The article
of the article reviewed is “Invest Time for Your Children”. This article is
written by Lucia Tangkilisan. When I was read a title of article and beginning
paragraph of article, I was immediately interested what author would say about
the effect which happened to the children if they don’t have a time with their
parents because both parents are employed. This mean, money cannot shape the
children characteristic, although with the lot of money which earn by his or
her parents the children can get an expensive toy, good clothes, good meal and
many more.
The article is about an important
parents time with their children. There are two condition which mentioned in this
article, first the parents who give too much freedom to their children and the second
condition is the parents who feel they have unlimited freedom to do whatever
they wish. In the first condition, the children can have too much freedom by
their parents because their parents are focused on their jobs so they do not
have enough time for children. So, the children can easily fall victim such as
smoking, consuming liquors and narcotics, or free sex. On the other hand,
parents overly strict (blind discipline) can tend to their children to become
rebellious if there is a chance to get free from such blind discipline. The
parents should know to treat their children, they needs to be balance between
discipline and love. Love without discipline is a good way to spoil a child.
And discipline without love is will fertilize hypocrisy in family life.
The objective of the writer in this
article is to share his knowledge to the readers especially the parents how to
treat the children correctly. The writer wants parents to have balanced between
love and discipline, because of that if the children understand that they are
loved so that the children can respect family rule and discipline, then the
parents must not hurt the children feeling because it can lead rebellion when
they grow up. The content of the article is very important to the parents who
have children and it can educated the to educate their children. The language used
in article is for adults readers which difficult to understand. The style of
the narration is informative and it is inform to parents what they should do so
that quiet difficult to youngers readers to comprehend. To conclude, this
article is suitable to be read by adults who have children to realize how treat
the children and it is also not suitable
for the youngers readers.