Furthermore, the author shares her childhood memories by explaining about the amount of time she spent unsupervised during her immaturity age and comparing that with the current trend of being monitored most of the time by the guardians. Meanwhile Rosin …show more content…
Similarly, the author mentions about Roger Hart and his findings of 1971 which showed that “children spent immense amounts of time on their own, creating imaginary landscapes their parents sometimes know nothing about“(Rosin, 82).Comparing results from 1971 and 2004, parents now a days are more restrictive and observant on their children than those previously, keeping in mind that these parents were the children in 1971. Later, the author shows her concern on the partial development of middle class children due to skipping of daily milestones which were earlier considered as the key to build confidence. The author argues that children “spend a lot of time in the company of adults, so they can talk and think like them, but they never build up the confidence to be truly independent and self-reliant.”(Rosin,