In “Girl,” by Jamaica Kincaid, the author portrays a mother’s concern for her daughter’s behavior and upbringing in her community. The story portrays life from Kincaid’s childhood in Antigua during the 1950s.This short story warns of the dangers of female sexuality and the importance of the power of domesticity. Throughout the the story, the mother, who is also the main narrator, seems to teach her daughter important lessons, but also scold her on her improper behavior. This story expresses the importance of female domesticity. The mother figure in the story makes a list of tasks she is teaching her daughter.
“Marks” is a poem about a woman who is constantly being judged from multiple standards on her performances as a day to day mother. Her family takes care of setting these standards, differing from her husband, son, and daughter. Even though she receives fairly good marks from her family “[she’s] dropping out].”(12) The speaker is trying to show us that one who is constantly being judged by others may take a turn that shows they can defeat the system. The speaker makes it clear that she herself takes care of many of the family duties. She had to make “last night’s supper”(2), iron her family’s clothes, and satisfy her husband’s needs in bed.
“Sometimes I thought about the way we lived out at home and the way we lived here and how one way was hard to imagine when you were living the other way” (67). Edie demonstrates that she is wiser, by the way, she takes on her responsibilities as the hired girl. Before she took her bath and tried on Mrs. Peebles’s dress she had her household duties done. “I was through my jobs in no time, and had the vegetables peeled for supper and sitting in cold water” (67). Edie is responsible enough at the age of fifteen to know that her job is important and she must finish it before playing dress up.
From being house-wives, slaves to men, care takers, maids, cooks, mothers, to having to be all that and work, maintain a household, pay bills, and bring home money. Women are expected to go to work then go home, and while at home from a long day of work do all the house chores, which basically is a 24/7 job minus the pay. The definition society has painted on femininity has changed; as we go into a new era society expects more and more from women. In the early 19th century women were almost considered slaves to men, they were to stay home cook, clean, and do anything and everything her husband demanded. That has evolved dramatically, societies view on women is not only that women must be the care takers of the family, but they are also expected
Having a baby is a very memorable moment, but it takes a lot of work and a lot of skill to be able to assist a mother when she is having a baby and also to help the new parents take care of their new baby. The term neonatal means the first twenty-eight days of life, as a neonatal nurse you work close with parents showing them how to do basic tasks to care for their new baby, you teach them how to change a diaper, how to breast feed, or if your bottle feeding how to make the bottle and the right temperature of the water so that you don’t burn your babies throat. Being a neonatal nurse requires very harsh working conditions, you work very long hours usually 12 hour shifts but most times you have to stay longer to finish your work, neonatal nurses usually work more than forty hours per week, depending on the position you got hired on to
Summary of Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” is the story of a mother and her daughters. When the oldest daughter, Dee, wants a quilt that Mrs. Johnson has already given to her younger, plainer daughter, Maggie, the worth of something is put to the test. Dee comes home for a visit from college, with her new husband. Mrs. Johnson, who has always wished to have more of a connection with Dee, learns that her daughter has changed her name. When they go into the kitchen for something to drink, Dee gets up and starts packing the butter churn that her mother still uses.
Some of these chores include being a caregiver for her children, tending to the garden, making and maintain the family clothing, cook and keeping the house clean. More recently than ever, some Amish women startup businesses but once they give birth, it becomes hard for them to keep up
Her goal is to better understand why teenage mothers have been marginalized by society for many years and wants to change this image and create a new identity for these girls. She also wants to display what types of educational practices are being offered to assist these students at schools designed particularly for pregnant teens and teenage mothers. This research paper is considered to be emancipator/transformative as the one of the main needs for the research paper was outlined to encourage educators to change the way they see pregnant and parenting students. “By examining important aspects of their school-based learning, specifically the literacy practices in which these teens engage, educators are prompted to reconsider the identity of the pregnant and parenting student.” (Hallman, 2007, p.82) The participants become empowered and are encouraged to believe in themselves as members of Eastview School for Pregnant and Parenting Teens. One of the lessons in Bob’s class was a discussion responding to a letter to the editor arguing that schools like Eastview School were enabling students to make poor decisions and to act irresponsibly.
If only parents did something of this sort now with their children, and then maybe it wouldn't be as hard to find jobs and have to get degrees for any good paying job. Teenage girls had a quite different training than of the boys. Girls were taught what a housewife should know when she gets married such as spinning, carding, sewing, and knitting. Girls mainly helped their mothers or mistress around the house with the chores they did. Did a woman have to know how to do all these things before she got married?
3.3 Describe with examples how transitions may affect children and young people behaviour and development…. Transitions may affect the child in many ways for example, A new sibling coming into the family whether being born onto the family adopted or fostered, the child/ children already in the family may feel exited, happy, giddy on the other hand upset jealous may become withdrawn and start attention seeking among other things, this in turn would affect their development in many ways if they are exited their Emotional development will progress due to wanting to help be in there doing lots of things for baby, their intellectual development will progress due to learning new things talking to the baby telling it stories. Their social development can go in two ways, if they became withdrawn they will end up on their own and lonely or with the new baby they will be getting a lot of attention and will end up in the thick of it. Their physical development again can go either way too, they could develop trying impress others and new baby, or they may regress due to not getting enough attention and wanting more whether its good or bad attention. Another example, Puberty, a sudden change to the body hormones raging through the body, changing things dramatically.