Conner Flynn
10/13/16
ENGL1105
Abstract
Parenting Ted Talk was reviewed and discussed in many different aspects. The body language of the speaker was discussed as for how her movements affect the speech and relate to the audience. The reliability on whether the speaker has a well-known knowledge on the subject being spoken on is discovered and proven whether or not she should be speaking on the subject. Also the many different varieties of parenting styles are discussed and compared to each other and that of the speech.
Jennifer Senior’s ted talk, “For parents, happiness is a very high bar,” talks about many different aspects of parenting. With that said, some will possibly differentiate …show more content…
However, that is only part of the amount of experience that she has gained in the past. Senior has also written a book of her own by the name of “All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood” that displays all of what she discusses about the problems within modern day families, she talks about the reasons for my mothers of children are so restless, and she discusses why studying neuroscience, the study of the nervous system, is far more beneficial to raising a child or children than any of the parenting books of today’s time will (Bates, 2014). Senior is extremely qualified to write and speak about the subject due to her countless experience in and around the study. When she states in her book that it is best to study neuroscience, Senior (2014) is referring to parents that need to learn to “stop trying to reason” with their children because their children have not adapted that response yet to be able to reason the same way in return. Senior claims that studying the child’s nervous system will help the parents understand that the child lives mainly in the present and if you learn the background of the science, it will help the parents gain some relief that it is not their fault if something goes wrong. This studying also possesses the capability of changing their parenting ways to more affective and helpful to their child (Bates, 2014). The book that she wrote and the experience of all the traveling and observing that Jennifer Senior holds, helps her talk about the subject in a confident and motivational way of informing the vulnerable audience. The entire speech, the listeners can tell that he knows exactly what she is talking about and also believes in it enough to persuade the audience that the books are in fact, not as helpful. This helps a speaker in immense ways because she buys the