Is It Tough Being A Kid Summary

In both articles, “What’s it like to be a kid in the White House? Kids have a lot of ideas” by Caitlin Gibson and “Is it tough being a kid? Try being a president’s kid” by Darlene Superville, the authors present what it is like to be a president’s child and to live in the White House. I believe the article “What’s it like to be a kid in the White House? Kids have a lot of ideas”, portrays the life of a president’s child more accurately because the article incorporates what ordinary ten-year-olds think. One can imagine what ten-year-old Barron Trump might be going through. The article illustrates the children’s imaginations, ideas and suggestions about life for the youngest Trump child and living in the White House. This is proven when the article states, “What kids think: One downside is there’s probably a lot of pressure on a first kid to behave properly at all times, the surveyed 10-year-olds agreed… What it’s really like: First kids definately face pressure to behave a certain way--- and when they don’t, it does tend to draw attention...”(Gibson
As a result, the reader is shown how ordinary ten-year-olds can accurately image the reality of being a child of a president. They realize it is not all just having fun and doing whatever you want. On the other hand, some people would argue that “Is it tough being a kid? Try being a president’s kid”, more accurately displays the life of Barron Trump, but in the article, adults are explaining the life of being a first child. The article ends up using examples from previous first children of the White House, that are now adults and other adult White House experts. For example “Doug Wead, who wrote a book about the children of the presidents, said it’s the ‘ultimate hurt’ when the offspring become the vehicle for the ire that some grownups wish they could direct toward the president. He said kids become targets because they’re