chibiamy: Why I Made My Daughter Write An Essay…
Long, long ago, well, several months ago, that is, I tried to get tickets to the Stadium of Fire. I had tried to get tickets, because I had created a Miley Cyrus fan out of my seven year old daughter, and her birthday is in the middle of July. I thought that going to the concert and seeing the fireworks with her two best friends would be a delight for her. Unfortunately, everyone else in Utah had just as good of reasons to want to see the concert and I was unable to get tickets. Thankfully, I have a daughter who is very understanding.
We have been looking together, periodically, for more tickets to the concert. That’s not working out well, either, as it is summer and we are extremely busy. We either miss them, or we’re too busy to look, or she has been away at art camp for two weeks and I just forget.
The near-obsession of Miley Cyrus is my fault. I have been looking for music that my children will enjoy, that is of appropriate subject matter, and all those other little things that parents worry about. All three of my children enjoy music to an equal degree. However, my daughter has really latched onto the girl-empowered themes of Miley Cyrus and Hillary Duff the most. I bought a two-disc cd set of Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana for my daughter and I swear, if you could wear CD’s out, she would have by now.
Now we come to the real subject of this essay: Why I am making my daughter write an essay and turn it into this contest. First of all, I do not expect my essay to be in consideration for the tickets. It is more of a follow-up to my daughter’s. I am making her write an essay because we all need to learn, from an early age on, the value of work. Even if she does not win the contest and does not win the tickets, she is proud that she was able to three hundred plus words together. It is quite the accomplishment for her. She has never had to do an essay of this size before, and the smile on her face after I typed it in, and made spelling corrections, and knowing it was HER own entry – well that is one of the themes of Miley’s music, is it not? She accomplished something, and is better for it. Self-esteem will be everything for her as she grows older, she will need it during the frightening times of just becoming an adolescent, and growing up.
That is why I made my daughter write an essay for this contest.