Blessing In The Glass Castle

When a man or a woman is transformed into a parent, they take many responsibilities upon themselves. These responsibilities are essential in raising physically and mentally healthy children. The given promises a parent must follow through on when raising a child encompass the fundamentals like: feeding, clothing, and housing a child. If a child were deprived of these fundamentals they would be restricted in growing both physically and mentally. Naturally, a starved child without proper clothes and housing to protect him/her from the weather is a malnourished child and is physically deprived. However, food, clothes, and proper housing also relates directly to the educational prosperity of a child. In The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls accounts

The helicopter mom (and/or dad) is a popular example of poor parenting in respect to encouraging independence. From Dr. Haim Ginott's 1969 book Parents & Teenagers, helicopter parenting refers to “shadowing a child” or always watching over a child which consequently restricts independence. A helicopter parent might, “call(ing) a professor about poor grades, arrange(ing) a class schedule, manage exercising habits.” As Wendy Mogel, author of Blessings of a Skinned Knee and Blessings of a B minus, says in a short sentence, “Teenagers need to make dumb mistakes to get smart.” This is a pivot point of human psychology - one learns from experience, and if a child is not exposed to the world outside before they are off to college, they are deprived of proper parenting. It is important for a child to develop his own outlook on the world and not base his perspective off the narrow view a helicopter parent would fabricate. When one transcends childhood and enters adulthood they must be reliant on their own summation of knowledge to succeed and not be dependent on their parents (looking after