-Children are experiments. Compare to science experiment.
-Why this applies to me
-Advocation for education
^Since when did the Common App long essay have to do with discussing your academic plans?
I mean who taught our parents to be parents anyways. Whoever it was obviously didn't do a very good job. Why couldn't my dad be the type that takes the whole family fishing or my mom be the next Sarah Lee cooking us warm, homemade meals everyday? But the reality is that no one taught our parents to be parents.
^A parent's basic job is to provide shelter, food and the means of survival for their children. Parents can learn how to be parents from their friends, culture, religion and /or relatives. Also, parents can rely on their parental instinct on how to raise their children.
If a father taking the family fishing or a mother being a good cook is your definition of 'parenting', and failure to do these activities allows you to say that 'I mean who taught our parents to be parents', then I am sorry. These are just selfish wants that perhaps you longed and never got.
My father may never have taken me fishing. Does that mean that he is not doing a good job, or that he has received poor advice on parenting? Even if my friend's father never took him/her fishing, I would not question his father's parenting skills or how he learned how to become a father.
This whole concept of yours, altogether, shows a very poor understanding of parental relationships.
*I felt quite discouraged to read the rest of your essay, because I have a feeling it is just going to delve into this whole 'parenting' topic and how it is a personal issue and important to you. I do not think you understand, or know enough, to write a decent essay on it, judging from that paragraph I have just commented on.