Summary: In the article “Online Friendship” wrote by Jan Farrington describes how the online touch the real life world, how teenagers use the Internet to keep in touch with their friends, and how to secure the information when the people spend time online. The most teenagers think social networking and IM are the easy way to help them stay connected and keep in touch with their friends, so they spend a lot of time linked in cyberspace or they use IM to keep in touch with their friends etc. For example: Lauren B said that attends in a high school she has so many friends, and she never saw each other during the day, so she and her friends used IM to everybody after school. Sometimes the parent worry about online world is talking over teen social life, and they bring the problem in their real life to continuous in the social life. For example Laurent B said that life online wasn’t always friendly, there were a lot of gossip.
I remember how I was so fascinated by all the light and pictures moving on the screen catching my attention every moment. Furthermore, homes should have Internet access within their homes to allow their kids too look up information about something they had just learned with limited access to sites. In addition, children are very impressionable and when they see something on T.V. they almost take it as if it’s real what they are watching. This connects with the ideas of Fast Food being bad since children see advertisements on T.V.
Be Supportive: When we least expect it, children are listening. Whether they seem mesmerized or distracted by the television, their iPods, or their cell phones our words, both positive and negative, stick. They will begin to model or try to become what they think you think of them. If your consistent message is "you are overweight and all you do is sit in front of the TV all day", then that is what they will eventually emulate. Positive reinforcement like, "You looked so fast running from the school bus to the front door today.
My child can focus on a particular topic for an unusually long period of time. I have observed that my child can focus on any topic related to brain and biography of historical personalities. The online magazone 'neuroscience for kids' is of a particular interest and reciting the facts about brain is her favourite time. My child finds humor in situations or events unusual for his/her age. My child has high sense of humour.Just to give couple of examples, once when we moved from big 3 level home to an apartment, She joked that what did i do with the rest of the other 2-levels.
At the local park children may be involved in physical play. This is when the child will be playing with outdoor equipment for example climbing frames this also helps her intellectual development. In a Pre-school setting children may be involved in domestic play this type of play encourages motor skills, intellectual development through planning and naming her pictures and creations, language development through describing her projects, and social development when playing with friends. It includes things like drawing, painting, modelling, cutting and sticking and the like. In outdoor play children may be involved in water and sand play this is where the children will be playing in water or sand.
Life has distinctly undergone some very dramatic changes ever since the dawn of the Internet era and with each passing day there is a growing dependence on it. People start to rely on the accessibility of information on social media, we rely on the internet to give us answers and retain information. Social networking including Facebook, twitter, blogs and even You Tube play a role in our education. Students who attempt to multi-task, checking their social media sites while there are studying or working on a paper lose their ability to perform the task on hand and their concentration by these distractions, I know this to be true because I can admit that I too have looked at Facebook and the internet for distractions while writing this paper. Another problem that social media creates another way for people to bully or have access to emotionally abuse others.
For my community service project I chose to work with Chick-fil-A . Every year they host a Trunk-or-Treat event in the parking lot which consists of having local businesses have the trunk of their car decorated like a front door. The kids dress up for Halloween then go trunk to trunk picking up goodies, candies, and little toys that the individual businesses are handing out. The kids enjoy this event because it is like they get two Halloweens, instead of just one. The kids who participate also get a free kids meal from Chick-fil-A, and who passes up a free meal.
Some of them give the iPhones or iPads to make their children silent and to have a peaceful time after their have worked all day. Some of them five then to their kids because the kids what to play. During a party, I saw every child was putting their head down and playing with the devices. I thought why are we have a party? A party is for people to communicate and socialize.
Fun Youth Group Games to Pep Up Parties, Picnics and Get-Togethers Fun youth group games are exciting ways to urge the people present at picnics, parties or get-togethers to mingle with each other. These interesting, merry games help people at social get-togethers to interact with others, to get to know each other better or make new friends. Social and interpersonal skills are enhanced by these exhilarating fun youth group games. Time flies fast when team members start to play these wonderful group games and they crave for more. 4 Fun Youth Group Games For Indoors And Outdoors :- Get To Know Each Other This is a nice game to urge people to interact with each other at a social gathering.
How is shutting our bedroom doors and sitting constantly on our devices like robots considered to be “socialising”. For an average teenager, seven hours a day is used consuming media, and surfing the web. Do you find yourself constantly logging onto Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, or being ignored by people who are? I myself admit to being a fan of social media. I like being able to connect with my friends and family through these social media sites, and know what is happening around the world at all hours of the day, However, this also means its all easy to fall victim to the alternating nature of the internet.