Review Of The Film 'Living On One Dollar'

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Spoiled Rotten: Parents give, Children take, Everyone loses Watching a Netflix documentary “Living on One Dollar” last winter with my family made us reevaluate how we were living our lives. My husband and I grew up in single parent homes and my husband, born and raised in Mexico, especially knew what it was like to live life below the line of poverty. My 7 year-old son on the other hand had a different point of view. Being into Bear Grylls from “Man vs. Wild,” my son saw the people living in Guatemala as “survivors” on a show instead of reality, making us laugh yet, cringe on the glimpse of how this next generation thinks. Our country was once full of people who believed in bettering themselves, hard work, self-reliance, and personal responsibility has been replaced by a generation of people focused on “me”. They want all of the success, all of the fame, and all of the recognition without any of the hard work or the willingness to put in the time. That is why as our children go off to colleges -they cannot afford- and graduate with a degree in every field many are finding life too difficult on their own and many go back home, 3.3 million 20- to 34-year-olds to be exact. So how are we as parent to raise “self-reliant, self-assured, successful children” in 2015 (Gross-Loh). Although parents want the absolute best for …show more content…
As parents, we are responsible to keep our children from becoming spoiled rotten, but many let their hard upbringings and cultural trends to influence on

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