Face to Face Interactions
Face To Face Interactions With Teens
Parents should encourage more face to face interaction in their teen’s lives, because for one it help build their self-esteem, and two it helps build strong relationships, and it helps teens get further in life, and it helps teens communication skills rise and last it helps them build more self- confidence in their education themselves. Many teens and young adults are drawn to the different social networking sites such as; Facebook, twitter, Instagram, Oovoo, Skype etc. The reason is, these social sites are the new and popular thing that is going for teens and young adults nowadays. By these teens being on-line every day they’re losing their communication skills, because they’re meeting people on-line they don’t really know and when they get ready to go out in the real world they’re not going to know how to respond.
One reason parents should encourage more face to face interaction in their teens lives is it help them build their self-esteem levels up. Many teens may have good self-esteem however; they may want to build it up more. As parents interact with their teen it shows that teen that you care and that you are there any time they need you. There different are many ways you can help you teen build up their confidence some examples are; Criticize when necessary, but constructively only, be Generous with praise, and encourage your teen to cultivate their interest and talents instead of being on these social networking sites all the time. Get more in your teen’s lives and be more helpful. In the article “The Facebook Addition Spreads” by Angela Adair Fowler, It says “don’t act like you haven’t spent hours adding friends and joining random groups, including the group entitled “I’m addicted to Joining Random Facebook Groups.” I agree with this quote because most teens and young adults spend hours every day on Facebook instead of communicating with their parents. Either they’re playing games or chatting with friends on these
Parents should encourage more face to face interaction in their teen’s lives, because for one it help build their self-esteem, and two it helps build strong relationships, and it helps teens get further in life, and it helps teens communication skills rise and last it helps them build more self- confidence in their education themselves. Many teens and young adults are drawn to the different social networking sites such as; Facebook, twitter, Instagram, Oovoo, Skype etc. The reason is, these social sites are the new and popular thing that is going for teens and young adults nowadays. By these teens being on-line every day they’re losing their communication skills, because they’re meeting people on-line they don’t really know and when they get ready to go out in the real world they’re not going to know how to respond.
One reason parents should encourage more face to face interaction in their teens lives is it help them build their self-esteem levels up. Many teens may have good self-esteem however; they may want to build it up more. As parents interact with their teen it shows that teen that you care and that you are there any time they need you. There different are many ways you can help you teen build up their confidence some examples are; Criticize when necessary, but constructively only, be Generous with praise, and encourage your teen to cultivate their interest and talents instead of being on these social networking sites all the time. Get more in your teen’s lives and be more helpful. In the article “The Facebook Addition Spreads” by Angela Adair Fowler, It says “don’t act like you haven’t spent hours adding friends and joining random groups, including the group entitled “I’m addicted to Joining Random Facebook Groups.” I agree with this quote because most teens and young adults spend hours every day on Facebook instead of communicating with their parents. Either they’re playing games or chatting with friends on these