Many people have argued that kids today are “too adult-like”. In this generation, kids are becoming adultlike and not enjoying their childhood. In American society, kids are no longer allowed to just be kids. Kids do not have to deal with adult responsibilities, however; kids have unlimited access to the internet, an overwhelming amount of stress, and a lack of parental supervision. Therefore, kids grow up quicker than kids in other generations. A reason why kids are now growing up faster is because they have infinite access to the internet, making everything they should learn about when they’re older available in the palm of their hands. According to Sylvia Rimm in Growing Up Too Fast: The Secret World of America’s Middle Schoolers, “We knew …show more content…
This can cause stress because kids feel forced to feel like they have to have their entire lives planned out when they barely know what they want. Another reason why kids are stressed is because American schools lead to the loss of childhood.“ Thus, the hypothesized decline in the nature and amount of unstructured play in the lives of children provides further evidence for the disappearance of Hood” (The Hurried Child 475). While at school, kids do not get to go outside and play; rather, they are confined to the walls of the school. This can be rather depressing, as they are stuck in the same mundane building for eight hours a day. Adding to this, many of the games played at school have become very strict and mock professional, in which they imitate factors of the professional real world. With this, the majority of American schools lead to children losing their curiosity and creativity, as well as their innocent charm. With this in mind, it can be said that pressure from adults, rapid social changes, and an uninteresting school system have had a negative impact on kids and the enjoyment of their childhood, leading to them becoming more
Too much of a snare? With the announcement of the new iPhone 7, and the continued release of new features and accessories, technological involvement in everyday lives is only increasing, and parents are still stuck in the past with technological restrictions. In the news articles Blame Society, Not the Screen Time by Danah Boyd and Don’t Limit Your Teen’s Screen Time by Chris Bergman, both authors express their thoughts on this generation’s teenager’s use of technology and why guardians should allow their kids to utilize the internet. The authors use rhetorical appeals to persuade and convince their audiences that technology and the internet is a safe place for teenagers to find their interests and be themselves. While Bergman does a better job appealing logically to the audience through pointing out parents’ hypocrisy, Boyd effectively balances ethos and pathos by gaining credibility as a researcher on the topic of screen time and excelling in connecting with her audience emotionally with her experiences as a teenager in the past.
Though being exposed to technologies like computers from an early age may have given us the ability to do things more efficiently, technology has also made us less dependent on ourselves. Claudia Wallis, editor for Time, in her article makes known in The Multitasking Generation, “That level of multiprocessing and interpersonal connectivity is now so commonplace that it’s easy to forget how quickly it came about. Fifteen years ago, most home computers weren’t even linked to the Internet” (63). There are many things that students are able to do on their computer that their parents aren't even aware of or that the parents couldn’t do themselves. My parents always tell of how looking through the library’s card catalog and searching for the books they needed only to find out that they have been taken out. Computers have allowed us to do many things faster for example, write much faster than a typewriter or pen and paper and correct typing errors without starting over. The computers and technology we now have makes it easier to almost anything and with technology so easily at your fingertips it o...
Brent Staples article “What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace” published in the New York Times, highlights how technology plays a heavy role in adolescent social development. For example, children growing up in the 21st century are bombarded with vast technological media outlets. Also, Staples supports with factual research indicating communicating through technology hinders children social skills. Staples explains how social media and networking has become a virtual reality, encouraging children not to value real-world experiences. Staples argues that adolescents cannot transition into the harsh realities of adulthood because they prefer socializing through virtual realities. Although there are parents who monitor adolescents’
In conclusion, the evidence says that kids, teenagers, and young adults are not the dumbest. Through new forms of technology and increased online activity, young people have gained various forms of technical and media literacy (Source 3) and gained real-world skills. The Digital Youth Project conducted a study of the effects of digital media on young people, and the results showed that friendship and interest-driven online activities help kids learn expression, social etiquette, and respect (Source
In this intriguing article, "The Digital Parent Trap" by the respected Eliana Dockterman, the author convincingly argues that this generation of American kids is the tech-savviest in history and this trend is going to bring about a severe change in the society. The author effectively and steadfastly builds the argument by using a variety of persuasive and argumentative rhetorical techniques including but not limited to specific and convincing evidence, logical reasons, and appeals to emotion through a careful choice of words.
In a technological driven world technology is becoming something that kids, at younger and younger ages, are turning to. In some people 's eyes they are becoming addicted to technology and in others views technology is not a problem with our youth. Parents and most adults are all worried about this, so to try and give some insight to these worried parents and adults Chris Bergman and Dannah Boyd wrote articles that discuss the use of technology by the youth of today. Boyd uses different rhetorical strategies to try and get her point across in her article, that different societal factors is actually what the problem with teens and not technology, “Blame Society, Not The Screen Time.” However, Chris Bergman’s “Don’t Limit Your Teen’s Screen Time”
Amy Goldwasser wrote an article called “What’s the matter with Kids today?” in which she addresses the belief that technology is destroying kids and creating a generation of ignorance. She explains how there really is nothing wrong with kids in today’s generation besides the fact many adults fear the unknown and they lack the acceptance of new technology.
middle of paper ... ... However, it is important to approach these panics with a degree of skepticism because we must not forget that the young generation do have a mind of their own. If adults feel the pressure to monitor and restrict children from learning using new media, it could affect the way they learn and prove problematic. Works Cited Drotner, K. (1999).
The 21st century teens take all of the resources available at our fingertips for granted. We get upset when an app or a song takes too long to load because that is all we have ever known. A comedian, Louis C. K., uses an example of airplanes to further explain how much we take for granted. We complain about the plane not boarding, in what we think, is a timely fashion and having to sit on board waiting for takeoff when we should be thankful that we are sitting in a chair, with WiFi, in the sky, above the clouds. This was just a dream for some children many years ago and now technology has made those ‘dreams’ come to life. Unfortunately, we have now gotten so used to anything we want being at our fingertips, we forgot how to live without a smart
Seeing my now 4 and 2 year old half-brothers grow up in an increasingly technological world has made me realize imminent, and sometimes surprising changes since when I was a child. The most obvious being their ability to use technology. When the oldest of my half-brothers, Jameson, was two years and younger, he readily enjoyed watching children’s shows on television. However, after he discovered the iPad, his attention no longer was taken by the big screen, but by the small screen in his hands. Whenever he isn’t at school, Jameson uses our Dad’s iPhone to watch videos on YouTube every minute he is at home. The moment he gets up, when he’s getting ready for school, as we are eating dinner, even right before our dad tells him it’s time to go to bed, this kid always is looking at or listening to the cloudy pictures streaming upon a finger-smudged touchscreen. Its as if he tooks the “eye”-sound in iPhone too seriously--for one eye is always glued to the device. When children are able to interact with the internet, not only does their attention uncontrollably gravitate towards a screen, but their “taste” in entertainment--especially videos--develops as well. At first, a child may begin watching her or his favorite television
Simon Sinek (2016), a popular speaker, presented a speech on the topic of millennials and their addiction of the internet. In his speech, Sinek argues that millennials are addicted to the internet and tough to manage, and he gives the four main reasons why all millennials are like that- The reasons he states are parents, technology, impatience, and environment. He believes that most millennials are the outcome of “failed parenting strategies”- parents tell their kids they are special, can have anything they want in life without working for it, and build up their self-esteem at a young age which makes them narcissistic. When these kids grow up and face the real world, they find out that everything their parents told them was a lie which makes
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
Growing up there was several challenges. My biggest challenge would have to be trying to find honest and true friends. People change from time to time but, a real friend will always stick with you. I was caught into a web and did not know how to get out of it because the people I thought were my friends, always brought me down and they found it funny to tamper with my emotions. It was very hard to find a genuine friend that I could rely on and stick with me when I needed it the most. Throughout, the years I switched through multiple friend groups because I realized some were only friends for the wrong reason. Those reasons usually meant that they just wanted to take advantage of me. As I got older and older I realized that I did not actually
Electronics have taken a huge toll on childhood.Childhood in the past never included Facebook, Snapchat, or Twitter, that now exposes kids to things they should not know until later in life. Most fear that young kids are learning and getting exposed to certain things way too fast.For example,Victoria Cobb writes, ”The innocents of childhood is being threatened by
Children of all ages everywhere these days seem to only depend on the internet. The internet is an amazing creation, but people take advantage of it. Since there is internet there is access to all kinds of social media, games, and all sorts of other things. However, because of today’s society internet is one of the only things kids use and go on, whether it’s go on Facebook for hours or watch ridiculous videos on YouTube, the internet is taking a negative turn towards children, their brains, smartness, and attitude. Despite helpful or early learning programs, the internet does not make children smarter.