Parenting Paradigms In The Glass Castle

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Parenting Paradigms in The Glass Castle
In “The Glass Castle” by Jeanette Walls shows Rex and Rosemary falling into the uninvolved parenting paradigms. Rex and Rosemary have very few demands for their children. Jeanette looks back to a time when she was toddler. “My earliest memory. I was three years old…I was wearing a dress to cook hotdog...then the flames leaded up reaching my face” (3). Jeanette Walls implies that her mother tells her that for her age she is very mature and can handle cooking hotdogs. While these parents try to fulfill basic needs of the children they also tend to detach from theirs life (Cherry). Jeanette flashbacks to a moment where her and her siblings were left alone unattended “We were parked outside of a bar in
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