Our Hurried Children

I just finished reading the article “Our Hurried Children”. This article was written in 1981 and I found it to be very interesting. I don’t normally like or read that much nonfiction writing but I thought this article was very well thought out. I don’t think there are going to many many thingsa to try and find a deep meaning for but I will discuss it.

I agreed with most of what the author said in this article. I didn’t however agree with some of the things that he was talking about. I don’t think that the expression “Early ripe, early rot” should apply to all of these aged children. I think this has worked for some children. I have actually had friends with crazy parents who only wanted to talk about how their kids were so smart and would make their kids skip grades and stuff. These kids still turned out fine however. The only problem with some of these kids I know is that they are a little conceited in their own self image, but truly who isn’t a little conceited.

I did agree with the sexuality of teens becoming a huge problem though. This is becoming a huge problem in today’s society. Adult clothing companies are targeting younger and younger ages and it is getting pretty ridiculous. The fact that 9 and ten year olds are wearing the same type of clothes as 17 and 18 year olds is a huge problem. The fact that girls are wearing make up at a younger age is pretty bad too. It doesn’t make sense because from the second a girl puts on make up the brain automatically thinks that she can’t look good without it and the girl is constantly having to wear makeup. Things are definitely getting worse.

This article was very appealing to me because it was on a topic that I like to talk about. Most non-fiction writing bores me and I am unable to focus on reading it, but this article was a very good read for me.