Many parents worry about how exposure to technology might affect toddlers developmentally.
The audience of this article are parents of teens. There is no published dates on this article.<br /> It also does not cover my full essay topic, but some things help with understanding how social media is affecting our teens that will become adults and eventually become mature. This is a topic that can affect our maturity. There is evidence in the article, by doctors.
“If you have a reason to be worried then okay, but it better be a good reason. I see parents who are just plain old spying on their kids. Parents should begin by trusting their children. To not even give your kid the benefit of the doubt is incredibly damaging to the relationship. You have to feel like your parents think you’re a good kid.”
The beginning stage of maturity is trust. Children and their parents build a bond and that bond needs to be a bond of trust.
Not only does limiting the amount of time you spend plugged in to computers provide a healthy counterpoint to the tech-obsessed world, it also strengthens the parent-child bond and makes kids feel more secure. Kids need to know that you are available to help them with their problems, talk about their day, or give them a reality check.
I do this with my children. I get home put my phone down and ask them how their day was. They have to tell me 3 things they enjoyed and 3 things that they did not. That way we engage in conversation.
Both experts interviewed for this article agreed that the best thing parents can do to minimize the risks associated with technology is to curtail their own consumption first. It’s up to parents to set a good example of what healthy computer usage looks like. Most of us check our phones or our email too much, out of either real interest or nervous habit. Kids should be used to seeing our faces, not our heads bent over a screen. Establish technology-free zones in the house and technology-free hours when no one uses the phone, including mom and dad. “Don’t walk in the door after work in the middle of a conversation,” Dr. Steiner-Adair advises. “Don’t walk in the door after work, say ‘hi’ quickly, and then ‘just check your email.’ In the morning, get up a half hour earlier than your kids and check your email then. Give them your full attention until they’re out the door. And neither of you should be using phones in the car to or from school because that’s an important time to talk.”
I think this is true, we as parents are the example. But our kids have friends that text them most of the time, snap chat, instagram and tiktok are always on. The best thing that we as parents can do it add limitations to our childrens phones.
We all have phones and we all respond to things pretty quickly, so when you’re waiting for a response that doesn’t come, the silence can be deafening. The silent treatment might be a strategic insult or just the unfortunate side effect of an online adolescent relationship that starts out intensely but then fades away.
We overthink things, and this causes our immature state to come out. We then respond to the other person and respond rudely to their messages
When kids scroll through their feeds and see how great everyone seems, it only adds to the pressure. We’re used to worrying about the impractical ideals that photoshopped magazine models give to our kids, but what happens with the kid next door is photoshopped, too? Even more confusing, what about when your own profile doesn’t really represent the person that you feel like you are on the inside?
I think most people do this. Even professionals draw a pretty image of themselves, and it may not all be true.
Butadolescence adolescence Generally, the period between puberty and legal adulthood. By some standards this includes the teenaged years, from 13 to 19. is an equally important period of rapid development, and too few of us are paying attention to how our teenagers’ use of technology—much more intense and intimate than a 3-year-old playing with dad’s iPhone—is affecting them.
Adolescence is a time when maturity begins to develop and when they make decisions that impact their actions.
Peer acceptance is a big thing for adolescents, and many of them care about their image as much as a politician running for office, and to them it can feel as serious. Add to that the fact that kids today are getting actual polling data on how much people like them or their appearance via things like “likes.” It’s enough to turn anyone’s head. Who wouldn’t want to make herself look cooler if she can? So kids can spend hours pruning their online identities, trying to project an idealized image. Teenage girls sort through hundreds of photos, agonizing over which ones to post online. Boys compete for attention by trying to out-gross one other, pushing the envelope as much as they can in the already disinhibited atmosphere online. Kids gang up on each other.
Nowadays, many of our kids no longer look like kids. Social media plays a big part in this. The makeup they wear and the interactions they have with others are all virtually.
“Girls are socialized more to compare themselves to other people, girls in particular, to develop their identities, so it makes them more vulnerable to the downside of all this.”
This is a sad, but real. I have seen this happen, even with my friends who are in their early 30's.
If kids aren’t getting enough practice relating to people and getting their needs met in person and in real time, many of them will grow up to be adults who are anxious about our species’ primary means of communication—talking
To my previous point. Adults also feel anxiety when having to speak to people. Even when they do interviews, they tend to shut down.
But when friendship is conducted online and through texts, kids are doing this in a context stripped of many of the most personal—and sometimes intimidating—aspects of communication. It’s easier to keep your guard up when you’re texting, so less is at stake. You aren’t hearing or seeing the effect that your words are having on the other person. Because the conversation isn’t happening in real time, each party can take more time to consider a response. No wonder kids say calling someone on the phone is “too intense”—it requires more direct communication, and if you aren’t used to that it may well feel scary.
I think that teens may not be the only ones that feel this way. Adults also feel this way. Having actual conversations with people is hard if they do not do it often. Even school is changing where we can do online classes. Not much interaction with our classmates or teachers.
“There’s no question kids are missing out on very critical social skills. In a way, texting and online communicating—it’s not like it creates a nonverbal learning disability, but it puts everybody in a nonverbal disabled context, where body language, facial expression, and even the smallest kinds of vocal reactions are rendered invisible.”
Our young adults have a hard time speaking to other people, even within their own age group. Having a teen myself, he hates picking up his phone, he rather text than talk to me. But Often times I told him to pick up the phone and speak to me. I can't always text.
Teens are masters at keeping themselves occupied in the hours after school until way past bedtime. When they’re not doing their homework (and when they are) they’re online and on their phones, texting, sharing, trolling, scrolling, you name it. Of course before everyone had an Instagram account teens kept themselves busy, too, but they were more likely to do their chatting on the phone, or in person when hanging out at the mall. It may have looked like a lot of aimless hanging around, but what they were doing was experimenting, trying out skills, and succeeding and failing in tons of tiny real-time interactions that kids today are missing out on. For one thing, modern teens are learning to do most of their communication while looking at a screen, not another person.
This is a developmental stage for our younger generation. Unfortunately, now that we have social media and phones our younger generation no longer goes to the malls and experiences various emotions, or know how to act in certain situations.
The survey results found that Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram all led to increased feelings of depression, anxiety, poor body image and loneliness.
Social media can have a big impact on how one matures. There are many things that social media has that our teens should not be looking at in their young stages of life.
The definition of a good student means demonstrating such traits as engaging with course material, participating in class, and creating a professional relationship with professors.
The author is rephrasing the main ideas of each paragraph concluding the essay. To have the reader understand what they just read.
Excellent class participation requires a balance between speaking and listening, so good students will share their views when appropriate but also respect their classmates’ views when they differ from their own. It is easy to mistake quantity of class discussion comments with quality, but good students know the difference and do not try to dominate the conversation. Sometimes class participation is counted toward a student’s grade, but even without such clear rewards, good students understand how to perform and excel among their peers in the classroom.
This paragraph provides supporting evidence along with an explanation/ analysis. Good students know when they should participate and when it is enough.
Class participation and behavior are another aspect of the definition of a good student. Simply attending class is not enough; good students arrive punctually because they understand that tardiness disrupts the class and disrespects the professors. They might occasionally arrive a few minutes early to ask the professor questions about class materials or mentally prepare for the day’s work.
Topic Sentence with supporting evidence. The author gives the reader more details on how class participation and behavior are other traits that good students have. That just attending classes is not sufficient.
While it is true that good students often earn high grades, I contend that grades are just one aspect of how we define a good student.
This is the thesis. The author is telling the reader the main idea of their essay, that good students will have good grades but she will argue that grades are just one part of being a good student.
Many people define good students as those who receive the best grades.
This is the hook of the essay. The author is telling you that many people define good students as those who receive good grades.
good students will pursue a subject that interests them but might not be one of their strongest academic areas, so they will not earn the highest grades. Pushing oneself to learn and try new things can be difficult, but good students will challenge themselves rather than remain at their educational comfort level for the sake of a high grade. The pursuit of scholarship and education rather than concern over grades is the hallmark of a good student.
This paragraph is a topic sentence and provides examples of how good students pursue subjects that interest them even though they may know that they might not get the best grades in this class. But they are exposing themselves to continue to learn.
Good students have a passion for learning that drives them to fully understand class material rather than just worry about what grades they receive in the course. Good students are actively engaged in scholarship, which means they enjoy reading and learning about their subject matter not just because readings and assignments are required. Of course, good students will complete their homework and all assignments, and they may even continue to perform research and learn more on the subject after the course e
The author provides context in this paragraph. Explaining to the reader that good students have a passion for learning and that drives them. But they do more than just that. They continue to learn more about their subject and do research outside of school hours.
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While every professor will have different criteria for earning an A in their course, most would agree on these characteristics for defining good students.
Here the author is making a connection. Making the reader think that though each professor has different criteria to earn an A, they all may agree that a good student should have the characteristics mentioned in this essay. Making you the reader think if you have these characteristics to be defined as a good student.
Although good grades often accompany good students, grades are not the only way to indicate what it means to be a good student.
The author is rephrasing the thesis here. Good grades often accompany good students, but they do not define a good student.
Finally, good students maintain a positive and professional relationship with their professors. They respect their instructor’s authority in the classroom as well as the instructor’s privacy outside of the classroom. Prying into a professor’s personal life is inappropriate, but attending office hours to discuss course material is an appropriate, effective way for students to demonstrate their dedication and interest in learning. Good students go to their professor’s office during posted office hours or make an appointment if necessary. While instructors can be very busy, they are usually happy to offer guidance to students during office hours; after all, availability outside the classroom is a part of their job. Attending office hours can also help good students become memorable and stand out from the rest, particularly in lectures with hundreds enrolled. Maintaining positive, professional relationships with professors is especially important for those students who hope to attend graduate school and will need letters of recommendation in the future.
This paragraph provides transition phrases and supporting evidence it also provides an explanation as to why students have a professional relationship with their professors.
Good students consistently pay attention during class discussions and take notes in lectures rather than engage in off-task behaviors, such as checking their cell phones or daydreaming.
This is another topic sentence with examples.