Parenting Paradigms In The Glass Castle By Jeanette Walls

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Glass Castle Parenting Paradigms In The Glass Castle, a memoir by Jeanette Walls, Rex and Rosemary Walls most exemplify the permissive parenting style. From the very beginning of the memoir, Rex and Rosemary show that they aren’t too involved and “have very few demands to make of their children” (Cherry, “The Four Styles of Parenting”). Jeanette recalls an early memory of her childhood, “I was three years old… I was standing on a chair in front of the stove” (9). While they provided Jeanette with food, they left her on her own to cook for herself and it led to her getting burned, meaning their permissiveness resulted in injury. Although it’s because of higher expectations of maturity, the Walls had little to no rules for their children to