Parents make great sacrifices for the care of their children. Day after day, parents protect their children from danger, attend to their cries, and reassure them after a bad dream. Parents give up necessities for their children everyday. In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, the father displays the sacrifices he makes for his son. The father builds a fire with “cracked hands that ached” (1-5). He takes no thought for his own comfort or pain. The father would also rise early “in the blueblack cold” and relight the fire (1-5). Stacey Burleson describes the father as “not only bringing physical warmth to him by making a fire; he is al

As parents, trust and love need to be the motivators in guiding children, authority can become power, and power must not be used to break a child’s will. An important factor in discipline is in developing positive and unique relationships with children. For example, in the play Fences by August Wilson the father uses positive discipline when punishing his son, Cory, for defying him. Cory quits his job at the local A&P store to play football. When his father, Troy, finds out he says, “Get your job back, and if you can’t do both [work and play football] then you quit the football team”(1336). Troy requires Cory to work hard so he will grow up to become a successful man. As a result, by insisting Cory to get his job back, Troy corrects his child with positive punishment to make him a better person. “He also succeeds in alienating his son by standing in the way to his playing professional football, preferring instead that Cory keep his job at the local A&P and get a good education”(Sandra 127). In addition, parents determine which actions are safe or dangerous and obtain a boundary among the two that children may not obstruct. The daughter in Dudley Randall poem “Ballad of Birmingham” wants to participate in “a civil rights rally, the loving and fearful mother refuses to let

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