Sunday, July 25, 2010
All Joy and No Fun
All Joy and no Fun is an article that describes the good the bad and the ugly of parenting. Things that most parents wouldn't want to admit. It has some facts in it about studies that were done on parents and the outcome of the studies, indicates that most parents aren't as happy as childless couples. How having children sometimes has negative effects on marriage by adding stress to the parents relationship. One part that I could relate is parents of six to twelve year old children are in the least stressful period time for parents. Older parents often have a harder time adjusting to there new lives after having children. Due to being used to focusing on careers and there schedules and having time for each other. A study done also revealed that parents in other countries are happier and have more time to spend with there children, than parents in the United States. Data gathered by a trio of sociologists claims that parents spend more time than they did in 1975 including moms. In spite of the rush of women in the American workforce. Mothers are less happier than fathers, single parents less happy still. Studies have found that parents dissatisfaction only grew the more money they had, even though they could buy more child care. Another part that was interesting was the big brother of parenting footage of a typical home in the evening with the mom and son fighting about shutting of the computer when it said that is the best birth control for anyone I thought was hilarious.
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I think this summary gives us enough details on to what the story is about. In my opinion I think there are enough main points in your summary and you also being able to relate to a part of the story being a parent yourself. I did notice you wrote in your own words for this story.
ReplyDeletehi Melinda- I think you did a great job summarizing here. You told us that this article tells of the good, the bad, and the ugly of parenting and teh i can plainly see "the bad" and "the ugly"... as you have listed some examples like "most parents aren't as happy as childless couples". You did not actually mention any good though. I do think the original article (at least toward the end) DID point at some postitive aspects of parenting and maybe you could also mention that here?
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure, but I think maybe a summary should leave out your opinions of the information given, or comments about what you personally could connect with. (like where you say you can relate to the statement about 6-12 year olds). I'm not positive on this point though... am curious what Prof. Pappas says.
All in all though, I think this is very concise. After reading this I KNOW i've written too much for mine!!!
Nice job :)
one more thing- forgot to mention the author as well
ReplyDeleteSorry Melinda.... i was wrong. I'm confused about this assignment because the other notes we had on summarizing said to sort of echo the etxt writer's voice and not add your own spin/ opinions. But then i just read that we have to put our own take on it. So forget what i wrote about adding your opinions! :)
ReplyDeleteJust a quick note--I'm reading everyone's then will go back and write longer responses on individual blogs. To clarify this issue about what to put in: this part of assignment was just to summarize (which is the mirroring back what author of article said without adding your own two cents). The full assignment for Essay 3 will use this summary, but you will add a short introduction (to the issue/controversy the article adresses) plus your own response, which for this article at least will probably involve your own experience as a parent. The most typical/straightforward way to organize this is: intro, summary, response. Or you may break the article into several pieces and respond to each as you go along (though here you have to be careful that your reader knows which part is the author's point of view and which part is yours). Hope this helps...will put more specific info on everyone's blogs shortly...
ReplyDeleteMelinda--
ReplyDeleteYou've picked out many of the ideas here, but I'd like to see this organized and developed a little bit more. You present this just as one paragraph. Is there some way you can "chunk" ideas together? She talks about survey results, she talks about explanations/reasons for those results, and then at the end she talks about happiness vs. reward. That gives you a basic three-paragraph structure. The explanations part is awfully long, though, because she lists many reasons, so could you break that into several smaller paragraphs by grouping similar reasons together?
Also, at the beginning you could be more specific about what it all adds up to for the author. Is she just presenting good and bad aspects of parenting, Or does she have an attitude herself? she's a parent--does she hate parenting? How does she reconcile survey results with her own experience?
Grammar note: I know this is rough draft and you may not have been watching for grammar issues, but there are quite a few fragments here. Be careful in final draft.