WHAT MAKES A PERFECT PARENT

I thought the authors did a good job making correlations between all the different examples which they gave. One can’t really say what makes one a good parent, in my perception there are no books or written work which can make one a good parent. because every child learns differently, let’s not forget that nurture has something to do with it, the environment and the surroundings, like in the book the author mentions about changing neighborhoods and how the child will develop well, however he also says that it doesn’t matter, and I would disagree because we are forgetting the fact that school are funded by taxes which are paid by those citizens, in other words if the child is in a neighborhood where there are good kids, less crime, and well developed people, then the child is likely to be good. Although there will be that percentage of kids who are not affected by the environment and will keep on being bad. In the book the author says that white kids are better than black kids academically and this is because of how they are raised and based on their environment. So shouldn’t he conclude by saying, indeed environment does have an impact on the development of the child.
the author makes a correlation between the number of books in the child's house and how smart they are, where he concludes saying the number of books in a household doesn’t mean the child is a good reader or smarter, and I agree with his comment because I know kids who happen to have libraries in their homes but have no clue what is in the books. The number of books has no correlation with how smart a kid can be. I was glad that the senator who the author mentions in the book, whose plan was to send a book to every child didn’t work out because; it would have been a waste of the tax payer's money.