None Is Enough

           In the article “None is Enough” By Lauren Slander, the author makes the audience think about the opportunities that you have when you are “childless”. I think that Lauren Slander brings up many good points in her article of why people do not have children. In the beginning Slander gives the audience a real life example as to why this girl does not want to have kids. The girl sees that her mom has to work extra hard just to serve her kids and that she is spending most of her life working and does not want to do that when she gets older. I can see where Laura Scott is coming from because when you factor in all of the things that a mother has to do to support her family, it is amazing. This article made me change the way I look at people that do not have kids because I now realize why some people are doing this. The article tells the audience on page 43 that women can lose some $1 million for women who get off of their career track and become a parent. Also on that page the text says that parents spend $234,900 until they are 18 and $390,000 if the household earns over $100,000. Now that is some serious dough ray me.  My perspective is now that women that do not have children in some ways were smart. They do not have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on their kids and can use their money on themselves. The problem that comes up down the road is: who will take care of you when you are older if you don’t have kids? These women now face a problem that could impact the latter parts of their life. If you have kids than when a women gets older she hopes that one of her kids will take her of her when she gets old and sick. Childless women will now have to live in a nursing home for the rest of the time she is sick, with random people that she just met. Another reason why women do not have kids is because they just scare them. Margaret Cho says “Babies scare me more than anything.” This could happen to anybody because everybody has some type of fear and for Margaret it is babies. I can see where she is coming from because babies will do whatever they want to. Something that caught my eye is the statistics on page 42. It says that 33% of women believe that children increase your social standard. If that is true than the rest of the people have children for the love of children or just because. Before I read this article I assumed that women who did not have children were strange because they were not expanding their family tree, but after reading this article I got a better understanding for why people become “childless.”

Interview

Me: Kiera is a mother of three whose children's names are Ryan who is 16, Jolie who is 13 and Michael who is 11. Her and her family live in a suburban town called Mansfield. I am here to ask her about her family and how she raised her kids.

Me: Hello Kiera, how are you doing today?
M: I am doing great thanks for asking.
Me: Ok, great, let's get started. Do you think growing up with no siblings made you want to have kids or did it not effect you?
M: Yes it did. I knew I wanted to have more than one kid because I knew that living with a sibling is more fun than being by yourself.
Me: Interesting, next question. Do You like the age differences between the kids?
M: Yes, I love the age difference, because everybody is not too old or too young.
Me: Nice, How difficult was I when I was a kid?
M: You were a very easy baby, you were a very great sleeper and always active. The only problem with that is that we could never settle you down because you were always active.
Me: I knew I was easy. What is the toughest part about parenting?
M: Definitely, saying no when you know it is the thing, but the kids will be mad.
Me: This is an easy question, did you love watching me play sports?
M: Of course I did!
Me:What is your favorite part of parenting?
M: Easy, seeing how wonderful my kids ended up and taking pride in the successes that you kids have.
Me: Do you get extra excitement when I do well?
M: Absolutely, I love to see you do well in basketball.
Me: Yeah basketball is fun. Would you change where we grew up?
M: No, I love the community and the people in it. I just wish that Mansfield had a Y or a rec center.
Me: I agree that would make Mansfield better. How much have we as kids changed your life?
M: Every facet of my life is different. I had to work from home when I had Jolie, I started to know a lot more people in the town and I became involved in town activities.
Me: Wow! That's a big change. Have you ever been mad at one of us for an extended amount of time?
M: .......no, I only get mad for a short period of time then I am fine.
Me: Okay, last question. I am your favorite right?
M: I do not have favorites.
Me: Oh ok whatever you say. It was a pleasure talking to you today, thank you for your time.
M: Thank you for having me today.

Lil P Nut

The best child rapper-

http://mp3skull.com/mp3/p_nut_you_might_be_the_one.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqaamaWfeOU

Love: JaVale McGee

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Daily Exposure

I personally like daily exposures. They make me think about different topics that you would not think about in a normal setting in class. The daily exposures let me express what I like in that specific topic not just listening to what people have to say in the class. The daily exposures let you just sit and express for five minutes in class to get a different view on something. Two specific daily exposures that I liked a lot were the Miles Davis one and Flawed By Andrea Dorfman. For the Miles Davis one we had to write for 6 minutes while the song was playing and could write about whatever we wanted. I personally liked it because I was able to express my creativity because there was not any criteria on what to write on. I liked Flawed because it made you realize that everybody has their own flaws and your flaw might be different than your friends flaw and that the flaws are what make you special in your own way.

Flifferhuzza

Sheryl walked across the street to the new bar that just opened of called WKOTD. It was opened by a few friends who wanted to make some money. Every night a band would play and tonight the band was King Will and His Dwarfs. "That is a funny name", Sheryl said. It is a funny name, apparently he got it when he was a Junior in high school, but nobody knows for sure. The King and his Dwarfs played some flifferhuzza songs with some flifferhuzza beats. The whole crowd new that this band would be famous one day, but not for the reason they thought. After the show Sheryl went up to talk to King Will, "Hey Will do you want to go grab a bite to eat at Applebee's." asked Sheryl. "Sure", replied King Will. They left the bar(in Sheryl's car because will doesn't even have his permit) and went straight to Applebee's. On the car ride their they were listening to some flifferhuzza songs, "this is so FLIFFERHUZA" screamed Will. During the car ride Will would sing at the top of his lungs to every song. Granted Will had a very flifferhuza voice, it was getting annoying for Sheryl. As they walked in to Applebee's Will was about to say "a party for 2", but nothing came out of his mouth. He sat there speechless, he didn't know what to do, so he did what he has always loved to do...Sing. The problem was when he tried, there was not one sound. So Sheryl drove Will straight to the hospital, after looking at Will the doctor knew that he had the case of the flifferhuzzain, which meant he was having so much fun singing, that he could never sing again. From that point on King Will and His Dwarfs were known as "shoulda, coulda, woulda" band and would forever be forgotten.

                                                                THE END

Difficult Conversation

JaVale and Paul are best friends, but they share the same interest in one thing. Paul has to break the news to JaVale in a difficult conversation.

PAUL: Hey JaVale how are you today?
JAVALE: Good??? Why did you ask that? You never talk like that.
PAUL: No reason, I'm just in a good mood, that's all.
JAVALE: Ok.... Well I can't do anything today because I am hanging out with Shaniqua.
PAUL: Ya well about that you probably cannot do that today.
JAVALE: WHY???!!!!
PAUL: I was just thinking that maybe you guys should take a break for a little bit.\
JAVALE: Why would you suggest that.
PAUL: Because I'm mister steal yo girl.
JAVALE: WHATTT???
PAUL: I'm out.