Eve Tushnet's You Can Go Home Again

Now the concern isn’t how to rouse teens but how to lull them. And that says everything about the way childhood has been transformed — at least among an ambitious, privileged subset of Americans — into an insanely programmed, status-obsessed and sometimes spirit-sapping race.

Grown-ups always say “teen years are your best years.” Yet the mentality these days is to grow up too fast. Most kids going on to teens can’t wait to have a car, and can’t wait to go out every weekend with that girl they like. These kids go on to having jobs and little do they know that they are going to start missing out on all the fun things their friends are doing like going to that movie everyone has been waiting for at midnight. This is where students start to get tired and say “well I already have a job, I don’t need to go to school.” And that’s when they drop

Today’s youth feel the need to be perfect. Having any flaws has been beaten into kids as an awful quality. Scared of ridicule from their peers and parents, today’s youth work hard to maintain an impossible image. Students lose sleep, a basic human need, to complete their ever-growing amount of homework. They miss out on social interaction, a key component to any healthy human’s life, just to complete homework, work a part-time job, play sports, commit to after-school activities, and household responsibilities. Young people tend to feel overwhelmed and are unable to properly control and release their emotions. Older generations think these outbursts are because today’s youth are entitled. On the contrary, today’s youth are competing on a personal, physical and even emotional level with every other person their age and older to be the best to have the best opportunity to live a good life.

Moreover, while in American society it is not very clear when adolescence ends and adulthood begins, Chua make that distinction very clearly. For example, she explained to her children that parents are responsible for their children’s success “until the child is eighteen” to develop work ethics and value of excellence. After the child turns eighteen, they are free to find their own path (Chua, 2011). Because by then they will be wise enough to make choices, and right

On June 15, 2015, Mark Gregston wrote an article entitled “Pushing Back Against a Teen Culture of Entitlement.” Gregston’s article emphasizes on reasons why teens are entitled and talks about how it can be stopped. Gregston lives in Longview, Texas and is founder and director of Heartlight, “a residential counseling center for struggling teens” (Gregston 1). Gregston is also an author, speaker, and radio host; making his background of communication acceptable. Gregston gives advice to teens showing how they can give back to their community or anyone that supports them. Gregston also states the parents should not do everything for their children, make them be responsible for themselves.

The adolescents of America do not realize how lucky they are to grow up in such a stable society. The opportunities available to American teenagers differ significantly compared to those of teens from many other countries in the world. Poor income countries do not have the resources to exceed the amount of opportunity, like America does. Although there are some areas in America that still do not meet the high standards set by our country, compared to most other countries, American teens are raised in economically stable families, have access to a high level of education, and live in a country that provides them freedom and possibilities for their future.

As teens or young adults you are still trying to figure out who you are and what you have to offer the world. There is so much pressure around teen’s every day of their lives. They do not know what is the right or the wrong choice, but certain influences and relationships help determine the choices they make. They need guidance and someone they can talk to, like a non-parental adult. This is an adult who wants to make a difference in the life of teens, and is someone they can rely on for support. Non-parental adults can come from many different socially-defined contexts: Teachers, coaches, or extended family. These adults play a tremendous role in teens lives’, which is exemplified well in Bill, a male

Working with teenagers every day at school reminds me of the quest for freedom that is so urgent at this time of their lives. How many times have I heard, “But, Mrs. Smith, I’m 18 years old. Why can’t I leave school? Why can’t I come in late? Why can’t I go home for lunch? Why can’t I do what I want? At 18 years old I’m supposed to be free to do exactly what I want to do.”

Single parent homes is something that we see more common in our generation than it has been in past generations. I have raised in a single parent home and now I am raising my child in a single parent home. I never really thought about all the stigma associated with being involved in this type of family types. According to Birkenmaier, Berg-Weger, and Dewees, society and some social service providers have viewed single parenthood as a blight that leads to insecure, delinquent, and otherwise unhappy and dysfunctional households. (20114.pg. 252) while there can be some downfalls for living in this family type, it is not always the worse possible outcome. I feel that seeing the struggle that my mother faced to get us up and dressed for school,

Adolescents, who are neither children nor adults, stand with a foot in each world (childhood and adulthood). Their intellectual and emotional development is greater than that of young children, yet they are not fully mature. By age 14, their basic cognitive skills are substantially similar to what they will be in adulthood, although they lack the experience of adults. They are likely to have a well-developed set of preferences and a set of moral values.

Teenagers in the United States are negatively affected by the economy and the resulting actions that adults make. The current economy is troubling, which is making it difficult for most people to be able afford goods. It also causes some of the adults that will directly influence teenagers to make dire choices. The teenagers can either follow the lifestyles of these adults or they can try to take another path. However, it has become increasingly difficult to take the latter choice.

Surveys that have been conducted in the current times have revealed that there are many adults that are returning to their parents at home. It’s not the first time that this pattern is being experienced it have happened in the past and it have always been accompanied with financial problems, it’s no different even now (Adler, 2001). It occurs when the economy is in real struggle this makes it harder for the young men and women in the society to find their financial independence. Jeffrey Arnett a psychologist came up with a suggestion that in these modern times the stages of development are increasing (Mitchell, B 2006). He said that there is a new type of the classification of the ages known as the emerging adults; this is what bridges the gap between the adulthood and the adolescents. As per the theory it is believed that people while at their 20s undergo a stage of development which is different from the stage of adulthood (Morton, R 2013). This could serve as a good explanation why most of the young adults remain in their parents’ home completely.

Within the various countries that Katherine Newman studied in her book “The Accordion Family”, she found that all of the countries (United States, Japan, Spain, Italy, and some Nordic countries) had very similar global forces behind the increasing number of young adults living at home at older ages (Newman, 2012, 40). The studies have shown that for all of these young people, their parents were the ultimate “safety net” that they could fall back on if they needed help (Newman, 2012, 43). However, there were considerable differences in the cultural factors of the countries that determined how these populations reacted to the changes.

Growing up is a hard process, especially for those who are experiencing their adolescent years. Everyone who has gone through this process agrees that these years have been some of the most awkward and strangest years of their lives; the ‘teen years’ is a period of time in which the majority of people tend to have rebellious and irresponsible behavior, where it’s easy to feel isolated and where everything bad that happens is the “end of the world”. Teenagers seem to hate everything around them; they seem to always “know what’s best” and to think of adults as fake and annoying due to their beliefs and their way of speaking. On the other hand, many adults do not know how to communicate to teenagers because they have

As per Wright and Wright (1994) the family is the establishment of human culture. Youngsters who are rejected by their guardians, who experience childhood in homes with impressive clash, or who are insufficiently administered are at the most serious danger of getting to be reprobate. Immarigeon (1996) says all that needs to be said when he expresses that equity can be better