So with the Hunger Games and Divergent on the up with school ages kids I've been thinking about this influx of dystopian literature. I'm wondering why it is exactly that this style of writing has taken off... Has our society reached a comfort with the idea of the world that we know being changed? Or is it that we are bouncing back from the fairy tale romantic thoughts to a point where we need to create a world that doesn't really exist? I just don't understand it. While I admire that kids are reading I wonder what it means that so much dsytopian literature that kids are getting comfortable with.... How will that affect the future of our world?
In other thoughts, I've been wondering about the concept of learned helplessness... The idea that where a child has learned that when a task seems too hard or seems menial that they will simply NOT do it. Instead they play this " I can't do thisssssss" BS or they don't come to school or they go to the bathroom and avoid....and I'm sorry but that will not get you places. What if I just decided that work was too hard and "I couldn't do it"? Would I be getting job offers and advancing my career? OH I DON'T THINK SO.... Come on now.... is it parenting styles are changing now? Or is it just that I'm more perceptive to it since kids missing school affects my teaching? Can any light be shed on this for me? Anyone anyone?
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