Eltern Ecke » Canadian teens busiest in OECD - infos für eltern

Hallo

als teen hat man also in ca am meisten zu arbeiten - mehr als in de
beachtenswert sind auch die zahlen für die bezahlte arbeit der jungen leute - die ja alle noch zur schule oder auf die uni gehen sollten

infos für eltern


Canadian teens busiest in OECD
Canadian Press

May 23, 2007 at 9:32 AM EDT

OTTAWA — Many teens carry a heavier load than people give them credit for, despite the stereotypical image of nonchalant teenage loungers, a new study says.

Canadian teens ranked first among their counterparts in nine OECD countries in terms of average hours spent on unpaid and paid labour during the school week.

Canadian teens averaged 7.1 hours of unpaid and paid labour per day in 2005 – a 50-hour work week, virtually the same as that of adult Canadians aged 20 to 64 doing the same activities.

The Statistics Canada study found that the vast majority of teens aged 15 to 19 who live at home with their parents average 9.2 hours of school work, homework, paid work and housework on school days and 3.5 hours on weekends.

The study found the relatively high workloads cause some stress: 16 per cent of the teens surveyed considered themselves workaholics; 39 per cent felt under constant pressure to accomplish more than they could handle, and nearly two-thirds (64 per cent) cut back on sleep to get things done.

Homework was the most time-consuming unpaid activity for teens, with 60 per cent averaging two hours, 20 minutes every day.

Boys with Canadian-born parents did significantly less homework than girls in similar families, and less than either girls or boys with immigrant parents, while teens with demanding paid jobs of 20 hours-plus per week did significantly less homework than those who were not employed.

The study found that too much part-time student employment can interfere with school and cause personal stress.





und nun die kommentare der leute - just als infos für eltern hier in der liste



A RazorWit from Belleville,, Canada writes: What a crock! This is the third article in the past three or four months that tells us that teens today are stressed. Stress for each teenage generation has been and is entirely relative. There is no more or no less stress amongst Canadian teenagers than there was 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 years ago. The results weren't even interpreted correctly by the author of this article. All this trash does is give those who practice "parenting in-abstentia," justification. My teen is too stressed now and we should give them a break. Well, life is not fair...get use to the fact! By the way, this statement was taken from a speech Bill Gates gave to highschool students at a graduation ceremony. One other thing that Bill said was that you won't be a vice-president, own a computer, cell phone and sports car right out of school. People in the real world care nothing about you finding yourself and destressing. Do that on your own time. People will look for what you can produce in tangible results BEFORE you get the big paycheck and all the bling. Really? I thought it was our duty as parents to provide a low stress environment for teens to watch TV, get fat, not exercise, avoid homework, avoid the stress of getting a real part time job or taking out the garbage, have a computer, games, a cell phone to keep in touch, etc etc. Excuse me whilst I yack! The stress is relative people. Maybe we should help teens learn how to deal with it rather than stepping in and making excuses for them...just a dumb thought by a non-in-abstentia parent...
Posted 23/05/07 at 12:16 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment

Canadian Citizen from Toronto, Canada writes: Teens learning, working, doing...yes, let's all heap scorn upon them and tell them they'll never be good enough, never face the hardships we endured. What bull. Would never serve up such juvenile, negative garbage as JD and Roy Anderson spew here to my two smart, active, engaged, intelligent kids.

Think I'll stick with positive reinforcement and support to my kids to learn all they can, work as hard as they can, and grow, mature, and lead to make up for the many, many Canadian JDs and Roy Anderson's, who so brashly show themselves to be dull witted, narrow-minded, non-contributors.
Posted 23/05/07 at 12:29 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
Some Day from East of West, Canada writes: Thanks for the feedback on Roy's comment as I did not bother reading it and with obvious good reason. Yes there are 30 countries currently in OECD but only nine keep data that StatCan could compare for this study. Hopefully this trend continues as it probably bodes well for the Canadian economy in the future. However, perhaps teacher Glenn has a good point in our kids may need some additional help in time management.
Posted 23/05/07 at 12:33 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
A RazorWit from Belleville,, Canada writes: Canadian Citizen from Toronto, Canada: I am with you on this one. If you are there to catch them doing things right it is amazing how quickly they learn. However, if you are not there paying attention, listening and guiding them parents should feel very guilty. My experience has been that when parrents are made to feel guilty they say and do all kinds of stupid things...
Posted 23/05/07 at 12:35 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
Carlos Jose from Happytown, Canada writes: Here's another way to look at it: Today's teens have an average 16.9 hours a day in which to do whatever they want. I think that is quite a bit more than in some previous generations. Take out 8 hours a day for sleep, and that still leaves your average teen with 8.9 hours a day of hanging at the mall, loitering in the park, mingling with their pals at the theatre, etc, etc. Hardly high-stress, here. Lets talk about child labour in Asian countries where if a 12-year-old had two hours a day to relax she/he would consider themselves unbelievably fortunate. This study does nothing but show how little we appreciate how good we have it. I count myself fortunate to have realized to a small degree how good I had it in high school. I knew that life would get busier and harder after that (and it did, but not unmanageably so). Even as an adult, employed full-time and a father of young children, I still find time to relax. We need to start revelling in the good things we have, and maybe start concerning ourselves with those parts of the world where life really does suck. How about an article stating: Canadians have great wealth and luxuries that most of the world can only dream about? Just my $0.02.
Posted 23/05/07 at 12:35 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
Bob Rollheiser from Canada writes: When they have to walk up hill both ways to school in howling snowstorms every day after doing 4 hours of farm chores and at least as much homework, this article migh be believable. The slivers we got from side rules were every bit as bad as the calouses kids today get from vidio game controls. Bah, whippersnappers. Probably never got flogged for bad mouthing the school marm either. Kinda doubt if many of them are even awake 50 hours a week.
Posted 23/05/07 at 12:40 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
Richard Hawrelak from Sarnia, Canada writes: Glenn Finockio from Winnipeg: Re your statement: "I think that with some time management guidance, these teens would find they have more than enough time to complete their daily tasks."

You and I are on the same page here. I have had the opportunity to coach some of the best athletes Sarnia turns out. Many were also Ontario Scholars. I have often asked them how they manage their hectic sports career and still maintain good marks prior to entering University. The common factor, I have found, is good time management, as you state.

I am now a lecturer at UWO and many of the students I've coached are actually co-workers. Take for example Dr. Karen Danylchuk, past Chair of the Department of Kinesiology. Karen was a top athlete in high school, a ranked Ontario tennis player, and the top of her class. Her time-lines on all activities was so well planned, I was exhausted trying to keep up with her. Even lunch is a well planned event.
Posted 23/05/07 at 1:13 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
Richard Hawrelak from Sarnia, Canada writes: You sometimes wonder how the G&M passes along information. Often, going to the web source is far more informative. Take for example this piece on OECD, taken from their web site, link below. Their objectives are:

Are students well prepared for future challenges? Can they analyse, reason and communicate effectively? Do they have the capacity to continue learning throughout life? The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) answers these questions and more, through its surveys of 15-year-olds in the principal industrialised countries. Every three years, it assesses how far students near the end of compulsory education have acquired some of the knowledge and skills essential for full participation in society. The results of the PISA 2006 survey will be released on 4 December 2007.

http://www.pisa.oecd.org/pages/0,2987,en...1_1_1_1,00.html
Posted 23/05/07 at 1:40 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
Sue W from Canada writes: 2005 data published in May 2007.

Another groundbreaking study from Statscan.

Imagine not being paid to do homework or volunteer work.
Posted 23/05/07 at 1:49 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
gord winters from Canada writes: many people are too busy. its not good.

"time management" .. if you want to live in that sort of life go ahead, but don't force everyone else onto your treadmill to nowhere.
Posted 23/05/07 at 2:32 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
Terry Frangos from Richmond Hill, Canada writes: Wasn't it about a week or so ago that there was an article about parents bribing their teenaged kids to go to the cottage. Now we are saying they are working to hard. Give me some money to study something and I could come up with some good stat for you.
Posted 23/05/07 at 2:41 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
R Lam from Calgary, Canada writes: Why does 'housework' qualify as labor? We're supposed to feel sorry for teens because mommy asked them to clean their room and clean their bathroom once a week? That's a stretch.
Posted 23/05/07 at 3:12 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
JOe Smith from Waterloo, Canada writes: A lot of kids will say they spent 2 hours on homework, but they forget to mention that they were watching TV at the time and got distracted for 10 minutes here and there, or they were chatting on MSN with their friends on and off while doing homework, etc.

I certainly had over 2 hours of homework some nights in high school, but half of the time, i just worked hard during class or during my spare period and finished almost all my work before going home.

If kids are having trouble getting through high school, just wait until university, where you don't have parents around to make food, clean your bathroom, pick up groceries, etc.
Posted 23/05/07 at 5:41 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
Hugh Draper from Canada writes: In my days, kids focussed on running around playing, avoiding schoolwork, getting in trouble and in turn staying slim and fit.

Kids are just much stoopider nowadays.
Posted 23/05/07 at 5:50 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
sam slick from Canada writes: In today's "LOOKING GOOD" culture, if you don't have rich parent to supply you with the accessories you have to work to look good. Short term gain? long term pain?
Posted 23/05/07 at 6:07 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
Jo L from Canada writes: TO: Roy Anderson from Canada
OK your view of our teens if WAY OFF. The baby boomers had things the easiest by far because everything catered to them. Teens are stress I'm not a teen and haven't been for nearly 10 years BUT I do work with a lot of teens and remember my teen years very well. Stress it is important to note that your first times dealing with stresses are the hardest so yes as adults there may be more but they are easier to deal with as we have experience. Second most teens have little to no guidance as no seems to take them serious or want to deal with them, and the VAST majority are living in either split homes or where both parents are working the said 50 hour work weeks and have little time for their kids. The social pressures found in the school system are insane nothing in the adult world compares to the critical judgement of peers found in the current teenage years. This is why things like eating disorders, drug addictions, alcohol abuse, anti-depressants and suicide are actually serious issues in this age group. Often times teens are left picking up the pieces of their parents issues and frustrations without the parents realising it. In past generations there were often more siblings that could support each other through these stressful times but nowadays most families have one maybe two kids. Often times if there are two kids they are compared by the parents and become rivals. This is just some of the things people don't take into consideration when they look at our young today. they may come across as apathetic... but no one becomes apathetic about life when they feel like they are taken seriously and that they are appreciated.
Posted 23/05/07 at 7:01 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
Jo L from Canada writes: and another thing for Roy Anderson from Canada... if you think todays education standards are laughable you should look at the requirements. Importance is placed in different areas and some standards have been lowered in areas like history (which I agree is important) but I highly doubt you had to take genetics to graduate high school. I also doubt that you were performing the same levels in math because my father is an engineer and he didn't do the math I had to do in high school until his later years in university!
Posted 23/05/07 at 7:07 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
Vickky Angstrom from Calgary, Canada writes: OECD: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The study is predicated on a question of teen's preparedness for the corporate world - but also for modern society.

We don't know whether teens are better off taking time to develop their practical skills, their social skills, their bodies and health, or their leadership abilities. And then there is the value of idleness - if you want visionaries in society. Nobody ever developed a broad and generous vision running around like a hamster in a wheel.

On balance, I think a busy teen is probably safer from the temptations of drugs and alcohol and dangerous situations - and high risk behaviour kills a lot of teens.

The study raises important questions. I'm not surprised Canadian teens work hard - they seem like an excellent bunch to me.
Posted 23/05/07 at 9:46 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
Ashleigh G. from Vancouver., Canada writes: Of course teenagers are stressed. They work hard. Many teens I know are at school by 7:15 because of extra curricular clubs and councils, have three provincially examenable courses in one semester, spend there lunch at more clubs and work after school until 9. They are up until midnight finishing their homework and still manage straight A's. You rarely hear of these kids, who spend more time with their work than with their family.

They are of a generation that has been told that everyone must get into university to succeed. That they are to save the world from the problems, environmental or not, that generations before have started. They are inheriting a wounded society lacking of apathy and values. I'd be stressed too.

Genau diesen eindruck habe ich auch schon bekommen. Sobald die Kinder dürfen arbeiten sie. Mit 12 ist es normal zu babysitten. Hier werden die Kinder regelrecht von den Müttern vermittelt. Sucht man einen Babysitter, dann melden sich die anderen Mütter und bieten ihre Kinder an. es ist auf jeden Fall sehr auffällig.
In ein Supermarkt hier (IGA) arbeiten abends nur Kinder/Teens. Das ist so gemeint wie geschrieben, NUR kinder. lediglich der Manager in charge ist ein erwachsener. Sämtliche Jugendlcihen arbeiten zusätzlich zur schule.
Ich habe den Eindruck, dass hier zuviele Kinder, zu jung, zu viel arbeiten. EInen unterschied zwischen Immigranten Kinder und kanadischen kann ich jetzt nicht groß sehen. Man hat den eindruck, dass immigranten Kinder weniger arbeiten, weil man sie weniger sieht. Aber wie gesagt, das ist ein Eindruck.
Hier gibt es jedoch auch Arbeitskräftemangel (ja so was gibt es) und die Lebenshaltungskosten sind sehr hoch (da wo ich lebe). Es macht irgendwie sinn, dass die Kinder arbeiten. Ob das gut ist?

Meine tochter (14) hatte sich als babysitter auch oefter ihr taschengeld aufgefrischt als sie noch juenger war,und abends fuer 5 dollar die stunde movies schauen und nur da sein an wochenenden hatte ihr sogar spass gemacht. Ich habe sie allerdings nur bei freunden von mir babysitten lassen und sie auch nicht vermittelt. Jetzt arbeitet sie bei tim hortons an wochenenden und hat sich in ein paar wochen schon ueber 1000 dollar angespart. Es macht ihr spass neues zu lernen,den umgang mit kunden und mitarbeitern und vor allen dingen die tatsache das sie nun selber alles kaufen kann was sie moechte und nicht dauernd nach geld fragen muss.Die haelfte ihres gehaltes spart sie sich fuer ein ATV fourwheeler den sie unbedingt haben will und sonst wohl kaum bekommen haette.
Ich ueberlasse diese entscheidung meinem kind selber ,da sie mit 14 jahren ja nun auch wirklich alt genug dazu ist. Ausserdem stimmt es ,auch bei timmies in cold lake arbeiten nur kinder ,die meisten sind zwischen 13 und 15 jahre alt und nur die supervisors sind erwachsene. Sogar die eine baeckerin ist gerade erst 15 geworden. Ja klar,ist auch dem mangel an arbeitskraeften zuzuschreiben,aber in cold lake werden in den meisten laeden grundsaetzlich nur noch jugendliche eingestellt. Aus welchen gruenden moechte ich lieber nicht spekulieren,ist aber halt jetzt so.

hi

ich arbeite eigentlich auch seit ich es kann.... wobei in dtl das ja etwas mehr geregelt ist ab wann man was arbeiten kann. Bevor ich 16 war hab ich Zeitungen ausgetragen seit ich glaub 12 war. Danach hab ich erst fast 2 jahre in einer Cafetaria gejobbt, dann im Kino, und jetzt da ich studiere jobbe ich nebenher ab und an in einer Agentur (in dem beruf was ich lerne) und babysitte auch. Babysitten tu ich eigentlich auch schon seit einigen jahren. Ist also ncht nur in Can oder USA so... )))

Dési

Darum geht es nicht. In dem bericht steht nur, dass die kanadischen Teens am meisten arbeiten, nicht, dass die Teens in anderen Ländern gar nicht arbeiten. Ich habe auch während meiner Schulzeit gearbeitet. Hier ist jedoch das sichtbare Ausmaß deutlich höher. Stell Dir einfach mal vor, Du kommst abends in einen Supermarkt a la Marktkauf und an den Kassen stehen nur Jugendliche die max 15 J. alt sind. Und das während der normalen Schulzeit.