The relationship between children and parents from the 2 essays: Nights Below Station Street and Joy Luck Club.

Children and Parent's relationship In the modern society, there is often a lack of communication between parents and their children. One can simply open the daily newspaper to find teenagers committing suicide or various crimes due to stress derived from family issues. These incidents reveal the importance of parents' communication with their children. Love for their children is within every parent, which is frequently revealed through the concern they show. David Adams Richards illustrates this …

…uses a small community to show the relationship between children's thoughts and their behaviors. Where the author of Joy Lucky Club uses the whole Chinese culture to present the relationships between them in general. A simple misunderstanding of their parent's love for them would in time influence the children's behavior and attitude. Thus, if children and parents have more communication with one another, parents would be able to help their children shape a better future.