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Babysitting Speech

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In the last few decades, many circumstances have been changed to adapt to what the modernizing society demands. For example, parents have revised society to what they believe would create an auspicious environment for their children. The lecturer, Dr. Wendy Mogel, begins her speech with the example of babysitting, and that children used to babysit at the adolescent age of nine. However, in contemporary times, according to Dr. Mogel, nine year olds have babysitters, a security guard, and an adult watching over them. She then continues her explanation will an example of a kindergarten teacher. Dr. Mogel referenced this teacher, and a student of hers, two physician parents who confronted the teacher accusing the Kindergarten curriculum of not …show more content…

I make these assumptions using the information that parents shelter their children to an extreme extent killing their want to help, as declared in the lecture. Furthermore, children are born with the desire to want to help others, but that is repressed by their parents who teach them to let people help them, instead of doing those acts for themselves. I believe that adolescent juveniles are more open to suggestion, which is why they allow their parents to do most tasks for them. To further explain, because their parents do many jobs for them, they believe that this is what the right thing is. If this is truly the case, then by sheltering their children, parents are killing their want to help others and avert carrying out essential tasks for themselves. This can be seen in the experiment done by Michael Tomasello, which displays that children want to help. Toddlers and infants demonstrate an ability not seen in many adults, the want to care for, and provide abetment for others. This instinct comes from the exercise of altruism, which releases the beneficial drugs; oxytocin, dopamine, and endorphins, within the body. However, as mentioned previously this capacity does not last for very long after these young children begin to mature. In an experiment carried out by American developmental

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