Hurried Child Syndrome
Brandon Gabrielson
What is Hurried Child Syndrome?
Hurried child syndrome is exactly what it sounds like, hurrying children. This is an outcome of parents forcing their kids into too many extracurricular activies, such as sports and boy scouts. Children being overscheduled results in the lack of a childhood.
Play
Children that play are children that are happy. Although some children are able to choose what they do, they may pick too many activities and lose their free time. Free time is what allows children to truly be happy, playing with toys and using their imagination. If they lose this much-needed time they will get stressed out.
Timeline
I believe that the hurried child syndrome began after WWII when more and more women worked full time jobs, and were no longer housewives. As the century moved along, the hurried child syndrome first became obvious in the 70s and it was mild. Currently, this phenomenon is at its' worst. Due to technology, current young teens are trying to be adults.
Technology
Technology is the biggest cause of the hurried child syndrome. It allows children into social media and to find things out earlier than they should. This is what leads 10 year olds walking around with make up and miniskirts. Along with technology, it is bad parenting. Parents nowadays aren't regulating what their children watch on TV or do on the internet.