Adventures in Darkness Chapter One

Within the first chapter of Adventures in the Darkness by Tom Sullivan, you soon come to find three blind boys escaping from what they call a prison. being blind since birth, Tom lived in a challenging world of isolation and special treatment. But he was driven to break out and live as normal people do. They have been planning their escape for awhile, gathering supplies to make it happen. Tying multiple blankets together and making a ladder out of the window and stealing a saw to cut through the lock to the boatyard are preperations. As they eventually escape and make it down the river an a little dinghy they find themselves almost capsizing in the middle of the biggest busiest ports in America in 1959, Boston. At the end of the chapter the coast guard had found them tied his ship off to theirs and boarded there boat, shocked to find the three blind boys.

Relax. You are Not the Perfect Parent, and It’s OK to Let Jonny use the iPad.

Jessica Valenti’s article explains that technology is to involved in children’s lives. Technology is being introduced to children to early in this century, children are overly dependent on the internet and playing games on the computer. Children at a young age are supposed to be creative and imaginative but with TV and games replacing them it lacks. Jessica states “I watched a video of a baby desperately trying to”swipe”a magazine with her finger – to that tiny technology native, a print publication was simply a malfunctioning iPad. I remember being horrified (and a tad judgemental)” (Valenti). But then as she realized when “Three years later, as I finished up some work on my laptop, my 4-year-old daughter tried to swipe our television screen. “It’s broken,” she said” (Valenti). Just sad to thing children as young as 4 are overly dependent on electronics, they have replaced there imagination. With technology growing fast over the past century’s Jessica says “But the panic over children’s technology use wrongly assumes that all parents before the internet or Apple were somehow spending hours a day making sure their kids were properly stimulated. Newsflash: We’re all semi-shitty at parenting, and have been for decades.” Technology has taken away from the things kids need the most especially at such a young age, their parents and imagination. As a kid i grew up with a playstation but also I went fishing and camping with my parents all the time as well. Video games were only for rainy days! I spent tons of time with my parents out of the technology era up until I was about 10 and MySpace came into play. The teenage years were spent playing more games ant texting all the time, although outdoor activities were still done just not as much. For children now I see so much indoor activities and rarely outdoor ones. Looking a my younger siblings now I already se a huge change in the ways of parenting and activities. The seven year old would rather watch TV then go play in the rain, crazy times.

The Key to Language

The key to language by Helen Keller Talks about the amazing things the human body, even as a blind and deaf person can do. Keller as a blind and deaf person learns to talk due to a very patient understanding teacher named Miss Sullivan. She taught her that everything had a name in this world and Keller was very eager to learn them with time. Despite being handicapped, she later graduated from Radcliffe college and became a world famous scholar. Although for her it was harder and took longer than most kids to learn she still was able to set herself up for success. She is a woman that despite everything mother nature threw at her she overcame and accomplished many things along the way. Today the world can be very harsh, hard to fit in and with disabilities like this it will only make it harder, people give up. Miss Sullivan didn’t give up on Keller she knew there was something special from the beginning and without her patience she would not be where she is today. Keller is an idol people look upon with language, anything is possible if you put your heart into it.