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Interesting Details about "The hurried child"

- "Stress impairs children's ability to learn and teachers' ability to teach," and hurrying children puts stress on them (page 16).

- Children who are hurried may not understand what is going on, and they may resent the hurrying, which may result in resentment toward their parents.

- "Human beings are complex, and in all probability we learn things in more than one way" (page 143).

- Elkind talks a lot about stress especailly stress within children. In chapter one Elkind writes, "Not surprisingly, the stresses of growing up to fast often result in troubled and troublesome behavior during adolescence" (12).

- Media, parents, school are the three things that Elkind talks the most about in hurrying children.

- Elkind also talks about what stress does to children and how children react to stress like school burnout. School burnout is when student are under to much stress and they lose all hope in their learning.

Summary of "The hurried child"

David Elkind’s book The Hurried Child talks about the many different ways that our children are rushed in today’s society. He shows many different areas that the children have been rushed that many of us wouldn’t think about. Many of these factors play a major role in the stress children experience these days. He points out ways that parents, teachers, and the society as a whole are adding to the stress levels, and how they can help prevent some, too. Elkind explains that children are like an empty bottle on an assembly line. There is too much of a desire to not only fill the bottles faster but also earlier. He also describes how we expect our children to grow up so much quicker to just make it more convenient for us. If they can do everything that we once had to do for them, it would make it easier on us in the long run. The question is, is it really fair to our children to expect them to grow up quicker instead of letting them just be children?

The book The Hurried Child points out the many ways that we hurry children through media, in schools and at home. It points out to its reader where the hurrying occurs and why.

1. In Schools:

· Students are given high academic expectations from parents and teachers

· Students are stereotyped

· Schools participate in Assembly-Line Learning

· Students are pushed into a routine of adult work resulting in “school burnout”

2. Through Media:

· Tv shows, advertising, and movies: Provides too much information too fast and exposes children to adult content and violence they are not ready for. Relies heavily on seductive dress and sexual innuendo for humor and drama. These can cause children to behave in adult ways

· Music: Music advertising is aimed directly at adolescents. “The music industry offers young people role models whose concerns, pleasures, and fantasies -daily pressures, school, sex, drugs, cars, and the endless party-speak to them directly.” Pg.97

3. At home:

· Divorce or separation: Causes multiple types of stress such as change over-load. It hurries children because it forces them to deal with separations that, in the usual course of events, they would not have to deal with until adolescence or young adulthood.

· Giving children adult responsibilities resulting in responsibility over-load

4. Antidote through play:

· Allowing our children to play is the best antidote for a hurried child and is great for their minds “children get all the stimulation they need from things they encounter in the everyday world- crawling in grass, playing with pots, hearing you speak." Children need the chance to stop the hurry and just be a kid. “It is children’s right to be children, to enjoy the pleasures, and to suffer the pains of a childhood that is infringed by hurrying. In the end, a childhood is the most basic human right of children” (Elkind, pg 221)

Part 2: Hurried Children:

Stressed Children

What we thought about

Work Cited

The hurried child

by: David Elkind, Ph.D.

Elkind, D. (1981). The hurried child:

Growing up too fast too soon (3rd ed.).

Presented by:

Amber Wright

Kateland Mauldin

Obrey Burks

Megan Love

Part 1: Our Hurried Child

I think The Hurried Child by David Elkind is very informative for parents and teachers. It opened my eyes up to how many different factors can play a role in adding stress to children’s lives, especially in how today’s society hurries them. I liked how Elkind included all factors that hurry children ranging from parent relations, media, society as a whole, and even schools. He gave information on all areas, not leaving out any, and not stressing one area more than the rest. I was glad that the book addressed the use of technology and even education at young ages because I don’t think many people are aware of the disadvantages and the harm it can bring on any child. I believe this book could be helpful to parents and teachers when they are unaware of why their children or students are acting out or having resentment. Overall, I think this book is a very good resource for parents, teachers, students, and even leaders in our country.

-Megan Love

Our Reaction to "The hurried child" by David Elkind, Ph.d

When I started to read this book the first sentences really stood out to me and what this book is all about. Even though this book is all about the hurried child but is all about the stress that students have on them in the classroom but also outside of the classroom. Parents and schools have a big impact on students learning and also how much students have to learn before they move up to the next grade. Students are pushed to do better and learn more because people think that they can do more when they really can't. Elkind really pointed out what happens to children when they are hurried. As a future teacher, I think this book pointed out things that I should focus on, so that I don't hurry my students.

-Amber Wright

The thing that hit me hard was when I thought about all of the times that I told my daughters I would spend time with them and ended up on my phone checking email, doing homework, or looking at pinterest for a project. I have made myself a goal to stop spending so much time on my phone when I am supposed to be spending time with my family.

There were parts in the book that weren’t as interesting to me, but most of it was very informational. We know, going into the education field, that the children are being rushed more and more every day. This book just shows us proof of that theory. We just have to work to try to make them feel a little more comfortable and ready for the way it is going to be.

-Obrey Burks

I thought this The Hurried Child by David Elkind was an excellent read not just for parents but for teachers. It showed ways that our society today hurries our children through school, media, and at home in an eye-opening way.

-Kateland Mauldin

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