Blog 34 - Commonplace Activity

So today we continuously just wrote topics that came to head for our commonplace papers. I wrote continuously and ended up with a two and a half page list of 44 different topics. I started to read over them again and I really liked a lot of them, and now i'm having a hard time picking my favorite one. My last one was the one that caught my attention first. It was: Often there are teenagers who, noticing that their parents are often not around, become a "parent" to their younger sibling. They, as a teen who often had no parents around, grew up very independently and now feel the need to baby their younger sibling after what they went through to raise themselves. I liked this topic, but I also had one that was: With the parents that are rarely around, how do the relationships between a rich parent and their child differ from a lower-income parent and their child. Though both parents are rarely present whether working a dead end minimum wage job, or always off on business trips, does the socioeconomic states of these families affect their relationships? I'm probabbly going to use the one about the independent child bringing up the sibling. I just don't see how parents are okay with that, putting such a big responsibility on their child. And how that affects the relationship between the eldest child and the parents. If not that I might write a satire that says parents shouldn't even bother talking to their teens, that the relationship is best when no one talks or communicates. So its between these three, but most likely the first one.