Essential Background Information for Introduction:
Potential Hook/Grabber (Story, anecdote, quote about your issue):
Topic 1: Parental pressure at home
Explanation Homework
Evidence/Quotes: Parents tend to make sure their kids never leave the house because they want to “protect” them from certain things. This is causing kids to have no social life therefore causing them to know nothing about the outside world. (William Dougherty)
Explanation Chores
Evidence/Quotes: If a kid is cleaning his room and he misses a pair of pants the parents yell and him to pick it up because they need everything perfect because they want their house presentable even though no one is coming to the house. (James White and Gerald Masterson)
Explanation Schedule
Evidence /Quotes: Kids like to play outside with their friends. Their parents give them a time to be home so they can have dinner or something. The kid shows up two minutes late and the parents get furious at him for basically being on time. (William Dougherty)
Topic 2: Parental pressure at school
Explanation Grades
Evidence/Quotes: “I have counseled parents who tell me their child is so bright that they are capable of getting all A's and punish them if they don't. They also expect their children to enroll in every honors or advanced-placement class they can, run for student government office and go out for a sport” (Mitchell Rosen).
Explanation Course Levels
Evidence/Quotes: “They also expect their children to enroll in every honors or advanced-placement class they can, run for student government office and go out for a sport” (Mitchell Rosen).
Explanation Tutoring Access
Evidence /Quotes: Parents love to see their kids succeed, but the kids like to have their own time to themselves. The parents make them go to tutoring if they have grades less then what is expected out of them which takes away their free time. This creates a bad relationship between the kids and parents. (James White and Gerald Masterson)
Topic 3: Parental pressure during sports
Explanation Push to Perfection
Evidence/Quotes: “The pressure from parents, coaches and kids is to be better younger, pushing 70 percent of the kids to give up sports by age 13” (Nancy M. Snyderman)
Explanation Play time
Evidence/Quotes: Overly involved parents love to see their child play the sport they are playing. If the coach is not giving their child the amount of playing time the parent wants than the parent and the coach are going to have a problem. (Mitchell Rosen)
Explanation Refs/calls
Evidence /Quotes: The ref makes a bad call on a parent’s kid. The parent becomes enraged because of the call and gets in the ref’s face. This causes the overly involved parent a rage that embarrasses the kid. (Nancy Snyderman)
Topic 4: Parental pressure on a kids social life
Explanation Meddle
Evidence/Quotes: "Things we try to do often backfire, making things worse for a child” (Time Magizine).
Explanation Choose Friends
Evidence/Quotes: Parents try to persuade their children into choosing friends to their standards. This creates problems with the children’s choices because it makes them believe the people they choose are not good enough for them. (Mitchell Rosen)
Explanation Embarrass Kids
Evidence /Quotes: Parents enjoy picking their kids up in front of their friends in an angry way. They treat them differently if their friends seem to be bad kids. (Time Magazine)
Topic 5: What we can do to prevent Parental outrage towards their children
Explanation Set rules and regulations towards Parental outbursts
Evidence/Quotes: Rules and regulations are a good way to keep the game in line and the parents in the crowd also in line.
Explanation If out of hand ban parents from sporting events for a while
Evidence/Quotes: The ref and coaches should have the opportunity to throw parents out of a games area if they are behaving in a bad way.
Explanation Have parents sign agreements before seasons
Evidence /Quotes: Parents should sign agreements to make sure they behave at sporting events.
Dustin Sands
Informative Research Product Organizer
Homework
Parents tend to make sure their kids never leave the house because they want to “protect” them from certain things. This is causing kids to have no social life therefore causing them to know nothing about the outside world.
(William Dougherty)
Chores
If a kid is cleaning his room and he misses a pair of pants the parents yell and him to pick it up because they need everything perfect because they want their house presentable even though no one is coming to the house.
(James White and Gerald Masterson)
Schedule
Kids like to play outside with their friends. Their parents give them a time to be home so they can have dinner or something. The kid shows up two minutes late and the parents get furious at him for basically being on time.
(William Dougherty)
Grades
“I have counseled parents who tell me their child is so bright that they are capable of getting all A's and punish them if they don't. They also expect their children to enroll in every honors or advanced-placement class they can, run for student government office and go out for a sport” (Mitchell Rosen).
Course Levels
“They also expect their children to enroll in every honors or advanced-placement class they can, run for student government office and go out for a sport” (Mitchell Rosen).
Tutoring Access
Parents love to see their kids succeed, but the kids like to have their own time to themselves. The parents make them go to tutoring if they have grades less then what is expected out of them which takes away their free time. This creates a bad relationship between the kids and parents.
(James White and Gerald Masterson)
Push to Perfection
“The pressure from parents, coaches and kids is to be better younger, pushing 70 percent of the kids to give up sports by age 13” (Nancy M. Snyderman)
Play time
Overly involved parents love to see their child play the sport they are playing. If the coach is not giving their child the amount of playing time the parent wants than the parent and the coach are going to have a problem.
(Mitchell Rosen)
Refs/calls
The ref makes a bad call on a parent’s kid. The parent becomes enraged because of the call and gets in the ref’s face. This causes the overly involved parent a rage that embarrasses the kid.
(Nancy Snyderman)
Meddle
"Things we try to do often backfire, making things worse for a child” (Time Magizine).
Choose Friends
Parents try to persuade their children into choosing friends to their standards. This creates problems with the children’s choices because it makes them believe the people they choose are not good enough for them.
(Mitchell Rosen)
Embarrass Kids
Parents enjoy picking their kids up in front of their friends in an angry way. They treat them differently if their friends seem to be bad kids.
(Time Magazine)
Set rules and regulations towards Parental outbursts
Rules and regulations are a good way to keep the game in line and the parents in the crowd also in line.
If out of hand ban parents from sporting events for a while
The ref and coaches should have the opportunity to throw parents out of a games area if they are behaving in a bad way.
Have parents sign agreements before seasons
Parents should sign agreements to make sure they behave at sporting events.