Essays on Kids

Young generations today at their early age are aware of the power of money. Television commercials have a lot to do with this as well as other forms of advertisements that are openly reorienting children, and attracting children to spend money for the product they …

Patti Smith calls the book, Just Kids, a memoir rather than an autobiography. Her book is almost poetic in nature and written in a beautiful and engaging way. From the first pages, the reader is drawn to her words and imagery. In describing one of …

Many parents who put their kids into sports at a young age often grew up playing ports. They see themselves In their children and want them to be as good If not better than they were. It’s very hard for a child to enjoy the …

Griffin “Griff” Kubik is holding a dog leash, his 3-year-old fingers wrapped around the vinyl cord as a terrier sniffs the grass near his feet. It might not look like it to passersby in the park, but the duo are on the clock: They’re on …

In the Frontline video “When Kids Get Life” we were introduced to 5 cases in the state of Colorado where teenage boys had been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. After watching the video I found myself struggling to have an objective opinion on the …

Paul Corrigan’s ‘Schooling the smash street kids’ takes the ever problematic issues of education and youth and provides a glimpse into it from the other side of the street. Impulsive, informal and unorthodox in writing style, Corrigan talks as if you were an old friend, …

Context and concepts Paul Willis conducted a study called “Learning to labour” in 1977 in which he studied 12 working-class students in their last 18 months at a school in the West-Midlands, the methods he used were observation and participant observation. The boys he studied …

Robots can do many things humans can do, often better. They , stand in for and . One thing we're sure they can never do better: care for our kids.They can’t snuggle, kiss boo-boos or exhibit unconditional love, not like a mom or dad or …

GPS Kids who keep on skipping school frustrate lots of people like teachers and parents. Now the police and school officials are now deciding to use GPS. The first school in California to test this Global Positioning System was the Anaheim Union High School. Many …

Banning books blocks young children’s minds from real world information. By limiting their range of reading, their knowledge is lowered to a steady lull of comforting information. When they are pushed into situations relating to these topics, they are at a disadvantage. The Clan of …

Ambitions. An egger desire to achieve something in life. Now a days if you ask kids what are your ambitions forty two percent reply ‘I don’t have any I just go with the flow and see what life has in store for me’. Is this …

Kids deal with No I do not think this practice should continue. This is something that is not safe for kids so young, kids around this age should be in school learning new things making new friends having little study groups having sleep oversee they …

Whether any of us is individually happy or not about the outcome of the election, we can all agree that this election did not model responsible civic behavior, either online or off. Instead, we lived through a vicious campaign season that sharply divided our nation. We witnessed …

One summer, under the glimmering sunshine I was standing at the edge of a limpid and shallow green lake and watching my granddad to pull a large crab nest out of the lake. I was so jubilant to run over to my granddad to help …