Life as we know it has its up’s and down’s. Decisions are not like dreams for most of us, we don’t wake up one morning and find that have come to us in the night. And this is the same with parents, and their kids on their choices and what they achieve in life. Most parents automatically think that their kids should participate in an after school specials because they think it’s good for them and might help in their future careers. But the question is are they asking them before they enroll them in theses activity’s or just assume they will participate no matter if they like or not. Kids these days don’t know if they should participate in after school specials or just leave it up for their parents to deice for them. So some parents take advantage
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When it comes to their kid’s extracurricular activities parents usually sympathy’s and try not pressure them to make decision on the spot weather if they want to participate on them or not. So when parents ask their kids if they want to participate in any activity most of the time their kids will say no. Then when some parent’s wants to know why they don’t want to participate kids try to explain that either they don’t like a certain activity or maybe they are not good it, and sometimes they may have been getting bullied so their parents sympathy’s with them and say maybe it’s a waste time and their just fine without having to participate in a after school special. On the other side parents think that forcing kids into these activities might lead to kids hating after school specials like sports, music, and even theater. With that they like them to make their own decisions of what they want to participate in, so that they can be comfortable with what they are doing and not having to worry if the like it or not. According to the debate on the New York Times on Forcing Kids to Commit to Their Extracurricular KJ Dell ‘Antonia stated that “Outside of academics, I can 't see any reason to push my kids into anything they don 't want to do for themselves”. She also said that “it’s easy to let your kids quit activities when you 're neither emotionally nor financially invested”. She also gave an example by saying “If they don 't want to play organized soccer or learn an instrument or even go to camp at all, I 'm fine with that”. Basically wats she means is that some parents have to think about the cost and how they are doing emotionally are the kids happy of what they are doing or they just doing it just to pass up time and because someone told them to participate. And that parents should not push their kids into something they don’t want to be part of, instead they can make
When it comes to their kid’s extracurricular activities parents usually sympathy’s and try not pressure them to make decision on the spot weather if they want to participate on them or not. So when parents ask their kids if they want to participate in any activity most of the time their kids will say no. Then when some parent’s wants to know why they don’t want to participate kids try to explain that either they don’t like a certain activity or maybe they are not good it, and sometimes they may have been getting bullied so their parents sympathy’s with them and say maybe it’s a waste time and their just fine without having to participate in a after school special. On the other side parents think that forcing kids into these activities might lead to kids hating after school specials like sports, music, and even theater. With that they like them to make their own decisions of what they want to participate in, so that they can be comfortable with what they are doing and not having to worry if the like it or not. According to the debate on the New York Times on Forcing Kids to Commit to Their Extracurricular KJ Dell ‘Antonia stated that “Outside of academics, I can 't see any reason to push my kids into anything they don 't want to do for themselves”. She also said that “it’s easy to let your kids quit activities when you 're neither emotionally nor financially invested”. She also gave an example by saying “If they don 't want to play organized soccer or learn an instrument or even go to camp at all, I 'm fine with that”. Basically wats she means is that some parents have to think about the cost and how they are doing emotionally are the kids happy of what they are doing or they just doing it just to pass up time and because someone told them to participate. And that parents should not push their kids into something they don’t want to be part of, instead they can make