Can some things be taught or are most things inborn? Persistence is to learn to keep moving forward in spite of how difficult something is. It’s about staying positive through out difficult obstacles to reach a goal. Goals you could reach while being persistent might be buying a car or house, getting a degree, or even trying to get a promotion at work. Sometimes trying to reach a goal can be difficult and you may want to give up but the question still remains who can teach persistence?
In the article “Persistence is learned from Fathers, Says Study” by Mikaela Conley states that “persistence can be taught from fathers by those who listen to their children, having a close relationship, set appropriate rules, and also grant appropriate freedoms” (Conley 9). Fathers who commit to doing this with their children can lead them to a successful path in the future. Teaching persistence is like climbing a ladder, you must teach one step at a time. Showing a child how important and meaningful something is can be done by encouraging them even if they don’t believe in themselves so they can reach their goal. For example, if you tell your child to keep on trying especially when they receive a bad grade in school they will strive to do better next time because you’re persist to keep on going. By letting them know not stop because something is difficult in life like school is teaching them how to be persistent.
Not only fathers can teach their children to be persistent but other family members as well. In Tristan’s memoir he talks about how his parents and grandparents continually reminded him about never giving up on the challenges he had experienced and had to stand up to every challenge that came his way. Tristan’s parents and grandparents taught him how to overcome the challenges like learning how to ride a bicycle step by step. Learning how to ride a bicycle takes times, even though it can be easy with training wheels but a difficult experience to transition from training wheels to riding without it. They pushed him not to give up because he would get it one day. Over time he finally managed to ride a bicycle without training wheels because of his grandparents were so supportive toward his difficult struggle to ride a bicycle.
Even though parents can help teach how to be persistence so can Health Care Professionals. In Jeff’s memoir he states that he had a difficult struggle with his weight during his high school years. He also wanted to play football but because of his weight his blood pressure was too high. He struggled a long time dealing with this but over time someone helped him. His mother’s friend, a nutritionist had helped him with some knowledge how to live a healthy lifestyle. The nutritionist taughted what’s good to eat and what’s not, good eating habits and how to read the nutrition facts of products. He struggles with his weight and want’s to do something but doesn’t know how till the nutritionist helps him. He then sets a goal to lose weight from all the advice he had received. He started going to the gym to achieve his this goal over time. Losing weight can not happened over one day or one week it takes lots of time, dedication and persistence toward reaching the goal. Having a health care professional teaching someone how to reach a goal with some basic knowledge on a topic has taught Jeff how to be persistent to lose weight in this milestone in life. Not only has he learned a lot about the body works but he now has the mindset to reach his goal in the future.
Although parents, grandparents and health care professional can teach persistence in the article “Can kids be Taught Persistence?” by Jennie Rose quotes “ that’s a skill that parents can certainly help their children develop – but so can teachers and coaches and mentors and neighbors and lots of people” (Rose 4). This states that parents can teach persistent but community helps can too. For example, teachers can help students with learning math like fractions and to keep trying to solve the math problem until it’s solved. Coaches can by learning to deal with failure when they lose a game. Mentors teach how to be persistence by guiding students to the correct lane and helping with life issues.
However, persistence takes time to overcome, it’s about wanting to get somewhere – reaching the top. Almost like climbing a mountain, as you climb you see the top as much as you want to get to the top to see the view. You must continue to struggle each step to reach the goal. Anyone can teach you how to be persistence from parents, grandparents, health care workers, teachers, coaches and much more but it all relies on you doing the continued effort to reach top of it all. You must put everything in to get what you want in life, the people helping you is just one step closer to the prize.
Work Cited Page:
Conley, Mikaela. “Persistence Is Learned from Fathers, Says Study.” ABC News. ABC News
Network, 15 June 2012. Web. 03 Mar. 2014.
Rose, Jennie. “Can Kids Be Taught Persistence?” MindShift. Blogs.kqed.org, July 2012. Web. 03
Mar. 2014.
http://tristanridesflat.edublogs.org/2014/02/17/memoir-final/
http://jeffstew.edublogs.org/2014/02/03/memoir-rough-draft-persistence/
very nice! reading about my memoir made me realize i forgot to use a student source in mine…but i can only say one thing about this. maybe talk a little about getting that promotion at work only since you brought it up in the first paragraph.
As a general framework this works pretty well. You’ve posed a clear question (How can persistence best be taught?) and draw together some relevan tinfo to ehp answer that question. (Remember to use in-text citaitons for student essays, which also need a full citationon Works cited page, which does *not* include URL.)
The paragraphs seem to develop more by giving examples of *who* can teach persistence, rather than how it can be taught, though. The quesiotn of how seems a deeper, more interesting quesiton to me. In terms of “how” you seem to say just tell them they can do it. Is there anything else you found or can think of (form your own experience, student blogs, or theoretical articles)?
Structurally I’d just intorruce the question (with some examples) in intro–saving the references to outside sources for your first body paragraph.