Katie Hulse & The Family

 There are many types of families: nuclear, single parent, childless, and blended--to name a few. I'm sure many of you reading this fall into a category other than nuclear, and we all fall into at least one. Personally, I belong to a nuclear family. Even though I don't currently live with my parents, I still have my mother, father, two younger sisters, and little brother. I have relatives that cohabit, are single parents, are childless, and have blended families. No family is perfect, even if they appear to be so. A family composed of a mother and three children may be better off than a household with two parents and three kids. Yes, the traditional family is composed of two parents--a mother and father--and then children, and it has been proven that, on average, children in those types of households fare better in school and stay out of trouble. However, I still want to instill the idea that all types of families are valid no matter what. Now, I would like to share a few quot...

 What do you consider to be the most controversial part of parenting? First off, how many aspects are there of parenting to begin with? Off the top of my head, I can think of the following: discipline, care, provide, and love. You can probably think of more. Of course, everyone parents their children differently. No one can tell someone else how they should raise their children. That's why I consider different methods of taking disciplinary action to be controversial. Now, in what ways can taking disciplinary action vary from parent to parent? Of course, there's the fact that all parents are different, as I mentioned earlier. There are parents that don't believe in harsh consequences, while there are those that only use harsh ones. There are parents that let only the natural consequences follow suit, but sometimes those kinds of consequences can be dangerous or are considered "insufficient." But anyway, as I said, parents will parent how they see fit. The first po...