The 21st Century Teen face emotional battles that the 20th Century Teen never had to face 🙈. For example, if someone at school started a rumor about you in 1996 👀, the only people who knew were school mates and the possible friends and teacher/coach of the gossiper 😒 (BTW, we had landline phones and beepers back then 😳). Fast forward to 2019, when someone gossips, that rumor is spread to the world through social media and the world can now judge you 😩.
Kalin's point, "I feel like teens feel like they can't speak up without being judged 🧐 or looked at differently."
The judgement and pressure teens feel today is not only peer based, but pressure 🥺 😖 is coming from parents, school, family, community and now social media, contributing to depression and fatal coping methods 😱 😢. We are losing healthy, positive child-adult attachment and communication (positive child-adult interaction = 🥰).
Remember to 🤗 👏 ☑️ and ❤️ our youth. Later, you will reap the 😌😇.
(Period!) 😘
Reference: https://childmind.org/article/is-social-media-use-causing-depression/
The journey continues through Washington D.C. Our visit to the White House was informative. The secret service disclosed some secrets that are not shared in history class. Do you know who built the White House?
One of the things I learned was that Alexander Hamilton's nickname was "Little Lion". I didn't know that. The second experience was taking a photo next to my favorite singer, Michael Jackson. I had fun learning more about the U.S. Presidents...
