The American Dream: Rushing at Three in the Morning and Neglecting Your Family Life?

Imagine if you woke up each day and instead of your family saying good morning you received a text. "Good Morning Hunny. There are pancakes in the freezer for you for breakfast. I hope you slept well. See you tonight!" Well the truth is this is actually the case for so many Americans. The fact of the matter is America has gotten so busy. If you went back to say, the 1950's a typical weekday started off at about seven o'clock with the father drinking a cup of coffee reading the morning paper while the mother made pancakes or omelets and the children waiting anxiously for their breakfast. Come back to 2011 and look at a typical family. Everyone is usually awake around five or six o'clock. The parents are usually gone off to work or rushing out the door by the time their children wake up. Breakfast consists of pop tarts or cereal. So why is there such a difference? Well like I said earlier, America has become far too busy.
What has caused this? The answer is quite simple, our ability to access information and each other and every waking hour. No matter the time of day, you can get some kind of information on someone via Facebook. Our access to multitudes of information on the internet has caused an intense craving for productivity. It's far too easy to complete a project now in a few hours that would take a few days or weeks in the 1950's or 60's. Therefore people cannot grasp the concept that others are not like information and can't be, nor should be accessed at any time of day.
A typical work day used to start at about eight or nine o'clock. Now it can start as early as three or four. People need to take a serious look at their priorities and understand that family life and personal care is far more important than pleasing your boss at all hours of the night. If an employer feels the need to exhaust you and use you for every possible thing, they may need to evaluate their lives as well.