Are Adults Hurt Young Children Katherine Shulten Analysis

Parents to this day are spending about $200 to $300 a month, at the youngest age of two years old, in tutoring the basics of school. Whether parents should be doing this or not has been getting very controversial in the past few years. All parents of course want the best for their kids, but tutoring them this early in their lifetime is hurting them more than ever. In the article, “Are Adults Hurting Young Children by Pushing Them to Achieve?”, written by Katherine Schulten, let’s you see how this is affecting one's childhood. Parents pushing their children to achieve has gotten worse and worse over the years. What parents are doing to their children is very pointless, there is little benefit in doing this, parents are the only ones gaining from this and there’s always going to be another program. There has been research over this and it has been proven that tutoring your children this early in their years, has little benefit. Many people think that just because they are being tutored means they are getting ahead of the game, but in reality they aren’t. It has been proven that young children learn just as much about math, if not even more, fitting mixing bowls together on the kitchen floor. This shows, that kids can learn just as much by messing around with little things, than …show more content…
Many would think they are, but parents are the ones who feel like they are getting their child prepared and ahead when they attend school. It states, “ Gina Goldman started bringing her 3-year-old daughter, a year ago, to these tutoring sessions and has since become the kind of believer who is fueling a rapid expansion of these type of programs.” It also states that the tutoring sessions she is in are very intense and Eze is not a problem child nor prodigy. Eze’s mom is the only one benefiting from this, she might think her child is, but she is forcing her to learn when she doesn’t really need to yet at this point in her