Our Push For Passion And Why It Harms Kids Summary

Finding Their Passion... Truly?

How do the kids figure out what their passions are? Usually, parent’s decision play the major role of it. Back to the time of childhood, our parents always asking their children that “what are you interesting in?” Almost all the parents have excessive interference in children's passion since hey do not want their children to lose at the starting line. In today’s society, passion is not a kind of "love", or children‘s interests. It just a way of a shortcut to people successful future. Most people think that passion is certain need that kids should have. In the article “Our Push for ‘Passion,’ and Why It Harms Kids” Lisa Heffernan points out that parents are pushing their children to have a passion, however

it is hard for a little kids to decide their interest. Passion is not the most significant thing to attend a college or have a better life.
In this article “Our Push for ‘Passion,’ and Why It Harms Kids,” Heffernan writes the introduction with an anecdote.

It clears and concise the beginning, and it tells readers the theme and central idea. Anecdote tells author herself met a boy in her son’s soccer game. His younger brother was playing soccer game with author’s son, and the boy tells her that he didn’t has a passion, “but my parents are helping me look for one.” The boy means that his parent will find a passion for him. However, only the children can choose their own passion and their parent can’t find it for their children. It is an irony. Heffernan uses this anecdote to get reader’s attention and makes reader want to continuous reading. Also, it makes reader to think about passion that reader had and their own experiences about passion. It is an common tragic situation that everyone are force to face in today’s society. As a student myself, I have heard that "passion" can prove to people that you have determination, skills, and passion. Our passion for a thing will let us to the better future and chose our major in college. Also, to my parent that my brother and me must have one passion to focus

on.
Exactly as Heffernan ironically declares parent’s thought about their kid’s passion.

In the following paragraphs, she continues by acknowledge parent think that when their children have a passion will let the kid “well documented and makes him stand out from the crowd.” All parent want their children a passion, and actually it seem parents put a “passion” to their children. She also uses similes, for example “It's as if passion is life's magic pixie dust. “ That statement is really truth. Many parents and students have faith in that by sprinkling that dust on top of their application essays, they will magically get in. However, in reality, many of those passions that they “love” to do is superficial and just as she writes, is "pseudo passions that eat up our days and lay waste." The one passion children have is not really determines their

future.
She elaborates further, in the last couple of years, the idea of “passion” has turn into an overwhelming topic in raising and particularly in the race towards school acknowledgment. Heffernan explains this situation in the middle of the article. College encourages every student have passion, and students and their parent hear “passion” dozens of times during college visiting. Advocates of the have a passion feel that once the kid finds what he was "intended to do," where his ability lies, and what he adores best, he'll be in route to an effective life...to say nothing of a full grant to his college of decision. Author logically implies college exaggerates the importance of passion. She gives an example “When The Washington Post disabused parents of the top 10 college admissions myths, No. 1 was that colleges want well-rounded students. Instead, it explained, ‘The word they most often use is passion.’ When U.S. News & World Report offered suggestions on how to create a ‘killer college application,’ it too listed passion in the top spot.” It shows passion is not really way to get in to a competitive college. The definition of it is only a blur. Nonetheless, until now people think passion has turned into the best variable that can bring people into a superior life, which is a myth. Therefore, parent should not rightfully think passion is the most important thing and everyone should have one in their life. Heffernan asserts this fat to demonstrate what most people believe is not true. Most parents and children in today society find “passion” is essentially to stand amongst many other student and they will head off to college, rather than enjoy specific activates.
As the article advances, Heffernan reports not everybody have a passion as a kid and parents can’t let children only focus on a passion. It can’t be deny. .Not everybody can discover a passion. Heffernan adds “if passion were just a matter of semantics, a word heedlessly thrown around in place of interest or pastime, this might not be a problem. But seeking a passion in childhood or adolescence has become an obsession in itself, and it is not without costs.” Author candid reminds us parents are pushers to hurt their kid by finding children’s passion. Now parent see a passion in different way as before. Passion is not really want the kid want to do and it make people feel sad. To finding their passion is actually limiting children. As Heffernan claims in article, “For most children, childhood isn’t about passion, but rather about exploration. Our job as parents is to nurture that exploration, not put an end to it.” Children need to encounter a mess of life before they ought to be relied upon to discover and settle down into one "shoe that fits." the reality of the matter is that a few individuals really do have a calling, possibly at an extremely youthful age, one on which they construct a career. However, the greater part of us don't.
Although, Heffernan have a forceful explain about parent ‘s push of their kid’s passion but when she insists parent will buy the tools even thought the kid shows a little interest on something. She report “I think it’s proof that we ran to the music, art, book, or sporting goods stores at every opportunity, lest a passing interest fail to bloom into a passion because it lacked parental money or dedication.” It is not a wise way to say that parent done that is bad for kid. Parent are just want to support their children to learn. Parents are willing to spend money in their children’s passion is very help to children. That is a normal way how parent show care and love to their children. It is important to cultivate an interest, as long as the children get recognition, they will think that they are well done do in the case of conscious. Also, it is not only parents’ fault, the society make people think passion is significant to a better fault. Parent will have pressure because they want their children have a bright future. They are just worried and frightened, so author can’t look one side to criticisms parents. It is unkind to parents.
Besides it, Heffernan’s article is instructive. It is a successful article makes people think about what is really good for children. Why can't people just let kids be kids? Childhood is the only time in life when people can try different things and enjoy themselves with no external pressure to succeed or profit from it. Life is not a game of Monopoly. The person who dies with the most money doesn't win. In order to achieve true happiness each individual must find his own destiny unfettered by ridiculous educational trends. Heffernan claims her idea clearly and strongly. Just as she write, kids ought to have choices and discover an energy that they could complete for the duration of their lives, and in this way offer light to their lives.