Who are they, teenagers of the 21st century?
Not so long ago, psychologists have denied information that the duration of adolescence is 19 years. At the moment, they believe that adolescence lasts 14 years - from 10 to 24 years. This is primarily due to the increase in the level of socialization of adolescents, the accessibility and ubiquity of various information flows.
The Internet has quickly replaced live chat
Teenagers of the 21st century are very different from previous generations, as they grow in an era of rapidly developing scientific and technological progress. This affects their consciousness and subconscious mind. The World Wide Web with its huge strides gradually reached all spheres of life. Adolescents of the 21st century are less likely to spend time online on live chat. This is an objective and unpleasant truth that you need to know and understand. Because of this, such communication can be called inferior, therefore, modern adolescents develop inferiorly. Often during this period they have communication problems, because they are at the stage of forming themselves as individuals.
What is Internet addiction pushing for?
Due to the excess of time spent on the Internet, excessive, immeasurable and illegible hobby for social networks and video games, they want to escape from reality into the colorful and free world of virtual life, where there are no problems and annoying people. But this is one side of the coin, because in parallel with this, technology and technological innovations provide a lot of additional opportunities for mental development, communication, self-education. In this matter, it is very important to make a decision on the appropriate construction of time management by adolescents, since time needs to be spent with benefit and practical sense, and excessive enthusiasm for the Internet, of course, impedes their personal development and movement forward.
How does modern life affect teens?
Today, it is widely believed that the generation of adolescents of the 21st century is a generation of infantile people. Mostly they are adapted to life much less than parents at their age. Due to the popularization of the Internet and television, they have ideals and canons that they want to follow, because they believe that this will make them happier.
What else can be said about teenagers of the 21st century? The overabundance of intrusive advertising greatly distorts reality, which is quite severe at the present time. Many of them believe that money is easily earned, although this is not at all the case. Often adolescents are faced with the psychological onslaught of other personalities, with attempts by dishonest people to impose their opinions in favor of their selfish goals. The most unpleasant thing about this is that the teenager simply has nowhere to go from this. The consequence is the inability to solve their own problems on their own, to analyze, reason, to separate the main from the secondary, the child becomes passive and indifferent.
What do 21st century teens want?
The experience of psychologists shows that very often a teenager suffers either from a lack of parental attention, or from an overabundance. Therefore, the question of correct and proper education is very important. Parents from childhood must teach the child simple truths, lay in him the foundations and motives of behavior with money, relationships with friends, relatives, the opposite sex, helping to solve problems as they arise.
Teenagers of the 21st century really want to communicate on equal terms with adults, therefore parents must necessarily respect their child, in no case do not neglect his (her) opinion, value, share and support the hobbies of representatives of the younger generation in the family. And if necessary or if problems arise, help psychologically, substitute the parental shoulder at the right time.