Parents Help Develop Their Child in Many Ways

Synthesis Writing for Pay It Forward, Five People You Meet in Heaven.

In the books Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde and The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, they both provide many examples that parents play important roles in a young person's life. Parents help develop their child in many ways. They can even play a major role in determining what their child future is. There is many things a parent can and can not do to either help the child out in the long run or negatively affect the child's future.

In the book Pay It Forward the mother Arlene does everything she possibly can to give her son Trevor the life she never had. She was a alcoholic that went to rehab to better herself for her son. Arlene didn't know it at the time but her son Trevor changed the World more than either of them could of imagined. He not only changed his mother's life by trying to get her and his teacher Ruben to date, but he came up with this idea to "pay it forward" which helped out millions of people over time (Hyde 62). If it wasn't for him seeing how hard his mother worked to support him, he would not of be as appreciative of everything he had.

With any child if the parent neglects them, and lets the child run around and do what he or she pleases. The child will not be cooapritive, and in the long run they will not know what it takes to buckle down and get the job done. As well if the parent is striked and has the child follow all their rules the child will know what is right from wrong. If the parent is responsible and talks to the child about what is expected of them the child will know what to do, and when to do it.

Like in The Five People You Meet In Heaven Eddie's father neglected him and did not pay him much attention growing up, this drove Eddie to hate his father. Eddie's father would not even share his birthday with him. On Eddie's fifth Micky who is Eddies dad's friend had to give Eddie his "birthday bumps" while Eddie's father is playing cards in the corner (Albom 24). Eddie's mother did show him love although his father didn't. His father expected had a lot of expectations for Eddie. Even though Eddie was the younger brother, his father told him to stick up for his older brother whenever he needed to. Once Eddie heard his older brother screaming from a ally, so he went over there to find his brother getting