Title
Document Type
Definition Essay
Publication Date
1983
Excerpt
I have been a mother for twelve years. I have been to sixteen Christmas programs, thirteen school plays, and four music recitals. I have attended thirty-six P.T.O. meetings, forty-three Girl Scout meetings, and seventeen parent-teacher conferences. I have seen pint-size Pilgrims cross the Atlantic in a cardboard Mayflower. I have assisted in the construction of a workable paper-mache volcano. I've spent countless hours watching and coaching basketball, volleyball, and baseball games. I've read Dr. Spock, Piaget, and Erma Bombeck. I am well acquainted with Dr. Seuss and Judy Blume. I am not a child psychologist or an expert in family relationships, but I believe my experience with my own children and the parade of their friends that has marched through my kitchen in the last twelve years qualifies me to classify children into four recognizable categories. The four categories that I will describe here are The Whiner, The Spoiled Brat, The Perpetual Motion Machine, and The Good Kid.
Recommended Citation
Halcarz, Virginia, "Four Bookworms (1983)" (1983). The Valpo Core Reader. 155.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/155