Hasnain says:

In this article the author talks about personal experiences mentoring teenagers, and how the modern society (and technology) are contributing to an extremely high stress daily environment for these kids.

It starts with a bang, mentioning technological innovations (which I hadn't heard about) like apps sending push notifications about new assignments and past test results, so kids are unable to disconnect and are always worrying about school.

The article talks about the parallels between this and working lives for adults (specifically the current millennial generation); with an aside into the constant pressure to be set up for the best education, then the best career - while they are already hearing from millennials that there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

Choice quote: "We owe it to the kids in our country to at least diagnose their disease, which is a society that turns children into stressed, anxious, competitive, indebted consumers. We do this to prepare them for their grown-up lives in a society that turns all people into stressed, anxious, competitive, indebted consumers."

Posted on 2019-01-11T02:52:39+0000