The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

Children today are given everything and in return give nothing, this is bad for humanity to become a grow and remain prosperous. Children need experience and they need to be resilient to petty problems and learn how to fight actual problems. Children need to grow into healthy self-sustaining adults. Parents often time in present day America often give their children better opportunities in school and expect them to perform up to the level that the money that they spend should equate to. This way of parenting causes high amounts of stress for the student because they feel that if they aren’t getting A’s then they have failed at their job as a student (Source A). The pressure of this job to perform up to a specific standard is causing parents
Jeannette Walls, writer of the Glass Castle, learned how to swim not because she wanted to but because she flat out needed to in order to not drown, this experience made her stronger and she learned on her own although she was forced to learn by her father’s hand. When children work together on a problem without the help of their parents and explore the world around them, they tend to find unique solutions, they grow as individuals and build character. Children nowadays aren’t challenged in any other way, and as such don’t aren’t equipped for challenges that they might face as they grow
In its most elementary form a diploma is a piece of paper. Ultimately a piece of paper is not going to do much on its own, it needs actions to back it up, and resilient children with experiences are able to make themselves better prepared for the real world without help from their parents (Source C). Parents can promote resilience by giving their child genuine feedback and valuing their questions about life and themselves and subjecting their child to many experiences at a young age (Source D)(Source B). Building resilience in children is the most important job for parents to ensure the growth of children who are self-sufficient adults, their job is not to treat their child like a baby throughout the child’s life into