Family Matters Writing Prompt August 2022
What’s your parenting style?
Happy summer and happy August
July has been consistently hot here in metro-Detroit Michigan. We only had a handful of days where the high temp of the day was below 89 degrees F.
August Prompt — Let’s different parenting styles.
Have you adopted any strategies from your birth family? Are you a permissive parent? Are you a disciplinarian? Do you give more quality or quantity of time to your children? Do you point your children in a direction, or do you let them discover things for themselves? Let’s find out about your style of parenting and how you children react.
Whatever it is, we want to hear about it.
There is no right or wrong answer to this prompt. As long as it’s your truth, that’s what matters. Family Matters is always a safe place to share your perspectives on family and parenting.
Rules:
· Your piece needs to be a minimum of 800 words.
· Poetry is not accepted.
· It must be written for the reader. Pieces that are written in the style of a diary entry generally do not give anything to the reader. Think about what message you want to get across. How do you want the reader to feel after they have finished your piece? Is there anything you want them to learn or look at differently?
· Tag your work with “prompt”
· Your work has to be related to family and/or parenting. Please tag your work with one or both of these.
· If you would like to enter this challenge but are not a writer for Family Matters, please email an unpublished Medium draft of your entry to familymatterspublication@gmail.com with “August 2021 Prompt” as the subject.
· If you are currently a writer for Family Matters, submit your piece as you would with any other submission.
· Follow Medium’s Curation Guidelines
· Please read our Submission Guidelines and FAQs for more information.
The winner will be announced in August’s Newsletter. Make sure you are subscribed to it!
We are excited to read your entries.
Good luck!
Terrie and everyone at Family Matters
