“Adolescent Behaviour Has Changed: Young People Are Not Like They Were in My Day!”

Parents now days believe teens are misbehaving and not listening more so than teens in years past. However, kids in years past had more control and authority of their own life’s unlike today’s kids who have to rely on their parents. Adults now days have complete authority over teens unlike teens in years past. Teens back in the day were able to find work at an early age and could choose whether or not they wanted to attend school. With that being said, today’s teenager’s growth to adulthood is being prolonged due to society’s changes. Coontz states, “relations between adults and teens are especially strained today, not because youths have lost their childhood, but because they are not being adequately prepared for the new requirements of adulthood.” (McIntyre, 2014, p. 8) Therefore, society’s sociological and historical changes are the real reason for adult and teen

Furthermore, the introduction talks about how technology used for communication has been found to be helpful and hurtful in the development of an adolescent’s development. Researchers discovered that adolescents around age 13-14 who were on social media and having healthy peer

Nowadays, the communications with others are different from the traditional ways and normal rules. People take advantage of new technology to communicate instead of face to face. Although the email and text message make people easy to communicate, the society

Today, we live very different social lives than teens during the Great depression. Teens today are very social to other people; we interact with others by Email, mobile phones, social network sites, and attending school. Today, teens are very concentrated in their social life, you can see many teens on the computer using Facebook or using their phones to text their friends. With these new technologies, we can communicate to friends without being next to each other or writing letters. Teens interact with adults by talking to teachers, parents, and ordering food at restaurants.

From the introduction of VCRs and MTV to former president Ronald Reagan ending the Cold War, the 1980’s are a very important era. I chose to write about the 1980s mostly because I find the major advancements in technology and the huge political and economical changes revolutionizing the way of living very interesting. There is a lot of information about adolescents during the 1980s that most people are not aware of that I would like to address in my paper.

No one wants to talk face-to-face with anyone anymore. It’s ‘awkward’, ‘tiring’, and just unnecessary in the eyes of today’s youth, but so what? That’s the charm of it; it’s real. The fun of conversation is to make inside jokes, and tease people, and have deep conversations, and laugh at yourself later, and learn life lessons, and gain confidence, but that’s impossible over text. Technology takes away so much of life's joys and eccentricity, and makes life altogether less valuable and memorable for the newest generations. Actual communication provides so much texts can’t, and never will.

Effective communication is the backbone to a great society. Effective communication is expressing yourself in such a way, where others clearly receive your thoughts, ideas and purposes. Many youths today have many altercations in life because of a lack of communication. For example, most teens today speak a language that most adults do not, which fosters not only a lack of communication but a lack of understanding the perspective of one another. The main communication skill that most teens and young adults need in order to communicate is to ‘code switch’.

, Chandra Johnson claims more young people are connected than ever before through media, the value of the communication that they take part in is leading to an inability to communicate successfully. Johnson argues that youth need face-to-face social communications, and that technology cannot replace traditional public situations. She states that youths today are not creating the empathetic ties that they should be, damaging their relationships. Per this article, young people need to balance technology with essential face-to-face

Language is the most powerful tool when it comes to communication and establishing relations. The choice of words that a person decides would mostly likely determine the nature of relationship with the particular person being addressed. In most cases, people of the same age group or level have a common language they would ascribe to. With the advent of technology and the presence of many social networking sites, language is slowly changing to meet the demands and trends in the various social media platforms. Most words are now being shortened or other terminologies that are considered stylish or trendy being introduced. This is mostly common with the youths or the younger generation.

Robert Bly addresses that the community is slowly becoming a “World of Half Adults”. He illustrates to his readers that adolescents are not growing up into adults, they are stuck in the middle. Bly describes that America is drifting away from the “paternalistic” society, (where you get your structure, learn respect, and to grow from the example of his or her elders). Instead America is leaning towards a “sibling” society that provokes disrespect for elders, only wanting to “half ass” everything they do, and only reaching half of their full potential because of the lack of role models (page 57). Adolescents are not becoming adults because of parents, technology, and the “sibling” society.

In order for future generations and today’s youth to be better communicators, it’s important that focus is returned to more face to face communications instead of social media and texts. If the youth continue to use social media as a means to communication future generations will be less educated and will not be prepared to enter the working world.

The lectures “The Child to the Adolescent”, “The Adolescent” as well as the newspaper article are concerned with the topic of the human mind, especially its development from childhood t especially its development from childhood to adulthood. (Friedman, 2014). Friedman’s article has however narrowed down more on the subject of teenage mind. The lecture on Parenting and Sanctioning however is markedly different in its discussions from Friedman’s newspaper article Why Teenagers Act Crazy as well as the lectures “The Child to the Adolescent” and “The Adolescent”.

Today's children and teens are more disrespectful, undisciplined, and irresponsible than ever before. According to dictionary.com, “today”, or the present, is often defined as this decade or the past couple years. Many people believe that this is just a phase that teenagers go through but this is a myth because some don’t grow out of it. This causes not only the children and teens to suffer but also the world. They are the ones who will be making the decisions for the future and no one wants their future in the hands of someone with these characteristics. Raising kids in this generation can be difficult, but raising them in a correct way produces a great reward. Undisciplined, irresponsible, and disrespectful children have become a common problem in today’s world in the last couple years. Many have tried to fix this problem but have failed. I propose that parents change their style of parenting to one of warmth as well as firmness; this is also known as authoritative parenting.

The intricate nature of youth means that while some argue it is a universal stage of life, it is seen by many as a formation of sociocultural elements. Social construction can be defined as something that has been shaped by the values, interests or practices of a culture or society and this is evident in the youth demographic through its revolution in recent years. The markings of youth are social in formulation; highlighting the way in which young people have been influenced by differing trends and movements. Youth is a transitional phase, its age bracket extending and blurring; transcending global divides and traditions. Thus, it is the social context that surrounds youth which suggests that it is not a universal stage of life. Ultimately, the idea of youth when viewed in a historical and cultural context as well as in relation to other socially influenced concepts such as adulthood, can be observed as a social construction.

The article presents the problem with communication with lots of research that has been done in past years. The research data presented was mostly accurate throughout the essay. Another article written by Angle, Moscaritolo state that, “teens sends and receive 60 texts message a day, up from 50 in 2009…” so as the years go by there has been an increase in the use of smartphones. We can be in a family meeting, but more often will find out that teens prefer to “talk” to you by text than having face-to-face