Although both passages host strategies that can overcome the difficulty of parenting, only the essay "The Most Powerful Question a Parent Can Ask..." written by Neil Millar shows a …show more content…
The antagonist in the story was the mother who tried to force her child into becoming a "Doer" and not floundering around as a "Be-er". She was a person who needed a reason for everything and had to always be doing something not enjoying life, juxtaposed to his father who was a "Be-er" who was happy with a slower life, enjoying and basking in the moments. Though this is much more relaxed approach to life, she sees this as a threat and does not want to see her son grow up into a "Be-er" and aggressively attacks his way of life trying to enforce change rather then progressively nudge someone into changing. In the end he never changed because her strategy was to attack his personality rather then suggest, reason, and try and tell him the positives of doing something her