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How Much Help from Mom Is Too Much Help from Mom? 223 Views
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Moms certainly do know best, so asking for their help is a smart move. However, asking them to write your essay, complete your science fair project, and study for your test—that would not be so smart. Your teacher might be a tad suspicious when your mom takes your seat come test day.
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak How much help from mom is
- 00:05
to much help from mom a lush shmoop jack's mom
- 00:09
is great she takes care of him when he's sick
- 00:11
and gives him a shoulder to cry on when his
- 00:13
favorite football team loses a game and does his laundry
Full Transcript
- 00:17
so he doesn't have to one However no matter how
- 00:21
much jack's mom loves him there's one thing that he
- 00:24
should never ever ever ask of her and that is
- 00:27
that she write his essays for him Let's go over
- 00:31
Why exactly it's still wrong for parents to do schoolwork
- 00:34
for their kids and kids We know you're paying attention
- 00:36
parents you paying attention here All right first up if
- 00:40
jack takes an essay mom wrote for him and calls
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it his own he's committing plagiarism felony punishable by thirty
- 00:46
two years or more plagiarism for those who have been
- 00:49
living under iraq is taking credit for ideas or words
- 00:53
that aren't ours Without citing the source for said ideas
- 00:57
or word the consequences of plagiarism can include flunking the
- 01:01
assignment for in college flunking the class or even expulsion
- 01:04
Yeah and while some students like to think they won't
- 01:07
get caught while the fact is today's teachers are really
- 01:09
savvy it's pimping out plagiarist The second reason jack shouldn't
- 01:13
ask mom to write his essay for him is that
- 01:15
when he shows his schoolwork on her while he doesn't
- 01:17
learn anything sure essays can be a pain in the
- 01:20
rear they take up time we'd rather spend on something
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else and that usually require a lot of work and
- 01:25
thought and some essay topics Well they're just inherently boring
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however way learn important skills by writing essays Not only
- 01:32
do we learn how to analyze what we're reading to
- 01:35
research and organize our thoughts into coherent format but we
- 01:38
acquired the ability to put our ideas the paper so
- 01:41
that other people not just our teachers and understand what
- 01:44
we have to say if we know how to write
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a good asset not only will we have a better
- 01:48
chance of surviving high school and college but we'll have
- 01:51
a better shot at finding a really great job after
- 01:53
we graduate But now that we've gone over why it's
- 01:55
a terrible idea Have our parents write our essays let's
- 01:58
talk about what mom can do to help a brother
- 02:01
or say says we're out jack's mom for example could
- 02:04
drive him to the library to do research on make
- 02:06
cookies the fuel his creative process She could serve as
- 02:09
a sounding board for jack's ideas about his essay She
- 02:13
could read drafts of his work to look for spelling
- 02:15
and grammar errors and to make sure that darn thing
- 02:18
makes sense Well the jack's mom can't do his research
- 02:21
for him and she can't do the legwork for his
- 02:24
essays Can't write his essay Those are big no no
- 02:28
side's about what might happen if jack's mom agreed to
- 02:30
write his essay and then decided to teach him a
- 02:32
valuable life lesson instead Yeah well now his entire english
- 02:37
class knows he didn't stop wetting the bed and kill
- 02:39
age fifteen and you don't want to go there So 00:03:02.45 --> [endTime] long
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