It was interesting that Sedaris connected the rise of misbehaving, zombie children to lower birth rates. I think the crucial question will be, how do these young humans un-zombify themselves? Where and when will it happen? I look around at many of my high school students, and see so many of them blissfully unaware of their immediate surr…
It was interesting that Sedaris connected the rise of misbehaving, zombie children to lower birth rates. I think the crucial question will be, how do these young humans un-zombify themselves? Where and when will it happen? I look around at many of my high school students, and see so many of them blissfully unaware of their immediate surroundings, and the happenings of the world. If we end a few minutes early, they all go right to their phones. Their heads tilt downward and their backs bend as one, like some strange prayer. Unfortunately, adults and children alike revel in the silence and the calm - it's certainly easier that way. There's no need to manage behavior when it's already being managed by a device, or, if you want to accept the worst of possibilities, by a communist country thousands of miles away. It's easy to know how to behave as an adolescent, too, if all you must do to appear normal and non-awkward is find something to look at on your phone. Still, how do our children emerge out of this ritualistic sleep-walking, which so many wander into almost as a rite of passage?
It was interesting that Sedaris connected the rise of misbehaving, zombie children to lower birth rates. I think the crucial question will be, how do these young humans un-zombify themselves? Where and when will it happen? I look around at many of my high school students, and see so many of them blissfully unaware of their immediate surroundings, and the happenings of the world. If we end a few minutes early, they all go right to their phones. Their heads tilt downward and their backs bend as one, like some strange prayer. Unfortunately, adults and children alike revel in the silence and the calm - it's certainly easier that way. There's no need to manage behavior when it's already being managed by a device, or, if you want to accept the worst of possibilities, by a communist country thousands of miles away. It's easy to know how to behave as an adolescent, too, if all you must do to appear normal and non-awkward is find something to look at on your phone. Still, how do our children emerge out of this ritualistic sleep-walking, which so many wander into almost as a rite of passage?