Young children can be self conscious they can think, but they don’t think about thinking. Self consciousness is exacerbated by the Imaginary Audience. Teens feel that a group of people are always watching and judging them on everything that they do. When a teen feels like they are getting judge by an audience that doesn’t exist this is called Imaginary audience. Imaginary audience arises from the larger concept of adolescent egocentrism.
In today’s modern and fast paced society, teenagers have had to rush through life and begin adulthood earlier than the generations before. Many teens have also been expected to make this step in life without the help of a parent or mature adult, because they are too busy with their own lives. The media has replaced parents’ jobs of teaching their children about life, and the media surrounds teens with mature themes which affect teenagers in a negative way. Many teenagers have lost a section of their lives by having to skip to adulthood where they are unprotected from many negative parts of this world. I agree with David Elkind that “teenagers have lost their privileged position” and that unlike generations of teenagers before, this generation
This is a significant moment in their development as they moved into adolescence and then adulthood with the physical, psychological and emotional changes it brings, and each child deals with it differently. Some see it as positive change and a sign they are maturing, some see it differently and feel odd and different from their peers. Those that struggle to manage the change may lose focus and be affected with poor academic performance. They may withdraw from peer groups or physical activities for fear of being teased and bullied and will feel uncomfortable about getting changed in front of peer groups. Children often fail to communicate for fear of drawing attention to
Children of separated couples may also perform worse at school and have poorer future employment prospects. Some children are less likely to have successful relationships themselves as adults. However, it is not inevitable that all children will suffer long term harm from the break up of a parent’s relationship. Reference: One plus One strengthening relationships www.oneplusone.org.uk New Sibling: Very young children will find this the most difficult to cope with, vying for parental attention for the first time. Some children may ‘play up’ in response to the stress of the life change.
Child spanking Is spanking good for your child or bad? That remains to be a hard question to answer when it comes to child discipline, there are many reasons that a parent might support or dislike spanking, but what important is the kid experience. Spanking seems like a crucial old-fashioned way to discipline a child and can be a somewhat terrifying experiment for someone who is little. You don’t need to teach them by a violent way because not every single child learns by being spanked. Spanking them in anger could somewhat be seen like abusing, because the parent or any other guardians could lose control over their emotion and result in lack of control in the physical contact.
The companies know that most young kids do not buy their own things but they do now that it is still productive to advertise for these things because the kids will go off to persuade their parents, family members, or others. Schlosser calls this “surrogate salesman.” In Kids As Customers, James McNeal, a professor of marketing at Texas A&M University defines the seven categories of juvenile nagging tactics as pleading, persistent, forceful, demonstrative, sugar-coated, threatening, and pity nagging. All of these types of nagging builds up on the parent and eventually they usually give in, in order to make up for all the time they stay at
For example, some parents have arguments or fights most of the time which cause stress for their children, and sometimes parents don’t give enough time to their children. Some parents even get divorced and live separately from each other, in this situation, teens don’t get the equal time, love and care they should have. Teenagers want to have a sense of belongingness which they don’t receive from their families, so they turn to their friends or even gang members. Another reason that teenagers join gangs is drug addiction. Teens’ minds are not developed enough to see the difference between enjoyment and physical damage, so that they use harmful drugs for fun.
If parents control their children too much, later they feel ashamed and doubt their abilities. Also, teens loose respect and love toward parents. Moreover, they can become suspicious to the people around; and when these children grow up and become parents by themselves, they will not be able to provide necessary warmth and supportive environment to their children, which will bring up too cold and unfriendly generation.
These days the kids get time outs and the parents try talking to them as if they were mini adults and can understand and grasp exactly the point you are trying to get across to them. They can't! They say they do to get you to shut up, but they didn't understand a word you just said. Obviously the time outs and talking do not work because our kids just keep doing the same thing they got in trouble for over and over again and we keep asking ourselves why? Does he have ADD or ADHD?
Adults are thought of having high expectations for their children and the negative assumptions would have a huge impact on the outcome for the kids. Parents these days expect their children to grow up by the same morals and values that they themselves were raised in. But there is one problem that I can see happening already, and that is that some parents may want more for their children, while as other parents may not care what happens to their children as far as which direction they are heading in life. The adult expectations can cause more problems within the families because there may be too much pressure put onto the youth of today. Pressure as in getting a job, to get married and have a successful career, and to the youth of today, these expectations are too high.