An argument on raising the bar of happiness for children from the parents view

I recently had a chance to listen a video speech by Writer, Jennifer Senior in context to Kids happiness and parents view on it.

It was a 15 minute speech and she was all over the place missing the main context. There were quite a lot of interesting observations but again they all didn't fit well together to bring up the main point. More often than not, the speaker was jumping to conclusions and trying to be judgmental on certain topics.

Some places she was comparing children from different generations. Children being economically useful and useless is always there in different parts of the world and the conscious of raising them happy is as well. But she presents the scene as such gone are the times, when parents really wanted their children to be economically useful and today everybody wants to raise a happy kid which is not true. Even today kids go to work day in day out, in under-developed countries and in economically backward families, true to fact that parents were there in the gone by years who truly wanted their children to be happy. So that shows the speaker was getting to some conclusions with not enough supporting evidence.

Moreover, I am not sure of what’s wrong with studying books to raise a happy kid. Because our parents and their parents did not study a book to raise us, it doesn't mean that getting to know more about raising kids and improvising their lifestyles stands to a point of critics.  As the world is shrinking, technology is growing and information is within reach and we tend to do better things for our children in future. So raising the standard of bars for Happiness in parents view should not be seen indifferently.

The speaker never clearly defined what happiness meant for kids and how it was a blow for them by parents raising the bar of happiness for them. There were a few information points here and there, but they didn't really gel with the speech, rather looked aloof.  To top that the speaker really looked more stressed while delivering her speech. Ir respectively the props were nice and professional, were all set to stage and deliver a high profile note which lacked some gentle push and more organized and collective means of presentation. More so, the speech concluded with the message passed across as love your kids and never hurt them instead of parents raising the bar for happiness.

Please click on the following link to watch the video,

http://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_senior_for_parents_happiness_is_a_very_high_bar