synthesis essay

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___Respect is a very important way of maintaining a relationship between a parent and a child. It can not be used to control but nurture a bond. In the passages "the most powerful quiestion a parent can ask..." by neil millar and "be-ers and doers" by budge willson both detail the parents own way of approaching a relationship with their children.

___In the article "the most important question a parent can ask..." Neil Millar explains throughout her article the respectful ways you can raise a child by asking "what kind of child do you want to raise?". Millar details how stereotypical parent, especially mothers who "race around the house picking up dirty towels from the bathroom floor" so that their children can have a laid back easy life. She explains that for women valuse are passed down and they tend to raise their own children the way that they were raised by their mothers. Millar then asks the reader if "they want strong, loving children, who accept responsibility for their 'self' and the ones they love?". She asks the reader to analyze their childs household activities, whether they help around the house or continue to do their own activities with little regard to others. She simply explains that the foundation of teaching a child to show and have respect is to ask them to help with just little things that will eventually build up a respectful and mature adult.

___In the text "be-ers and doers", Budge Wilson's mother character has devised a different approach to raising her children to be respectful but still yet efficient. The mother believes you have to be a doer to succeed and get through life, she describes her husband as a "be-er" and that "bein' just ain't good enough". When their son Albert is born, his mother proclaims to make a "prefect son" which meant to force him to be a "doer" even though he was a "Be-er, born that way". Throughout the story his mother pushes and pushes him to be productive and efficient in his house and school work and is little excepting of minor failures. In the end Albert turns out to be sucesful and run his own farm without the pursuit of excellance from his mother. Both these passages detail and describe the different writers opinions on raising respectfull children.

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