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* * Unit 2 Growing Up Warm-up Questions 1. How did you feel about your parents when you were a child? Did your attitude towards them change when you grew into a teenager? Explain the change, if any. 2.Recall a conflict you once had with your parents. Explain why you were upset by your parents. 3.What would you do when you could not agree with your parents? Use an incident from daily life to support the description. * * * * Read and Think Directions: Here is an inspirational story about the love between fathers and children. Read carefully and answer a few questions. Questions: When the boy was young, why did he think that boys and grown men should not cry? What kind of man had the boy thought his father was? What incident changed his understanding of his father? What did he realize after his talk with his father in the dark? * * Read and Think The Day My Father Cried When I was young, I thought that boys and grown men shouldn’t cry. Tears were signs of being weak and sissy, which a man isn’t supposed to be. This was even reinforced in my young mind when the Cure came out with the song, “Boys Don’t Cry,” in the early 1980s. But just this last June, I discovered that courage isn’t all about trying to keep all the pain inside. Courage isn’t all about trying to hide tears. It’s the opposite — tears reinforce the heart’s courage. And I saw this in my father. My 18-year old sister died in a traffic accident. With it, I saw how vulnerable my father’s heart was. My siblings and I were used to seeing him as an iron-willed, authoritarian father. * * Read and Think For three days after my sister died, he wouldn’t talk. He would just sit quietly outside our house in the dark. On the fourth night, I sat beside him and asked him to tell me what he feels about everything. It had been years since I laid my hand on my father’s shoulder last time as we drifted farther and farther apart while I was growing up. That night though, I sensed my father trying to control his pain a