Analysis Of What To Do With The Kids This Summer? Put Em To Work

The summer is a long break for most kids so many people wonder what is the best way for them to spend it. In Ben Sasse's opinion piece, "What to do with the Kids This Summer? Put 'Em to Work", he makes it clear that a teenager, among other things, should get a summer job in order to cultivate the necessary traits to become a successful adult. As a teenager myself with my own set of personal experiences and observances, I agree with Sasse's view that summer employment is the best way to build self-reliance among teenagers and that travel for kids is beneficial. I agree with Ben Sasse's claim that hard and meaningful work is vital to the development of a teeanger because it cultivates the traits of a successful adult, as seen in my own life.

This shows that it is of the utmost importance to have kids experience hard work from a young age because then they are able to gain the necessary skills and traits, such as discipline, a hard work ethic, and confidence, to overcome future hardships, thereby helping them mature faster rather than having to do so when they are near adulthood. Now as a teenager myself, I can confidently state that hard work has been crucial to my life. For instance, most of the memories from my earliest years consist of doing chores that in hindsight were not hard

For example, Sasse views travel as, “...an opportunity to help our kids to get out of their comfort zones, learn to see different social and economic arrangements.” (Sasse 18). Ben Sasse views travel simply as a way to get out of one’s own bubble to learn about the various living situations that people, even a neighborhood away, experience. Therefore, although traveling is not the only way for a kid to be made aware of the different circumstances that people around the world experience on a daily basis, it is one of the most effective ways as they will be able to experience them firsthand. This sentiment holds true in my own life as well as for many others. For instance, according to the Wandering Wages, a family who in their ten years of parenting have traveled to four different continents, have observed that among many other things, “Kids who travel gain a better understanding of the greater world than those who don’t experience life abroad” (https://wanderingwagars.com/8-reasons-travel-kids/#:~:text=Each%20time%20they%20are%20introduced,that%20will%20last%20a%20lifetime). Wandering Wage’s observation shows that travel for kids is important because they get to view a different environment from their own, allowing them to gain a better grasp of the world around them, a similar conclusion reached by Ben Sasse. This is significant because traveling,