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Date Posted: 06:33:30 01/26/07 Fri
Author: Tish Colvin
Subject: Acting Older

In class last night we talked about the potential effect of creating a definitive rite of passage in the United States. We later discussed the increased use of technology. Time magazine had a recent article ("Busy is O.K. For Kids") with relevant information on both topics. The author mentions David Elkind, a pyschologist who has warned that overscheduling activities for children is harmful. In fact, in his book "The Hurried Child" he claims that "drug use, suicide, early sex, and bad grades" are due to children acting older partly thru the use of technology. In contrast, the Time article author (John Cloud) outlines how many psychosocial issues have actually improved over the years: lower teen pregnancy rate, a decrease in drug use, less school violence (which personally seems hard to believe but perhaps the recent incidents are just more publicized?). If Elkind was asked whether a definitive rite of passage might help U.S. adolescents he MIGHT say "yes" but I can imagine he would only encourage the event to happen in late adolescence (18 - 23 years of age) not early (11 - 14 years old) or middle adolescence (15 - 18 years old). In that way, children would not be forced to grow up too early - a phenomenon he views as dangerous.

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