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.
This is not the case when comparing them to the previous generation. This is what Clive Thompson’s essay argues about, but instead of directly targeting young people, he blames parents, the society, and social networks. Indeed, when compared to the previous generations, parents and society were stricter. With the arrival of social networks, teens tend to spend more time on it rather than face to face. Because of the impact of the society and parents plus the evolution of new technologies, young people are less and less able to communicate face to face.
As a result, the problem of alcohol abuse and drinking deaths become graver among college students. Aside from lack of education, Mindy Sink seems to neglect the problem of peer pressure in her article. The influence of peer pressure is strong especially when people are still in their adolescence. Influences of peers may worsen the problem of alcohol abuse. Erik Erikson is a psychoanalyst whose eight developmental stages are very famous.
Which comes in, why kids shouldn’t be try as an adult. Most of us teens act pretty much like kids when were still 15-17 years old. In Adam Liptak’s article “Supreme Court to Rule on Executing Young Killers” published in The New York Times quotes “And jurors may not necessarily accept expert testimony concerning recent research showing that the adolescent brain is not fully developed”. Jurors have to accept the fact that teens brains aren’t develop and still may act like little kids. Also the fact that teens are so rough towards one another there brains aren’t thinking on what can happen if there physical towards people violently.
The main reason that many people do not think the age limit should change is that underage kids will not be able to handle the freedom and will cause problems all over the country. In addition, younger kids will be able to get alcohol easier than before because they will be able to talk to seniors in high school about getting alcohol. Which could be true for high school kids, because the kids of age can charge them and make money from it. That being said, it may be a bad idea for the drinking age to be lowered to
Studies have shown that for the most part, we have increased the probability that our child or children will not have a problem with alcohol or drugs. A teenager’s brain reacts differently to alcohol than an adults brain would. We know that because the beginning of this addiction can happen much quicker in a teenager than it would on an adult. I think that the main reason for this policy is to help teenagers avoid the use of alcohol as much as possible. As you can see, the seriousness of alcoholism is by far worse than what most teenagers may think it is.
Obese individuals might suffer from social insecurities and emotional suffering. Hollywood makes clear the emphasis on looks. Since looks are “very important,” obese people may become the butt of many jokes. Obese children are often ridiculed in school and many times suffer psychological damages. Obese teenagers may be hesitant to socialize with their peers since most people this age are self conscious and will likely make fun of the overweight teenager to make them feel better.
Parent's have their influence on teens to a great extent and the result of this bad influence is alcoholic teens following the principle, like parents, like children.In recent years it's known that people who have/had alcoholic parents are more likely to develop the diorder themselves. Most teens try alcohol for the first time at home and that is where the parents can be held responsible. Instead of the parents influence their children to drink alcohol, they should talk and make it clear to their adolescents that drinking impairs coordination and decision making abilities. If more time was spent with adolescents by their parents and it wasn't any alcohol involved their would be less deaths and car
Many people tend to get into trouble with alcohol, rather than being responsible with age and maturity. Consuming alcohol has a lot to do with age and maturity. At the age of eighteen, young people are either attending high school or entering college. Alcohol can lead to many dangers in one’s life, such as brain and liver damage, addiction, and failure to a make wise decisions, all compounded by lowering the drinking
Many times, “the social support a person receives while in an interracial relationship can be either beneficial or detrimental” (Honeycutt et al). This disapproval of interracial dating could also be accredited to the well known belief that interracial dating is a sign of rebellion and angst shown by teenagers that subconsciously want to disobey their parents and go against the “norm”. Analyzing data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Kara Joyner and Grace Kao also found that “interracial dating is most common among teenagers but becomes infrequent for people approaching 30” (Jones et al). Joyner and Kao attribute this shift in attitudes to the growing importance of the opinions of the persons’ friends and family. As the individual grows up, they find themselves more sensitive to the judgement of those around them.