When Adolescents Are Doing With Their Time, By Reed Larson

The main point of this paper was to analyze and convey what adolescents are doing with their time and what it means for how and in what way they are developing in that time. Reed Larson, the author of the paper brings up how over the years young people have started to do less and less labor work at a young age, slowly receding to more of an emphasis on school work and supplemental discretionary time. Time doing chores have lowered as more kids start becoming more distracted in other time takers such a television and the new monster of their time the internet. Adolescents going up today have a new sense of interconnectedness and have much more opportunities to spend their time wisely or not so wisely. The schoolwork that has over taken labor …show more content…
Perhaps that as a recent Adolescent compared to the author I can empathize more with the hypothetical youth that he is discussing. This article hasn’t really changed my views as how I previously mentioned they weren’t much different from my pre-conceived thoughts on the subjects. However, the effect of development either helpful or destructive was kind of an eye opener for me personally as I did not now about the kids in Asia doing so much better than us but have comparatively very similar development in …show more content…
I had peers that helped me grow in the person that I am today and many choices that I have made in my life for better or for worse have been because of how somebody affected me. This helps me realize that I am not alone in being bored with my school work sometimes and that at all times I should feel that somewhere a student I know has it worse, so respectively this article for me was mostly a gateway in a realm of empathy that I have even considered before. As a teacher obviously you want your students to be doing their homework, there will be inevitably some outliers of the person that never wants to do and never does or the one that does it immediately as it is assigned. Both opposite end of the spectrum of students is something most high school teacher are well familiar with as most of them rely on homework due to short class times as opposed to college level courses. This article has helped me try on cater individually to each student as best as one can to development those into better students perhaps even by the end of the year of my class. I would tell my future self to not try and give homework for just the sake of homework, like busy work. I had to do that sometimes and it just gets frustrating and then use homework and class time to develop each individual into to someone that they weren’t when they started the