After reading the article, "The Achievement of
Desire," by Richard Rodriguez, I started thinking a lot about how it was
for me at home with my parents when I was younger. I remember my parents
helping me with my homework a lot when I was growing up. Sometimes I would be
doing math homework that focussed on percentages and my dad would help me with
it. I noticed that his was his strong suit. He enjoyed helping me with it and
would constantly ask me questions like, "What is 20% of 36?!"
wherever we went. Him and I still speak of this today and how him giving me
that extra knowledge really excelled me in that area of math. I still thank him
when I am sitting in a restaurant and can calculate the tip pretty
quickly.
On the other hand, my mom
has always been interested in helping me with the subject English in school.
She always wanted to know what ‘great novel’ I was reading in high school and
we would always have conversations when we were both home about a part of the
book I had just finished. Another example was last semester when I took a
Humanities class here at CSU Chico. My mom is very interested in the arts and
when I told her I was taking this course she immediately asked what material I
would be reading. When I told her I was reading Frankenstein by Mary
Shelley, she told me she had it in her bookshelf at home and wanted to re-read
it while I was reading it for class.
Both of my parents have
always supported my education and I really thank them for that. Both of them
went to college and they expected me to do the same. My mom has worked in
child-care for over 15 years and I think that is where I get the interest of working
with children.
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