Week 5 Assignment essay

Week 5 Assignment essay

Today, American children spend more time at home than their parents did. Moreover, the youngest generation is definitely the ‘homeland’ generation as Neil Howe defines it because they spend most of their time at home, excluding outdoor activities or minimizing the time they spend on such activities. In a long-run perspective, this trend can lead to the consistent change of traditional social relations as children will grow up, while their shift to the virtual world may persist and grow stronger in their children that will lead to the change of communities of the future.

According to Howe (2) about a half of children of the age of 3-5 do not go outside daily with their parents. In such a way, from the early childhood children grow accustomed to spend their leisure time at home. In half a century, if the trend to staying home persists, the future communities will change consistently because people will change their relationships. If children do not go outside, they grow up with different social experience compared to contemporary people. In fifty years, people will live in the world of their own, as they are likely to spend most of their time at home, refusing from life communication with different people.

Furthermore, such change in the behavior of people will lead to the change in the community life of the future. People are likely to look for uniqueness and exclusiveness that will put in avant-garde of the community life “remarkable” individuals that will shape up remarkable communities (Frey, 7).  Living in isolation from each other, people will focus on the development of their individuals skills and talents.

Thus, the future can change, if people will not maintain close social relations from the childhood. If they spend most of their time at home, they are likely to become highly individualistic and so will be communities of the future.