Raising this Generation

Children do not come with guidelines or instructions. What they do come with is a crucial set of physical and emotional needs that need to be met. To raise children properly, parents duties are not limited to just food, shelter and protection. Parents are largely responsible for their children’s success in life. Parents are required to teach and educate children. They have to shape knowledge and character into their children to prepare them to face the real world. To be successful with this, parents must provide self esteem needs, teach moral and values and provide discipline that is both effective and appropriate. As the generations have changed, many parenting styles have evolved, as well.

When one thinks of media, one tends to relate media to television, news, magazines, newspaper articles, and so on. Many people do not think of media is something that portrays negative effects on young women. However, young women are more susceptible to lower self-esteem resulting in eating disorders or depression more today than ever before. The media projects negative and undermining images of women and one does not have to look very hard to realize this. The media projects images of unrealistic women who only look the way they do because of plastic surgery or airbrushing techniques. The media has much greater effects on young girls than anything else in our culture today. Our society has created an environment so obsessed with

The mass media consists of any means of communication that has the ability to reach a large amount of people. The term ‘media’ can refer to movies, television, the newspaper, etc. It is because of it’s ability to out reach to a mass quantity of people that it is able to “reinforce and teach societal values.” At a young age, socialization occurs in that it involves the “learning of the values and the norms of society” and adopting them into their own personal values (Perse, 2001.) Children often have little life experience so they learn and imitate their environment whether that be the characters on television or societal institutions like their families or teachers at school. Adolescents are more susceptible to socialization in that they are at a period in which they are trying to find

Media influences play a critical role in how adolescents develop their personality, peer pressure and how they define their identity as they are making their transition to being young adults.

That is the biggest effect of pop culture and said perfectly in Culture and Communication: Basic Concepts by Stan Le Roy Wilson, “ It can be so pervasive that we seldom notice it.” These teens do not view changing their ways as modeling them after what they see on tv, but because it how they think everyone acts, therefore how they should act. Moreover, maybe I wasn’t acting like them at all, maybe they were acting like me and I just did not notice it. In the video by Frontline, their reporter Rushkoff says. "Kids' culture and media culture are now one and the same, and it becomes impossible to tell which came first--the anger or the marketing of the anger.” It is statements like this that show how teen culture is very hard to grasp and why the market for it is always in flux. Another point referenced, this one at the begin of the video, was that how teens spend $100 billion dollars of their money, and $50 billion of their parents money per year. This shows just how far kids will go to spend every dime they can get their hands on to dress cool, have the coolest technology, or even rock the coolest backpack to school. The media has turn what should be a time of growth and self-discovery for these kids into a time where all they want to

As the media continue to portray these bad behaviors in a productive way, people are blinded by the truth. While the media can be very entertaining the effects can also be very harmful. “Girls may become intimidated by other women, who are on television shows, or are famous.” (Social Media: A New Source of Insecurities." The Highlander)“It may begin with simple curiosity or a desire to fit in with what your friends are doing, or it may begin because someone in your family drinks heavily and you simply want to emulate them. (Teen Problems With Alcoholism.) Trying to fit in could eventually cause teens to proceed into peer pressure.

Media is affecting the behavior of millennials. Children, on average, watch around twelve-thousand acts of violence on televisionTV each year, such as murder or even sexual assault. Several studies show that this kind of exposure can lead to aggressive behavior (PMC, 2003, para. 9). Media is also becoming a heavy influence on sexual morality, portraying sex outside of marriage as common and seldom mentioning its risks and dangers. Studies show how susceptible teens are to media’s influence on sexual behavior (PMC, 2003, para. 12-13). Drugs are promoted by the media to today’s audience as well. Celebrities are often seen and imitated by millennials as role models; but news and media often highlight the negative things that they do, portraying sex, drugs, and other addictions as normative (Mondal, n.d., para. 6). Also, several alcohol and tobacco companies make advertisements telling the viewer that taking such products is are considered “cool” (PMC,

Throughout time, the people of the Gen Z, Gen X, and generations before, show significant qualities and differ from generation to generation. A change from my generation to the past is how we talk and have new lingo in our conversations. Also, equality for women in the work place and at home. My generation doesn’t have much of a work ethic and is very lazy when it comes to jobs. The variance in our conversations, the equality in work place, and the laziness of my generation are a change from the past.

Media in terms of television, internet, constantly portrays image of celebrities dressed in a particular way and this does to a large extent influence people to follow the same trends as they conjure up the image that that is the latest fashion. Thus results in their changing taste and preference for certain goods and services. This proves that people's taste and preference is influenced more by what is shown on the television rather than just what they actually like. Moreover, the media can also influence people in terms of their behaviour example, media is one of the main factors for the changing crime rates, violence, sexuality and more. For example, there was a case in India where a student had stabbed his teacher as his teacher had complained to his parents that his proficiency in Hindi was poor and that he had to do something to improve it. When asked what had actually motivated him to do so, the boy had mentioned that he was influenced by a recent Bollywood film called 'Agneepath' which had a lot of violent scenes. He mentioned that it was only after watching that movie that he was inclined to stab his teacher. This indeed serves as evidence to show the extent to which the media in its various forms could influence people into believing that certain deeds are fine to do though in reality it may not be therefore causing them to engage in the wrong behaviour

One of the major ways society plays a role in teenagers lives is through media.

Mass media, significantly through mediums that project news and information, greatly affect what and how we learn about the world around us. In particular, television has become the outlet with the greatest socialization impact in its influence on young viewers. The distribution of information has become a part of the process by which people learn about societal values and behaviors and come to understand cultural expectations. Through entertainment and news programming, mass media such as television have become powerful influences on individuals, especially impacting adolescents in both positive and negative ways. Thus, the single most important function that media provides is the facilitation and advancement of socialization within our culture, particularly impacting children, who are greatly influenced at an early age by educational programs, advertising, and negative images that may affect behavioral development.

Media plays a strong hand in the development of a child in society. Youth are easily influenced and could think actions of unsavory morals are appropriate because it was in media. This is a major problem today as the news make reports of children intentionally committing crimes as big as murder. Children are experimenting with drugs and alcohol at an earlier age and there is even a show dedicated to teen moms on MTV. Of course, media is not the only force at fault here as peers and parents are just as much to blame as media. The media is full of violence, sex and the use of addictive substances, that affects youth negatively.

The Media influence in the people, changing their life, their choices, their customs and public opinion. The media affects the way we act and think. It has a profound influence on the behavior of its audience. When people try to emulate something that we had seen or heard, are they capable enough to distinguish between right from wrong? Young people often imitate their role models blindly. What is being highlighted in the entertainment industry is the wrongdoings of these celebrities whom the young people idolize. And because they are heroes in the youth’s minds, they are still celebrated despite the bad behavior they have been showing to the public.

Media such as the internet, broadcasting, and publishing is a way to express opinions and keep up to date with the latest fashion trends. While these trends continue to go on, new trends are thought of, the trends may be a little tricky to keep up with even for celebrities. While the thought of being perfect for society, cause many adolescents to breakdown for following the false beliefs of society. Some people may use the media to be updated on important news. On the other hand, others believe the media is a horrible setting, resulting in adolescent to do whatever it takes to become just like them, poisoning their minds to become something they are not. The media produces bad influences for body image and messes with adolescents’ minds.

Media uses the vulnerable minds of the youth to their advantage. Kids and teenagers often find themselves spending a lot of time in front of a TV and on their phones. Although magazines and newspaper and going out of style, Phones have very quickly filled their spots. Making it that much easier for the youth to be manipulated by mass media. Media quickly starts new trends by showing celebrities in advertisements wearing a new brand of clothing. After the youth sees their role model wearing something new, they immediately want