As our lives in the modern world evolve technologically, not as many people have to worry about physical work. Rising concerns among parents with children who solely rely on technology as their solution to everyday problems originally fought by rigorous labor. Ben Sasse is one of the most worried individuals who is fighting for change. In his essay, “What to Do with the Kids This Summer? Put ‘Em to Work”, he uses evidence, personal experience, and predictability to persuade his adult audience to step up and make a change for their children. Sasse’s argument is a powerful source of advice that can be taken to ensure successful children's futures, like mine. The younger the children are, the more they disagree with Sasse’s argument. Since his …show more content…
Sasse puts his first sighting here, “Over and over, faculty members and administrators noted how their students’ limited experience with hard work made them oddly fuzzy-headed when facing real-world problems rather than classroom tests.” Children’s knowledge should not only be directed upon education but also be equally split among other issues with the same significance. I see this as a very accurate representation of personal experience. Additionally to his reference, Sasse asks a question that sparked many parent’s attention, “What is the modern equivalent of detasseling corn?” This made many parents look closer at their children’s lifestyles and compare them to theirs when they were their children’s age. Sasse’s goal was to make us realize the issues with our lifestyles now, and making this analogy pointed out heavily. One of the main arguments Sasse had was, “Done right, adolescence is a greenhouse phase, but adolescence should not be an escape from adulthood; it should be when we learn how to become adults.” This powerful statement put me and others into a state of …show more content…
This brings us to today where all these adolescents do not know how to do actual work outside of school due to the relaxation they take for granted. Even with Sasse’s powerful arguments and statements, some things are a sign of biased opinion that neglects the parent’s efforts. One of these opinions is, “Our efforts to protect our kids from hurt feelings, tedious chores, money worries, and the like are well-intentioned.” This does not apply to all parents or guardians that raise their children. There is a lack of evidence to illustrate that all parents guide their children this way, making this a disagreeable statement discouraging parents who assume they are doing the right thing. A controversial line by Sasse was, “Parents, on the whole, had fewer household labor needs and could afford to spare their kids the less pleasant experiences of their own childhoods.” Many parents with these experiences still push their children to experience the same situations they did. Not all parents decide to let their kids, in a way, slack around. Many nowadays still push their children even if their attitude does not show in specific
“A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much” written by Catherine Rampell is an informative article about today’s millennial generation after high school. It provides the reader with a deeper look into young people’s work ethic, or what some to think to be, lack-there-of. The author does a fantastic job using research, credible resources, and statistics to support her belief that Generation Y (children born in the 1980s and 1990s) is no less productive than previous generations. I will admit that before reading this piece, I was one of those who believed that Millennials were in fact the “coddled, disrespectful and narcissistic generation” (Rampell, 2011, para 3). After reading this article, my opinion has changed. It has touched on issues
When Enrenreich said, “No one wants to put the kids to work again,” I all but looked up from the reading looking around as if to say who’s parent is that, for truly she had not met my mother or any of her friends. I believe that my parents want more for me. They want and expect me to achieve more than they did. For them putting me to work was the first step to achieving greater goals. I remember my last month home before starting college. My dad told me that I was going to mow the lawn once before I left. It took me three hours to mow the front and back yards. It was not until I spoke to my dad later that I learned that the lawnmower had a lever which I could have used to make the mowing easier and faster. That is to say, undenounced to me, I pushed and pulled a fully self-propelled lawn mower for three hours that afternoon. My parent aren’t the ones, cannot be the one’s Enrenriech is talking about. Part of the way my parents were raised may have to do with the way they raised me, but for now Enrenriech article only works to strengthen my commitment to both my dad and mom for everything they have done for
Response: I agree with Steinberg that working affects adolescents that are going to school. I believe that teenagers should concentrate on their studies and not become overwhelmed with the added stress of work. There is plenty of time for them to learn the “real world” of working, so why not let them be kids and have them worry about their homework and after school chores, rather than trying to make the almighty dollar.
Technology has become a pivotal factor in human history. It has helped build and develop the modern society we see today. However, the more recent and advanced technology is becoming, it is also making a change for the worst as well. Ray Bradbury is trying to show us that technology can consume a human beings life. Whether it is in construction, a factory, or the food industry etc., technology has impressed society to the point of replacing humans in the workforce. Not only has technology negatively affected the adults working in our society, but it has also impacted the development of children in this new generation of smartphones and tablets. Most millennials probably remember the generation above them saying “back in my day we didn't have
One of the most important factors believed to influence a child are parents. Parents are known to share a distinctive bond with their children. This special bond is what enables parents to shape their children. Whether it is into free-willed adolescents, ready to challenge any controversy, or into caring adults willing to spend the seventy cents a day to save a poverty stricken child. Parents have the power to mold their children. Setting firm, yet sensible, guidelines teaches children discipline and good behavior. Using physical abuse produces aggressive children, but having patience and understanding leaves a child better capable to handle stress in later years. How parents raise their children influences how they will turn out (Begley, p. 53).
Parents and guardians are the foundations of a child’s morality. If a juvenile grows up without a guardian present, they are consequently more susceptible to media influences than teachers in the classroom. Barber studied the hours of kids in and out of school, “Our kids spend 900 hours in school and from 1,200 to 1,800 hours a year in front of the television set.” Children without a parent present believe the influences they view on television more than what they learn in the classroom. But, if a guardian teaches their child about the value of education, children will be active in the classroom and will be motivated to achieve academic excellence. But, if a parent takes an active role in a child’s life, and they expound on the importance of education, their child will strive to value education as well. If a parent is present in a child’s life and deems education unimportant, this will cause their child to not value education either. Barber did a study on what seventeen-year-olds know and what forty-seven-year-olds know and the results were the same. In response to the study, Barber says, “The illiteracy of the young turns out to be our own reflected back to us with embarrassing force.” Children look up to their parents and if parent’s value materialism, but preach about school, children ultimately value materialism because of their
By presenting certain uses of statistics, diction, and expert testimonies, Jeffrey Selingo supports his overall statement that teens and college students should work while pursuing their education because it is impactful for their future. To begin, Selingo presents statistics and a timeline to illustrate the problem. Selingo advises on page 1 that the rate of overall teenagers in the workforce during school has “dropped from 40% in 1990 to just 20 percent today” (Selingo). Using statistics like these contributes to the overall claim by making his essay logical, and displays that he has done the research needed to prove his thesis. It reveals how he wants the reader to understand where he is coming from, and why his claim is a poignant issue that needs to be worked on using the stats given.
As years go by, teenagers have been getting lazier and lazier. Read the article “What to do with the kids this summer? Put them to work”, the author “Ben Sasse” argues that teenagers do not want to work a summer job. He uses appeals such as credibility and emotion to support his argument. The author uses the appeal of credibility in order to support his argument that teenagers do not want to work a summer job.
Smartphones are ubiquitous. Nowadays, adolescents are changing their lifestyle by depending on their smartphones and entrusting on the Internet to guide them to become successful and exceptional. However, most adolescents do not realize that they are growing up to become independent and taking responsibilities to shape their life. They depend on their parents because they fear making mistakes on their own. One of the aspects that adolescents are struggling to demonstrate these strengths is at the workplace. Kathryn Tyler, a writer and generalist, writes an article called “The Tethered Generation” to emphasize that today’s generation are becoming Millennials without understanding how to be committed to their jobs. While Tyler conveys her message
Current teens are investing more time into their educational careers, with the thought of less labor help being needed. In his article, Thompson uses ethos to show some points of decreases in teen summer jobs. “The rise may be directly related to the fact that parents and high schools are encouraging students to take on more classwork, according to Ben Steverman, a Bloomberg reporter who covers teen employment.” (Thompson 5) That sentence informed the reader by saying how much adults are enforcing school work on teens.
Although the living conditions of children are getting lot better than when we were kids, the children study more time than we did. The pupils have to get up at earlier than 7 o 'clock to make sure they won’t be late for school. Not only have that, these pupils still had to participate in various after school program, and a lot of variety of training during the weekends. The most pressure is homework. As a summer school teacher, I always can hear kids say that the teacher gave them too much work, had to spend two hours a day to compete the homework, and have no time to play. Is it too much pressure for the kids? That is the question for most of the parents. What should the parents as should do to let these children relax and do not have that much pressure? The author of Help Children Form Good Study Habit, Erika A.Patall points out those parents should not help children do their homework because they need their own practice. Not only that, the author of The
Purported Tool, Actual Impediment The growing reliance on technology is rewiring childhood development and stunting entire generations as a result. Technological developments meant to improve the overall standard of living have proven to be exceptionally damaging. The far more risk averse and monitored parenting system only serves to exacerbate the problem: a systematic alteration in life stemming from raising children in the clutches of a phone-based childhood. In “The Terrible Costs Of A Phone Based Childhood,” Jonathan Haidt elaborates on the critical state that a supposed tool has rendered the entire population.
Due to parents having to take on 2-3 part-time jobs or low wage jobs, parents are required to deal with long hours, unusual hours, lack of benefits that cover paid sick days, paid medical, parental leave, and vacation time. This prevents parents from participating in their children’s development. (Spross, Jeff. "Low-Wage Jobs Don’t Just Harm Workers — They Harm Their Children." ThinkProgress RSS. 7 Dec. 2012. Web. 5 Oct. 2014.) Parents are not home to look after their children. When parents are home, it is for a short period that allows parents to feed the children, bath them and put them to bed. Parents have to choose their family time or making income and income is priority to try and provide the necessary needs like a home, electric, and food. This struggle between income and family has put tremendous stress on parents which lead to a higher level of depression which affects the whole family. Some young adult children are forced into the work force before they graduate to help the family. If these young adults are one of the fortunate ones that don’t need to join the workforce, they are still faced with taking on an adult role due to having to play mommy or daddy to their younger siblings. Having this kind of responsibility at such a young age causes some of these young adults to fall into a depression or stressed out with all the responsibility that they start rebelling authority or looking for
As disclosed in the article, The Impact of Technology on the Developing Child, Chris Rowan acknowledges, “Rather than hugging, playing, rough housing, and conversing with children, parents are increasingly resorting to providing their children with more TV, video games, and the latest iPads and cell phone devices, creating a deep and irreversible chasm between parent and child” (par. 7). In the parent’s perspective, technology has become a substitute for a babysitter and is becoming more convenient little by little. It is necessary for a growing child to have multiple hours of play and exposure to the outside world each day. However, the number of kids who would rather spend their days inside watching tv, playing video games, or texting is drastically increasing. Children are not necessarily the ones to be blamed for their lack of interest in the world around them, but their parents for allowing their sons and daughters to indulge in their relationship with technology so powerfully. Kids today consider technology a necessity to life, because their parents opted for an easier way to keep their children entertained. Thus resulting in the younger generations believing that technology is a stipulation rather than a
The significance of chores in the household is important in building the character of our youth. When children participate in the chores of the house they can learn more than how to wash a plate or how to separate the recycling; children can learn to be independent and responsible and develop a proper work ethic that can benefit them throughout their lives. Physical activity is another benefit that children can receive by participating in chores; physical activity can reduce the risk of mental and physical disease. Children who do not do chores may also be independent, responsible, be appreciative of hard work, and have a reduced risk of mental and physical illnesses, but children who do participate in chores are more likely to experience