task three

I’m thinking about using Bakers essay “School vs. Sanctuary”, and Botstein’s essay “Let Teen-Agers Try Adulthood”. In Bakers essay I am focusing on how children learn from parents, school, and television. How what the children see when their younger stick with them as they grow. Some children will act negatively and will become unbearable to teachers, family, parents, and eventually society.  This is where I’m connecting Botstein’s essay. How adults don’t like teens and think they are uncontrollable when really we created them. They are spitting images of us. They watch us, family, the people on television and gather information and ideas that shape them in to the people we become. We can control what our children see and do. I think that parents don’t spend enough quality time with their children and don’t have enough communication. I see it as selfish and irresponsible for a parent to not care about what their child is doing when they’re not around. Once the teenage years hit then parents think it’s impossible to control their children and let them do what they want. Parents should be talking to their children, to them to keep them in line and under control.