Bonds

Arguably, one of the most important bonds between human beings is the parent to child bond. This crucial relationship shapes the child into what he becomes in the future. In biology, there is something called nature vs. nurture. Nature is the genes which play a role in determining your genotype and phenotype. Nurture is the environmental factors that also contribute to this. For example, height is determined both by one's genes and the environment. If one were to sleep 5 hours a day rather than 8 hours a day, he would be shorter than his potential peak height. Similarly, the relationship between child and parent provides an important environmental factor in determining the child's personality.

I have heard of many cases in which children are misguided by their parents and eventually these children end up in the news for a crime. Thankfully in my family, my parents have raised me to be an angelic, compassionate, hard-working child who never disobeys a command. Sike. Anyone who knows me well should have immediately been mind-blown and removed my ethos as a writer. Well, it's not like I had any to begin with. Although I am not the idealistic child a parent could wish for, I turned out alright in the end. If it wasn't for my parents' care, love, and devotion towards raising me I probably would have been a very different person now. 

In "Shooting Dad" and "Arm Wrestling with My Father," both writers explore their loving relationship with their father. Each essay describes how important he means to them. Surely this relationship is their most memorable, as they wouldn't have written about it otherwise. 

The parent and child bond should be unbreakable--tougher than James Bond, more exciting than a government bond, and stronger than a polar-covalent bond.