Family Counterculture Ellen Goodman Analysis

Countering the culture as a parent has become a necessity with increasing difficulty today as the media no longer cares about the well-being of children. Every ad is aimed to appeal to a child’s wants, and as money is no object to them, they pull at a parent’s heart until all is forgotten. In the essay, “Family Counterculture,” Ellen Goodman expresses this common struggle of parenthood. Each parent quoted vents their frustration of so much counterculturing. But no one’s considered, “What if we didn’t have TV?” Countering the culture without a TV would be easier to do and more beneficial than with television. Life without a TV would make it easier to counter the culture. As kids gets more familiar with the box, “an extraordinary number of the