dad's weekend

This weekend was parents weekend for my sorority. My dad came in along with all of my friends dads. My dad mentioned to me that he thought it was really interesting the way relationships with parents and children have changed. This is a good thing though. Now we are much more open with our parents about what we do in college and we want to share that part of our lives with them. I know lately we have been reading about how our parents are so involved in our lives and constantly want to control and help us as we grow up, so this goes hand in hand with what I realized this weekend.
My dad told me that if there was a parents weekend when he was in college, he defiantly never would take his parents out to a party with him, or talk about his social lives with such openness. I feel like today parents and their kids sometimes even feel like more friends than anything. I can see a definite difference in the relationship I have with my parents and the relationship between my parents and my grandparents. My parents are very careful of what they around my grandparents. Their purpose is to please them. But I am not afraid to confront my parents on any issue.
I can see why some people would criticize these relationships because this way of relating to your parents can cause their presence in our lives to become overbearing and for them to be too involved. But personally I think that my closeness with my parents has allowed me to learn a lot from them and I am not afraid to talk to them about things that some kids would hide. I think as time goes on this new family structure will continue.

dangerous texting

Texting and driving is a topic that has been in the limelight recently. I always get really nervous when I’m in a car with my friends and they try to multitask by driving and texting at the same time. It only takes one second for your eyes to be away from the road for you to get in a terrible wreck. There are so many forms of distractions when we drive. Some women apply makeup while driving, change CDs, or get something out the backseat. It seems that all of us have a serious problem focusing on one thing. It is nothing new that multitasking comes with our generation. But texting has taken it to a new level.

I think the reason texting has is making such a fuss is because it is really hard for our generation to see that we have a text and wait to respond. We are so used to constant responses that we get antsy at the thought of waiting to answer. But because of this we are seeing a rise in the number of wrecks caused by our texting. The government is even making an effort to change this.

Obama has recently made a law that no federal workers can text while driving. It also has become illegal in several states altogether. I think that is a really good idea but I feel like this is not something easy for the police to enforce. There is no radar gun to detect cell phone use. Eventually there will be a new device that’s going to distract us; cell phones are just the most recent. I totally agree that texting needs to be managed for our safety but we are going to continue to get distracted no matter what.