Technology and Helicopter Parents Through Kathryn Tyler
Throughout Kathryn Tyler’s article, “The Tethered Generation,” she discusses the effects of technology and helicopter parents on the millennial generation. Tyler believes that technology has become an easy way for parents to continue to watch over their children as they age (Tyler 478). Tyler also says technology is helping oppressive parents continue to smother their children and that people in the millennial generation are not becoming adults in every aspect of life in the time frame they should be (478). An enormous factor of growing up is being able to make mistakes and figure out problems and solutions alone. This is being taken away by cell phones because young adults constantly …show more content…
Tyler uses several personal stories and quotes from a variety of people to help enhance the argument of millennials being a different generation than any other generation. Millennials are the first generation to have grown up with cell phones and advanced technology. Tyler’s argument about millennials is that they are attached to their phones and they have “helicopter parents,” which are parents who are overbearing and do not let their children become independent, and employers are the ones who have to adjust to this new generation that is slowly entering the workforce. To prove this argument, the use of pathos is exercised repeatedly throughout the article by discussing the life experiences of Robert Epstein, who is a visiting scholar at the University of California in San Diego and the West Coast editor of Psychology Today (Tyler 479). Epstein tells Tyler about a time when a parent of one of his college students intervened in his way of teaching by sending the chair of Epstein’s department a letter complaining that his daughter felt intimidated when Epstein said he expected nothing less than hard work and sacrifice in his class (Tyler 479). Epstein explains even further how this young college student will struggle throughout life because she has helicopter parents. He touches on what it is going to be like when the student obtains a job and her father does not think the amount of work she has is acceptable (Tyler 479). By bringing in the thoughts of Robert Epstein, Tyler appeals to pathos because of the personal story. Readers will be able to relate to the story since it is realistic and the reader can picture themselves a part of the
Throughout Kathryn Tyler’s article, “The Tethered Generation,” she discusses the effects of technology and helicopter parents on the millennial generation. Tyler believes that technology has become an easy way for parents to continue to watch over their children as they age (Tyler 478). Tyler also says technology is helping oppressive parents continue to smother their children and that people in the millennial generation are not becoming adults in every aspect of life in the time frame they should be (478). An enormous factor of growing up is being able to make mistakes and figure out problems and solutions alone. This is being taken away by cell phones because young adults constantly …show more content…
Tyler uses several personal stories and quotes from a variety of people to help enhance the argument of millennials being a different generation than any other generation. Millennials are the first generation to have grown up with cell phones and advanced technology. Tyler’s argument about millennials is that they are attached to their phones and they have “helicopter parents,” which are parents who are overbearing and do not let their children become independent, and employers are the ones who have to adjust to this new generation that is slowly entering the workforce. To prove this argument, the use of pathos is exercised repeatedly throughout the article by discussing the life experiences of Robert Epstein, who is a visiting scholar at the University of California in San Diego and the West Coast editor of Psychology Today (Tyler 479). Epstein tells Tyler about a time when a parent of one of his college students intervened in his way of teaching by sending the chair of Epstein’s department a letter complaining that his daughter felt intimidated when Epstein said he expected nothing less than hard work and sacrifice in his class (Tyler 479). Epstein explains even further how this young college student will struggle throughout life because she has helicopter parents. He touches on what it is going to be like when the student obtains a job and her father does not think the amount of work she has is acceptable (Tyler 479). By bringing in the thoughts of Robert Epstein, Tyler appeals to pathos because of the personal story. Readers will be able to relate to the story since it is realistic and the reader can picture themselves a part of the