Say Goodbye to the Good Old Beaver Days
Contemporary American families are too caught up in raising what they think to be the "perfect child." It is common for a parent to want his/her child to be the best at what ever they do, but parents sometimes take it too far. Parents of the 90's seem to put too much pressure on their kids, which does not allow them to enjoy their childhood the way they should. This kind of behavior forces kids to grow up too fast with out truly enjoying their childhood.Many kids have a normal and healthy childhood; but now a days it seems that the traditional childhood you would see on "Leave It to Beaver" is non existent. It is true that times have changed from those days, but it has not been for the better. Kids can only be kids once in their lives, and to force them into adult hood at a young age really is not fair. Many parents figure that if they treat their kids like adults at a younger age, it will make the task of raising the child a whole lot easier. In reality this conception is far from the truth; in fact it tends to give kids emotional problems. In Elkind's "Childhood's End," he gives the example of Willia
Many children go through treatment similar to Sidis. Parents in the U.S. send their kids to school at a younger age, then most any other country in the world. In Europe and Asia, children start there schooling at the age of seven. This is two whole years after the U.S. requires children to start school, and yet Asian and European education is so much more advanced then ours here in the States. It is probably because children are emotionally and mentally ready to start learning at a later age. At the age of five, kids should be out playing and having fun. If starting to teach children at a younger age is beneficial, then why do children over seas who start school later have a more advanced level of writing and math skills? It is most likely because the pressure placed on children at the younger age is paralyzing their ability to learn as efficiently. m James Sidis, who was a child prodigy who entered Harvard College at the age of eleven. Young Sidis was very intelligent, but emotionally he was not ready to move into adulthood at such a young age. A few years later, James Thurber wrote a profile of Sidi
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