Essays on Dads

GROWING THE MAMAS & PAPAS BRAND

Mamas & Papas is a magazine about paternity that was started in September 2008 by Nawaal Motlekar in South Africa. The philosophy of the brand is to be trusted, reassuring source for parents. From the early beginning of the Mamas & Papas magazine it was focused on young couples (in age between 23 – 40) that are Black, Coloured or Indian (nearly of 80% of all population of South Africa), and are high end professionals with good educational level and work experience. The main sales channels were medical and health institutions, pediatrician offices. Also, after deep market research, Nawaal Motlekar decided that ...

Colorado Springs:

Colorado Springs located in central east of the United States. It is basically situated in the fountain creek some 97 km away from the Colorado State Capital in Denver. Colorado Springs is blessed with much natural beauty. The mountainous region provides a scenic beauty and a place for tourism. Colorado basically is situated around the base of Pikes Peaks. This city is also the centre of around 24 national sports governing bodies. It was entitled as the best place to live in the USA by the U.S. News and World Report ("100 Best Places to Live in the USA | ...

Marriage vs. Military Service Member

Military service is typical in the current world, where crimes and terror attacks have increased. Some of the servicemen may be involved in battles for long durations, leaving their families worried about their safety in the war. Married people who go out to war leaving their partners and kids at home are not settled because they are always thinking about the welfare of the family. When family members are left at home, they do not know if their members will be back from the battle in a healthy condition, and this causes panic among the kids and partners. Balancing ...

The first glimpse of a newborn is a lifetime memory. The first hug, the first smile, the soft cry, the response of a child, makes heart yearn for more of it. The arrival also causes much flutter in the house. A child is a little bundle of joy, and at the same time, requires non-stop attention of the family. Both the partners are bound into an enduring yet sweet journey of raising a child. It is indeed an invaluable and priceless experience which nobody would want to miss. But as the working mothers are entitled to paid maternity leave barring few countries, such as, ...

Movie director Oliver Stone’s 1989 film “Born on the Fourth of July” is a vivid screen adaptation of antiwar activist Ron Kovic’s autobiographical account of his idealistic dreams of war to becoming the damaged bitter war veteran. This film review follows Stone’s story line of portraying the evolution of Kovic from a young boy playing war with his friends in 1950s Massapequa, Long Island, to his eventual recognition and acceptance as an articulate and respected antiwar activist. For many of the people today, references to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s are little-known history because this generation wasn’ ...

According to Sacks, the subtext that is provided over the epidemic of childlessness in the lives of most executives is that men are to blame. According to the women, men are to blame because according to them, men refuse to be left at home and be the primary caretaker of the kids. This would mean that, for a woman who wants to concentrate on her career, she would have to shelve her need to have kids and concentrate on her work first because if she had kids she would have to stay at home to take care of them, consequently ...

Over the last few decades the question about gay rights and gay marriage has been widely discussed not only in the USA, but in most Western European countries. It has affected many people, who opted either for or against the question, if gays should have rights. It was not only discussed about the rights as a single person, but also about the rights of being a same sex-couple. People that are in these types of relationships started all forms of protests and initiatives to gain their rights to be married. There is a strict line of division between the groups of people ...

Before reading the article “Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life” I have decided to take a clear view of what I am not satisfied with and want to change in my life. It turns out that I am quite satisfied with my job because I love what I do and I am also happy to have some friends at work. Moreover, there are some chances for promotion. The only disappointing thing about my job is that it takes too much time and as a result I feel less involved into my family and community life. This fact makes me feel guilty. ...

Marriage as an institution is changing. What used to happen in the future no longer happens, as people have devised their means of defining what marriage is. Despite the changes which have already been seen in marriages, the possible social effects of viewing marriage as a less than permanent relationship. Marriage as an institution is changing that it can be a legal union between two mature people of the opposite sex or in some cases between people of the same sex to live together or just to partner in a relationship. Traditionally, it was morally accepted that only a man and woman ...

Reality television is a powerful way employed by the media to exploit human beings’ insatiable desire to escape their immediate realities and into other people’s lives, experiences or indeed other places. The plethora of such shows that have sprung up over the past few decades are all geared at pushing the extremes of the human curiosity, exploring new cultures, environments and just about any other aspect that the public can pay for. From the glamorous lives of the Kardashians to the impoverished rustic lives of Amazonian tribesmen, reality television shows explore other worlds, different from the mainstream. Unfortunately, however, ...

Today’s shifting social norms and demographics call for nontraditional enactment of gender and alternative family norms in order to survive. One of the debate issues in society today is work-life balance that is mostly driven by stay-at-home dads. There are various factors that drive stay-at-home dad’s families in society; these factors include human capital, dynamic nature of gendered expectations, as well as economic condition. There are several real-world examples that elaborate the extent of dads staying at home while mother go to work. In fact, stay home dads have various impacts to lifestyle of the family compared ...

ID Number 1. What is your chosen topic, and how did you come across it? Why is it interesting to you? What do you personally hope to gain or accomplish by writing about this topic? My chosen topic concerns “How Society Feels about Stay At Home Dads”. This is very interesting because despite the fact that there is still a small group of stay-at-home fathers, the number has continued to grow rapidly in the United States. In the data gathered by the Census Bureau, the percentage of stay-at-home dads has increased by 1.8% from 2001 to 2011. Over ...

“Five minutes,” my Dad reminded, peering into my room. I quickly glanced at the clock on the nightstandit showed 6:25 a.m. Five minutes later grabbing my backpack, school uniform tie, and blue blazer I rushed down the stairs to the waiting car. Four years ago, this remained the five-year morning routine. Back then, along with my two brothers, I attended a private school located three towns over. On a good day, after picking up the two kids carpooling from their homes located the opposite direction from our route, Dad would deliver us in almost fifty minutes at the school. My idea ...

According to the article, an effective fatherhood participation effort can be one of the most fulfilling factors of a child development program. Dad participation planners, father or mom participation professionals, and other employees working with family members find this manual useful in creating a fun and innovative fatherhood participation plan. A child with adoring and engaged dads and moms is a kid who in life has an amazing "head start"! While both parents use the higher-pitched, slowed-down variation of discussing called “parentese,” dads are likely to speak in a manner that task their kid's creation of language capabilities and educate them about ...

Fostering a child with food, water and security is one thing, nurturing with affection, encouragement and values is other. It is the balance between the two which leads to the wholesome development of a child. But, childrearing is incomplete unless parents delve deep into the mind of a child to analyze his/her contemporary contemplations and age-appropriate behavior. This essay pertains to the very age appropriate behavior in children (5-13 years old) and how parents act in response to it. The study is based on a comprehensive observation of the interaction between various parents and their children in a playground.

In the playground, for an ...

Evolution – The Reality of Existence

This paper deals with two articles and two conversational scripts, each of which tries to emphasize the predominant role and the process of evolutionary development that dates back to our ancestors, and which cascades down to our own lives and plays a role in determining our current behavior and lifestyle. The first article titled Potential Evolutionary Role for Same-Sex Attraction (Association for Psychological Science, 2010), published in the Science Daily on Feb 4, 2010, tries to highlight the role of human evolution in promoting homosexuality amongst men. The article -- based on the research findings of two evolutionary psychologists, ...