“A Hurried Life”
Anna Quindlen’s “Doing Nothing is Something” argues that children of today are overstretched and exhausted as compared to the past and should be given additional leisure time. She contends that down-time is a way for a child’s creative spirit to be let loose. She cites that there is ample psychological research, although she cites one from the University of Michigan. From the research she gathers that in the last 20 years American kids have lost about four hours of unstructured time a week. Doing nothing is when human beings in fact do their best thinking and when creativity comes to call, and those children are not able to imagine outside the box (Quindlen 82). I surmise that children will always find creative ways to occupy themselves, regardless of the situation. The creative process will always percolate to the surface with …show more content…
Quindlen argues that in America today being too busy is a terrible thing; however, being busy helps a person understand and utilize time management. Suniya Luthar says “Busy can be good.” A professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, Luthar co-authored a study in 2006 that challenged the wildly popular notion that kids were anxiety ridden and doomed to drug abuse and unhappiness because they were over-scheduled, and over-stressed, and over-busy. However, a parent’s job is to balance a child’s activities. If being overstretched and mentally exhausted is a deficit to a child’s performance at school and home, a quantity of activities should be curtailed. Parents need to spend time with their children instead of pushing them off to so call “activities.” “Sometimes we equate the number of activities with good parenting,” says Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, a University of New Hampshire psychologist from “Finding Balance in your Childs Life” (qtd.in). Is it truly? I think
Anna Quindlen’s “Doing Nothing is Something” argues that children of today are overstretched and exhausted as compared to the past and should be given additional leisure time. She contends that down-time is a way for a child’s creative spirit to be let loose. She cites that there is ample psychological research, although she cites one from the University of Michigan. From the research she gathers that in the last 20 years American kids have lost about four hours of unstructured time a week. Doing nothing is when human beings in fact do their best thinking and when creativity comes to call, and those children are not able to imagine outside the box (Quindlen 82). I surmise that children will always find creative ways to occupy themselves, regardless of the situation. The creative process will always percolate to the surface with …show more content…
Quindlen argues that in America today being too busy is a terrible thing; however, being busy helps a person understand and utilize time management. Suniya Luthar says “Busy can be good.” A professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, Luthar co-authored a study in 2006 that challenged the wildly popular notion that kids were anxiety ridden and doomed to drug abuse and unhappiness because they were over-scheduled, and over-stressed, and over-busy. However, a parent’s job is to balance a child’s activities. If being overstretched and mentally exhausted is a deficit to a child’s performance at school and home, a quantity of activities should be curtailed. Parents need to spend time with their children instead of pushing them off to so call “activities.” “Sometimes we equate the number of activities with good parenting,” says Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, a University of New Hampshire psychologist from “Finding Balance in your Childs Life” (qtd.in). Is it truly? I think