Pre-writing and Exercises for Credo Essay

Pre-writing and Exercises for Credo Essay

Credo:

      I believe as a parent, I am my children’s first and most important teacher. As parents when we bring a child into the world, I feel that it is our responsibility to teach them everything we can and if there’s something we can’t teach them, provide them the resources that can teach them. We as parents determine our child’s success in life by what we offer them from the time they enter the world. We start off teaching our children love, trust, and nurturing and then build on that.

Exercise 2:

     After reading and evaluating the This I Believe Essays I thought these individual authors make it seem so easy to put their feeling and beliefs onto paper. When I read “Always Go to the Funeral” by Dierdre Sullivan I thought, how many times have I talked myself out of going to a funeral just because of pure selfishness? The times I didn’t go just because I was uncomfortable, never caring about how the family of the one who passed away would feel if I paid my respects. All of these women who wrote their own I Believe Essays a unique way of presenting something they believe in. I found it interesting how Phyllis Allen who wrote “Leaving Identity Issues to Other Folks” changed her beliefs throughout the decades with the changing country. She evolved throughout the years with society. One essay I really couldn’t relate to was “Be Cool To The Pizza Delivery Dude”. I grew up in a rural area and I never got a chance to experience the crazy driving pizza guy, but I do believe in being gracious and kind to people. I guess I had never put into that kind of perspective before. All in all, these were good reads and were helpful with my own I Believe essay.