.

You will find your grade and my comments in Assignments/Week One Essay on Parenting in the Assignment area.

Where to post your essay: Please post your essay in the Assignment Area (Assignments/Week One Essay) I will post your essay anonymously in a new Discussion in the Forums (Week Two Discussion: Your Schooling Essays) under my name that makes them anonymous.