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The article I chose was “How Similar Are You to the Adults Who Raised You?”. I feel like I do have a lot in common with my parents, but since I’ve been growing up in America, I’ve definitely picked up some American traits. My parents adapted to some of my American traits, which is why they added more food dishes to their menu. The similarities in our family are definitely a good thing, but when it comes to competition, it can get hectic. I haven’t experienced what Ms. Grose went through, but my parents probably did and I will probably experience that when I become a dad since that’s a common feeling. There are traits that i dont see myself adapting to, which is being extremely cheap. There are benefits to being cheap, but being too cheap to the point of being unhealthy isn’t something I want to do. Ms. Grose should express her feeling with her child with no filter and be straight up open. I feel like when parents aren’t talking openly without a filter, it makes it less meaningful. When my parents addresses similarties, they often add a story to make it memorable.

The article I chose is How good is you direction? In fact, My sense of direction is not good and not bad. I used to live in a small village when I was a kid. There was no smart phone and road indicator at that time, so the way I tried to find the way back home was remembering the landmark on my way home. For instance, my parents told me that there was a school in front of our village’s entrance. I tried to connect that school with my home, so when I saw that school, I knew I was close to my home. Remembering the landmark assists me cultivate some direction sense in some way. This method helps me do not get lost in most of time.

However, with the development of smart phone, our life become more convenient than before. I become rely on the smart phone map. This is easy a than remembering somewhere that helps me find the way. What I need to do is typing the name of the street on the phone, and the smart phone will tell you the direction. I can find my destination if I follow the instruction. In the other side, this convenient life style also weaken my sense of direction because it makes me do not want to remember the landmark on the street.

In my opinion, having a good sense of direction is still necessary for us. Even though the smart phone will tell us where the place is, but what if the phone is no battery or there is no signal in that area? This kind of situation is hard to predict, so it is still important for us to remember the landmark and cultivate some direction sense.

The Netflix show “Old Enough!” is about children ages 2-5 in japan going outside by themselves to do some errands like grocery shopping, going to a local farm, or walking to their grandparent’s house. The author writes that an American version of the show “wouldn’t fly”, and I agree because America is less safer than Japan. Approximately 2,300 children go missing everyday in the U.S. according to justgreatlawyers.com, so I can understand why it wouldn’t be a good to have a show like this in America. There are a lot more dangerous people out here that will harm children if they are seen alone. Kidnappings do happen in Japan, it’s just that a lot more children are kidnapped in the U.S. every year. The article also mentioned that in Japan, it’s safer for kids to cross the street by themselves because the drivers always drive slow in the neighborhoods (mostly because the neighborhoods has small blocks and a lot of intersections). In the U.S, it’s less safer for a child to cross the street by themselves because there are some drivers who speed through neighborhoods and end up hitting pedestrians. That’s why there are speed bumps and signs saying that children play here in some neighborhoods so there will be less accidents.

The writer says she hopes that the Netflix show “Old Enough!” will lead American parents to “consider the possibility that our cultural norms need a reset, or at least a rethink.” I think that some American parents can be overprotective but I don’t think they are being over protective in this case. It wouldn’t be smart to let a 2-5 year old in America run errands by themselves because it isn’t as safe here. I think that the parents start to become over protective if they won’t allow a teenager to gain more responsibility, but I think it makes sense for them to not give a child those types of responsibilities and be protective over them in America. I haven’t seen the show “Old Enough!” yet but I would like to watch it now that I’ve read about it. It would be interesting to watch because I never seen a tv show like this in America.