Raising kids today has been more challenging than ever before. Parents face more choices and problems in healthcare, education, transportation, safety, nutrition, and all other aspects of life. With advances in medicine, we are able experience improved fertility success and decreased infant mortality. While these advances allow us to become parents more easily, they don't help us resolve the challenges we face.
Today's children enjoy many conveniences and luxury the previous generations simply didn't have. Kids now have toys for every aspect of their development for every age, gender, and hobby. They play with video games, computers, iPads, iTouch, and smart phones. It's not uncommon to see a two-year old tapping on a smart phone and gets …show more content…
With over 12 million children classified with weight issues, associate health risks later in life can significantly affect their quality of life as well as implication on the healthcare system. Quality of a child's life can be in jeopardy here. An obese child can't play the same way or participate in sports of his/her liking. Obese kids are also more likely to be bullied than their thin classmates. Such negative experience in the school may lead to anxiety, depression, social isolation, low self-esteem, and lack of interest in academics. The obesity issue has even caught the attention of the first lady. Mrs. Obama's childhood obesity campaign has brought much needed attention on the subject. Hopefully, with increased awareness and intervention, this obesity trend can be stopped, reversed, or slowed …show more content…
Parents just face a different set of them, such as driving and texting. This is a deadly combination. Roughly one third of drivers admit to sending or receiving texts while driving, many do so on a regular basis. This has become the new drunk driving. Car accident is already the leading cause of death for American teenagers, and texting make it more likely to occur. Multiple states have already banned texting while driving; others have residents lobbying for the same regulation. Courts are handing out tougher punishment for offenders, hoping to deter others from repeating the same
Today's children enjoy many conveniences and luxury the previous generations simply didn't have. Kids now have toys for every aspect of their development for every age, gender, and hobby. They play with video games, computers, iPads, iTouch, and smart phones. It's not uncommon to see a two-year old tapping on a smart phone and gets …show more content…
With over 12 million children classified with weight issues, associate health risks later in life can significantly affect their quality of life as well as implication on the healthcare system. Quality of a child's life can be in jeopardy here. An obese child can't play the same way or participate in sports of his/her liking. Obese kids are also more likely to be bullied than their thin classmates. Such negative experience in the school may lead to anxiety, depression, social isolation, low self-esteem, and lack of interest in academics. The obesity issue has even caught the attention of the first lady. Mrs. Obama's childhood obesity campaign has brought much needed attention on the subject. Hopefully, with increased awareness and intervention, this obesity trend can be stopped, reversed, or slowed …show more content…
Parents just face a different set of them, such as driving and texting. This is a deadly combination. Roughly one third of drivers admit to sending or receiving texts while driving, many do so on a regular basis. This has become the new drunk driving. Car accident is already the leading cause of death for American teenagers, and texting make it more likely to occur. Multiple states have already banned texting while driving; others have residents lobbying for the same regulation. Courts are handing out tougher punishment for offenders, hoping to deter others from repeating the same