It seemed his thirst for relief overpowered his reasoning. He held four arguments that supported Spyware being used. The first told that trusting your child can border on negligence when dealing with the internet (Coben). He implies that access to an adult’s private documents that are held on a computer might not be safe in the hands of the son or daughter. However, this problem can be solved by simply buying your child his own computer or adding additional users and password protection for the administrator.
In the article “Just whom is this Divorce good for? By Marquart she explains, “We found that children of so- called “good” divorces often do worse even than children of unhappy low- conflict marriages. They say more often, that family life was stressful and they had to grow up to soon. They are themselves more likely to divorce and children of divorce feel like divided selves”. I would have to agree with that because I am actually going through my parents getting a divorce and when I found out I didn’t want to believe it at all I didn’t want to see my parents split up it just wasn’t right to me.
In his essay “Handling Teen Calls”, Gary Lautens exposes the harsh realities associated with being a parent of a teenager in modern society through his recounts of fumbled attempts at taking phone messages for his son correctly. To be sure, cell phones have alleviated these phone message mishaps, but unfortunately, cell phones or not, parents are still often left overwhelmed and confused with the many unwritten rules and expectations of their teenaged children. Thus, throughout his essay, Lautens sarcastically illustrates the many challenges parents are faced with when trying to appease their teenagers’ unrealistic expectations using unity, consistent coherence, and a humorous style. One essential component of Lautens’ essay is unity, as he constantly introduces the topic and slips in catchy phrases to refer back to the heightened sense of failure associated with parenting teens. While grabbing the reader’s attention with the first sentence, he clearly establishes the topic when he begins with, “The other evening the telephone rang and a lovely female voice asked, ‘Is Stephen there?’” (301).
Since teenagers are immature to make their own decision, it is vital for adults to inculcate a correct attitude towards drinking. Nevertheless, it seems that nowadays many schools and parents only focus teenagers’ academic development. They neglect teaching youngsters with a sense of individual responsibility after drinking. Because of ignorance and lack of education from adults, teenagers have not take health issues into account after drinking harder alcohol. As a result, the problem of alcohol abuse and drinking deaths become graver among college students.
However, the documentary fails to acknowledge how the internet has helped kids by providing ways to find answers and acquire research and knowledge. Instead of exploring all the negatives found from the internet and kids growing up with the internet, the positives should also be discovered. The Frontline documentary also revealed that the internet has allowed kids to escape reality by having a “life” online. The internet helps kids express themselves through websites like MySpace, Facebook and blogs. The documentary goes on about how by letting the students have a life outside of reality can cause kids to have insecurity issues and have negative images for themselves.
Retrieved October 25, 2010, from http://www.ncsl.org This website shows how important it is for American high schools to prepare their students for college, in order for America to compete in this 21st century knowledge-based world. The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) provides a number of statistics pertaining to high school graduation and drop out rates. The NCSL also gives a few specific solutions designed to improve high schools throughout the country. Pulliam, J.D. and Van Patten, J.J. (2007).
Nowdays, people started to forget that the internet and new media technologies intersperse our notice but the book helps to keep our attention. So people need to read a books in order to improve their attention. In the article “ Does the Internet Make you Dumber or Smarter?, “ Nicholas Carr asks question that does the internet make people dumber or smarter?. I think a lot of people want to know the answers too. Carr thinks that the net makes people dumper because he proved the net makes people scattered and superficial thinkers.
After perusing Section 3, I was wary as a result of this conviction I held. Anyhow in the wake of perusing about the examination that shows how acknowledgement and positive thought toward oneself crest amid center adulthood altered my opinion. When I was perusing about how substance center grown-ups are, I thought 'this is excessively hopeful they are gathered, making it impossible to reflect on their lives and be baffled.' But like the reading material clarifies; its not experiencing midlife that causes emotions of "emergency," its the negative life occasions that trigger these sentiments. I was additionally astounded to discover that center grown-ups get to be "all the more mentally versatile" in light of the fact that I expected that this phase of improvement would be described by more imperatives, responsibilities, and obligations.
These days the kids get time outs and the parents try talking to them as if they were mini adults and can understand and grasp exactly the point you are trying to get across to them. They can't! They say they do to get you to shut up, but they didn't understand a word you just said. Obviously the time outs and talking do not work because our kids just keep doing the same thing they got in trouble for over and over again and we keep asking ourselves why? Does he have ADD or ADHD?
If we as people do not remember what it means to be friendly and learn to communicate again I am afraid what society might turn into. With technology the way it is today personal communication is coming so obsolete. Even the younger generation is doing more texting and communication on the internet than the way communication once was. I sometimes sit and think about the future of communication and it scares me how just talking to someone someday will become a thing of the past. Hopefully people in my generation can get their children to put down their devices and talk again.