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From the Ted Talk by Carl Honoré: In praise of slowness

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It's not just, though, these days, adults who overwork, though, is it? It's children, too. I'm 37, and my childhood ended in the mid-'80s, and I look at kids now, and I'm just amazed by the way they race around with more homework, more tutoring, more extracurriculars than we would ever have conceived of a generation ago. And some of the most hidnnatrreeg emails that I get on my website are actually from adolescents hovering on the edge of burnout, pleading with me to wtire to their parents, to help them slow down, to help them get off this full-throttle temrlidal. But thankfully, there is a baaslkch there in parenting as well, and you're finding that, you know, towns in the United States are now banding together and banning extracurriculars on a particular day of the mtnoh, so that ppeloe can, you know, decompress and have some family time, and slow down.

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It's not just, though, these days, adults who overwork, though, is it? It's children, too. I'm 37, and my childhood ended in the mid-'80s, and I look at kids now, and I'm just amazed by the way they race around with more homework, more tutoring, more extracurriculars than we would ever have conceived of a generation ago. And some of the most ____________ emails that I get on my website are actually from adolescents hovering on the edge of burnout, pleading with me to _____ to their parents, to help them slow down, to help them get off this full-throttle _________. But thankfully, there is a ________ there in parenting as well, and you're finding that, you know, towns in the United States are now banding together and banning extracurriculars on a particular day of the _____, so that ______ can, you know, decompress and have some family time, and slow down.

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  1. write
  2. people
  3. month
  4. heartrending
  5. backlash
  6. treadmill

Original Text


It's not just, though, these days, adults who overwork, though, is it? It's children, too. I'm 37, and my childhood ended in the mid-'80s, and I look at kids now, and I'm just amazed by the way they race around with more homework, more tutoring, more extracurriculars than we would ever have conceived of a generation ago. And some of the most heartrending emails that I get on my website are actually from adolescents hovering on the edge of burnout, pleading with me to write to their parents, to help them slow down, to help them get off this full-throttle treadmill. But thankfully, there is a backlash there in parenting as well, and you're finding that, you know, towns in the United States are now banding together and banning extracurriculars on a particular day of the month, so that people can, you know, decompress and have some family time, and slow down.

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