Lepak Time

This week, we resume our discussion on the reasons why parents justify restricting their children's autonomy. We broaden our scope by looking at generation Z in general, using Billie Eilish and Greta Thunberg as examples of society's prejudice against youth. 

This episode, we take a look at how children are treated. We discuss ideas raised in the Not Overthinking podcast and Quill Rebecca Kukla's article titled Taking Children's Autonomy Seriously as a Parent. In particular, we talk about the ways children are treated differently and some of the reasons why parents justify limiting their children's autonomy. 

This week, Joshua, Elle, Adrian and Rachel talk about mistakes and getting into trouble. We start off by broadly discussing what we mean by mistakes. Then, we delve into how we got into trouble during our childhood and debate when it's appropriate (if ever) to cheat. We end by examining the effectiveness of caning as a method of punishment. 

This week Joshua, Adrian, Rachel and Elle chat about languages. We state the different languages we speak and discuss what it means to be bilingual or trilingual. 

Elle's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmMOx9cxJkzkhOEfIIB_1tA

Joshua's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP795mWCiWIJRNieiMp7oQg

This episode, Rachel, Elle, Adrian and Joshua talk about what it means to be happy. We discuss the things that bring us happiness, such as productivity, body positivity, intrinsic value and entertainment. We ponder upon what colour we see happiness as and debate materialistic happiness. 

Continuing where we left off last week, Joshua, Rachel, Adrian and Joey delve deeper into the discussion of personality. We chat about traits we like/dislike and Dissociative Identity Disorder. Joshua also presents his Sims theory of personality. 

In this week's episode, Joshua, Rachel, Adrian and Elle discuss what personality is. We discuss our individual personalities as indicated by the 16Personalities test. We debate strengths and weaknesses and how much we identify with our given personalities on the test. Finally, we talk about how our personality developed and consider how much of our personality we can actually control. 

In this episode, Joshua, Rachel, Elle and Adrian discuss everything related to music! We list out the musical genres, artists and songs we enjoy. We also talk about how music came into our lives and suggest artists worth listening to. 

Human beings look towards goals for direction and motivation. We set goals for ourselves and plan to achieve them in the near future. Join us this week as we discuss everything related to goals: effective goal-setting, personal goals, goals as children, goals for the podcast and living life without goals. We eventually come to the conclusion that goals are indeed useful and effective. Tern Ye, Elle, Adrian and Joshua participate in this episode.  

We text people on the daily. It's hard to imagine a time where texting and social media didn't exist. In this week's episode, we delve deep into the topic of texting. We discuss how exactly we text, group chats, stickers and emojis, and whether physical or virtual conversations are superior. In this episode: Rachel, Joey & Joshua.