The Perfect Parent Children Relationship

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Through our lifetime, we have built many relationships with very different individuals. However, there is one special relationship that must require most of our mind and heart to put into in order to get it tightly; that is the relationship between parent and their children. By reading two essays, “Arm Wrestling with My Father” by Brad Manning and “Shooting Dad” by Sarah Vowell, the authors explained three most important traits, which a perfect parent children relationship should have. These three characteristics include attention, respect, and love. The first attribute that any parent, who wants to form a perfect relationship with their children, should have is paying good attention their children. Children who are given good attention from their parents will feel significant and form a stronger bond to their parents. That can lead parent and children to have a successful communication. This attribute is also the one which helped Sarah Vowell and her father building a successful relationship in her specific essay, “Shooting Dad”. Since Sarah’s first time holding a pistol and seeing guns as evils, she was never able to join any gun activities of her father and her twin sister. Sarah’s relationship with her father also gets worse when she became a Democrat while her father supported the Republican. However, as the fact that she gets older and wanted to become a better daughter, she decided to pay more attention on her father’s gun thing. One day, she asked to join the testing of her father’s homemade canon; she was using a tape recorder, which she called a shotgun mike, to record the noise of the canon. At that moment, she realized “Oh. My. God. My dad and I are the same person. We're both smart-alecky loners with goofy projects and weird equipment” (159). By spending time together one by one, Sarah and her father decreased the difference from their interests, and
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