Similarities Between Shaw And Goodwin
Johanna García Menchaca May 18th
Essay
The purpose of this essay is to compare the content of two articles. The first one is called “How we gave birth to the toxic teenager” by Robert Shaw and the second article is called “No means no” which was written by Daisy Goodwin.
To begin with, both articles deal with a very important issue that is becoming more and more frequent in most of today´s families. The most remarkable characteristic of today is that parents find it very difficult to enforce boundaries to their kids. They are reluctant to disciplining them because they are afraid of the fact that their children may get upset and, for example, can have tantrums. Kids obviously do not like the idea …show more content…
They should be taught how to behave and also what types of food are appropriate for them to consume, when they ought to stop playing and go to sleep and these kinds of things. “The breeding ground of the epidemic of bad behaviour goes back to infancy.” “The change is evident right from birth” One common mistake is to suppose that a baby can decide when he can start doing certain things. They are not mature enough to make their own decisions so parents should tell them what to do. “...a child will spontaneously decide when to use the lavatory on his own...” “The idea that if a baby is presented with a sufficient range of foods it will instinctively choose a balanced diet.” Nothing good can be the result from their …show more content…
Robert Shaw remarks that as parents “are spread too thin to spend time” with their kids, they feel that the right thing to do is to soothe their kids with unhealthy snacks, faddish clothing, toys and television so that they can compensate, in some way for the lack of attention coming from them. As a consequence, they lavish pointless praise on the back of children without noticing it and they are doing them a disservice. On the other hand, Daisy Goodwin lets the readers understand that nowadays parents are so desperate that they even try to be their kids´ friends. Therefore, children feel so confident that they tend to treat them with contempt. She expresses her disapproval of their behaviour towards the kids. “The idea that some parents think of themselves as a friend to their child more than their parent is insidious.” She also claims that the parents job sometimes involves upsetting their kids as they can´t have always what they
Essay
The purpose of this essay is to compare the content of two articles. The first one is called “How we gave birth to the toxic teenager” by Robert Shaw and the second article is called “No means no” which was written by Daisy Goodwin.
To begin with, both articles deal with a very important issue that is becoming more and more frequent in most of today´s families. The most remarkable characteristic of today is that parents find it very difficult to enforce boundaries to their kids. They are reluctant to disciplining them because they are afraid of the fact that their children may get upset and, for example, can have tantrums. Kids obviously do not like the idea …show more content…
They should be taught how to behave and also what types of food are appropriate for them to consume, when they ought to stop playing and go to sleep and these kinds of things. “The breeding ground of the epidemic of bad behaviour goes back to infancy.” “The change is evident right from birth” One common mistake is to suppose that a baby can decide when he can start doing certain things. They are not mature enough to make their own decisions so parents should tell them what to do. “...a child will spontaneously decide when to use the lavatory on his own...” “The idea that if a baby is presented with a sufficient range of foods it will instinctively choose a balanced diet.” Nothing good can be the result from their …show more content…
Robert Shaw remarks that as parents “are spread too thin to spend time” with their kids, they feel that the right thing to do is to soothe their kids with unhealthy snacks, faddish clothing, toys and television so that they can compensate, in some way for the lack of attention coming from them. As a consequence, they lavish pointless praise on the back of children without noticing it and they are doing them a disservice. On the other hand, Daisy Goodwin lets the readers understand that nowadays parents are so desperate that they even try to be their kids´ friends. Therefore, children feel so confident that they tend to treat them with contempt. She expresses her disapproval of their behaviour towards the kids. “The idea that some parents think of themselves as a friend to their child more than their parent is insidious.” She also claims that the parents job sometimes involves upsetting their kids as they can´t have always what they