Summary Of ' Tweens : Ten Going On Fourteen '

In the quest to look beautiful just like the heroines in the Disney princesses' franchise, many girls indulge themselves in the products that made for the grown-ups. Hanes proves this with a statistic from the marketing group, NPD Fashionworld, who reported that a total of 1.6 million dollars is spent annually on thong underwear for children between 7-12 years (510). These facts do not even begin to cover what is really happening to young girls nowadays. In addition, young girls are engaging themselves with the makeup at a young age that may be harmful to them because they are chemicals. Young children who feel that they are fat and want to become slender may even go to the extent of starving themselves to obtain the body shape and size that they want. There have even been cases where parents have allowed or encouraged their children to undergo the surgeries and other procedures to "enhance" their beauty. As a result, these girls end up getting the health problems and depression. Hanes supports this fact with the statistics from an APA research, which linked stress, depression, health problems, and eating disorders to sexualization

In the article “I Tweet, Therefore I Am,” author Peggy Orenstein criticizes the problems associated to the distractions of social media sites such as Twitter. The author introduces her article by describing her relaxing Sunday morning with her daughter. The author then quickly recounts her sense of urge to compress her beautiful day into a tweet, acknowledging that her “consciousness had spin off and was observing the scene from the outside… [her] perfect oppurtunity to tweet.” Living in a fast-paced world like today, many people can agree that what we decide to share is ultimately determined by our fantasies of what we think people should see, know and hear for the

The title “Tweens: Ten going on Sixteen” was a good choice for this writing. Kay Hymowitz discussed the problems of children growing up too fast. Hymowitz talked about how these children are maturing sooner and skipping through crucial parts of their development. This was her thesis and it fit really well with the title. Just by reading the title I had a good understanding of what the essay was going to be about. The word Tweens made me think of girls around the age of ten or twelve. When I read ten going on sixteen, I thought of the expression twelve going on twenty. This expression is usually used when children act or try to act much older than they are. So, just by reading the title I knew it was probably going to be about children trying to act older than they are. The author did a good job of giving me a glimpse of what the essay would be about.

In “I Tweet, Therefore I Am” author Peggy Orenstein writes about her addiction to Twitter. At the beginning of the text Orenstein describes a lazy afternoon with her daughter and what it consisted of but she felt this need to tweet about it. Orenstein goes into depth on how social media sites for example Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter is changing our identities and that they are shaping us. With these sites like Twitter you try to express who you are but because of the audience you try to make it more interesting than need be. That’s where your “psychology becomes a performance”(Orenstein 6). Orenstein's over all view of Twitter is that it’s fun but there should be lines between person and persona what is

In “Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen,” Kay S. Hymowitz points out that in modern society kids mature too early, creating a negative trend called “tween phenomenon”; it occurs when kids become teenagers at a young age and skip preadolescence. According to Hymowitz, the evidence presents a troubling picture of tweens who are too concerned with their looks, are involved in criminal activities, are having sex, are doing drugs, and are consuming alcohol. She provides evidence to exemplify tweendom’s negative influence on both the tweens and the world around them. The author concludes that media, absentee parents, and peers are among the several complex causes of the negative trends of tweens. Although Hymowitz may sound excessively cynical, she states a reasonable case that should be considered by parents, educators, and psychologists. Without a doubt, the three most negative behavioral trends of many tweens are their need for attention, their peer group pressure, and most importantly, their unawareness of the consequences for their irresponsible actions.

In this essay, Michelle Blake explains how pre-teens shouldn’t be allowed on social media. Blake explains how all aspects of social media play a role in teens personality and progressing lack of empathy for others. A natural desire to be popular causes them to constantly try to be funny, noticed, or clever. Once they set any social media platform, they’re now going to be on it a lot more. In hence trying to get the attention they crave. This can lead to the inability to focus on anything but them. Creating lack of general consideration of others and constant focus on ones feelings. The author describes they are not mature enough to make responsible decision. That most teens are living in the moment rather

Imagine you were ten years old. What were you doing? Were you in a park? Were you playing with toys? Now look around at ten-year old’s today. There seems to be a noticeable shift. Most of them have some sort of electronic device of their own, whether it be a smartphone or a tablet. That shift becomes even more apparent if you were ten years old, 30 years ago versus if you were ten years old only eight years ago. In the essay “Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen,” Kay S. Hymowitz suggests that tweens are growing up too fast. She states that while there are complex causes for this, “two major and fairly predictable themes emerged: a sexualized and glitzy media-driven marketplace and absentee parents” (Page 203). This and, “peer group form a vicious circle that works to distort the development of youngsters…,” according to Hymowitz (Page 203).

Peggy Orenstein in the article “I Tweet, Therefore I Am” (2010), featured in the New York Times asserts that people should not tweet for their followers but tweet for themselves; that we should not analyze our everyday actions due to how we would want our lives to be perceived by others. Peggy Orenstein supports her argument with rhetorical questions, statistics, and personal experiences. Her purpose was to ultimately convince the readers to think less about what your social media followers want to hear, and more about what you want to say. Orenstein writes in an empathetic tone most likely intended for people like herself, people who are realizing how social can make differentiating your person and persona difficult; however, it also reaches

This is a lot like “Tweens: Ten Going On Sixteen,” because many of the children who were married as children had to grow up way to fast. This is what is happening nowadays to the tween generation except they aren’t even allowed to be married, but are still trying to act as adults.

Like teen pregnancy " ... when more than 97 out of 1000 women aged fifteen to nineteen gave birth ...[those} who gives birth are more likely to have children with a variety of physical, emotional, or cognitive deficits, while those who have abortions are more apt to have a traumatic experience with the abortion (268). Coontz never really speaks about the opposing side of her argument majority of her book is to pursue her readers to believe that there's not such thing as a perfect family today. In each chapter in her book including her introduction, he has out spotlight on specific issues. For instance, " what is a normal family and childhood" in this section she analyzes how different cultures displays as"normal." What children suppose to do, how" [In ] modern Americans tend to think that a girl needs an especially close relationship with her mother and a boy to his father, other societies create well-adjected children in different ways (279-288)." Ms. Coontz only accounts for one-side of the argument which could hurt her argument. With 101 pages of notes, there are a prodigious amount of evidence that Stephanie Coontz developed from. Evidence from her previous book and movies helps her develop a strong writing about socialiogey. Every chapter has an attention getter; each chapter starts off with an emotional story, followed by many pages of why the story

This chapter gives a description of the Under Thirteens’ game against Blue Springs. As The Game against Blue springs began the Under Thirteens weren’t fully awake which cause Blue Springs to score with an easy shot and making the score 1-0. With the team trailing 1-0 at halftime Luma decided to change Jeremiah from defense to midfield, and as the second half was about to begin Luma put Qendrim back into the game after incurring an injury in the first half by one of the Blue Springs player. The second half has begun and within a two minutes Josiah a player on the under thirteens scored a shot and tied 1-1, however it did not last long because within a few minutes the Blue Springs team scored a goal and lead 2-1. Though the Under Thirteens

As J. Jack Halberstam avers in Gaga Feminism, “Children are different from adults in all kinds of meaningful ways. They inhibit different understandings of time, and experience the passing of time differently” (Halberstam xxiii). Halberstam renders that children absorb information in a different

I didn’t really like the book cause... They are grade fivers who have parties like when I was in grade five I would stay in side and have sleepovers with friends but no these kids have big parties when their parents aren’t home, when I was I was in grade five I didn’t even know how to make toast, Toast but these kid make big parties like there in grade nine or ten. But they still cry and call their parents daddy and mommy now yes I do know that some people do call their parents by daddy and mommy but when you get older you just don’t any more so if you can have big parties you can stop calling your parent’s mommy and daddy like really.

puberty bring with it a complex tradition of restrictions and behavioral guidelines. Kincaid’s poem reveals the rigidity and complexity of the social confines the girl is expected to operate underl. A girl is an induction into the women community as well as an orientation into the act of womanhood (Walkerdine et. al.). The lectured instructions given to the silent girl child vary from the housekeeping, “this is how you sweep a whole house”, to dealing with intimate relationships, “this is how a man bullies you; …how to bully a man” to medicine, “this is how to make good medicine (to abort)” (Kincaid).The inane patriarchal society expects gender stereotypes to prevail. The mother is tasked to give her daughter instructions on how to be a good woman in the stereotyped society. The advice the mother gives to the daughter cements the gender stereotype and portrays limitations on a woman (Bailey and Carol 107).

Lastly, Other elements that have molded Tamara’s identity includes technology. Technology in today’s society, is something that is helping/harming adolescence develop their self-identity. Tamara expressed that she uses her smart phone on a daily basis to communicate with others. “Online Disinhibition Effect” which is described as an emotional message, can easily be exaggerated thorough text messages and creates an escalated feeling (Cyr, Berman, Smith, 2015). The adolescence I interview can highly related to this. During the interview, Tamara shared she argues with her boyfriend at least once a month. She explained that she expresses herself better through text message with him, because the emoji are able to exemplify her feelings. She explained