all you need is love

As I feel the class coming closer to it’s end, and as I continue to write my paper, I feel a deeper connection with one of the many points raised in class last week. The specific point I am thinking about is the idea of “All you need is love,” with respect to Neal and Regina Pollack’s approach to providing a nurturing, fulfilling, and loving relationship with and childhood for their son Elijah, despite their many problems (drugs, lack of money, in-law problems etc). As I think about my potential parenting utopia, and how I will avoid the many pitfalls like the ones the various authors we have read this semester have faced, I think that above money, providing childcare, and securing a good job, I feel confident that the best strategy to achieving a parenting utopia is the “All you need is love” approach. Despite facing many heartaches and pitfalls in my own life, and witnessing first hand many of the problems that faced the various authors, face my own parent’s marriage, I know that I only turned out as well and as content as I have, because they always embraced the “All you need is love” approach when raising me. I am striving to convey this message throughout my paper and my idea of parenting utopia, because I feel that it is the best way to maintain a parenting utopia. Without love, a family cannot appreciate all of their other perks in their life, such as money, childcare, good jobs, and altogether happiness. It is important to try to correct the bad habits in life such as in Neal’s case, smoking pot. However, even when the bad habits still exist, or even when other hardships ensure in life, it is important to give the gift of love. This will build a solid relationship like the one in Alternadad, make life easier, and parenting utopias will become more and more attainable.