The article "Texting May Be Taking a Toll," Katie Hafner explores the issue of teenage texting, and the problems that it is creating.
With texting becomming so popular, physicians and psychologists are becomming worried. They say that texting is leading to anxiety, school distractions, bad grades, thumb injuries, and bad sleep.
Dr. Martin Joffe surveyed students at 2 high schools. He saw that the teenagers were sending hundreds of messages every day. "That's one every few minutes," he said. "Then you hear that these kids are responding to texts late at night. That's going to cause sleep issues in an age group that's already plagues with sleep issues."
Because texting is something that goes on constantly, more like everyday, psychologists have not come to a conclusion on the health effects of texting. However, Sherry Turkle who is a psychologist, studied teenage texting, and she said that it might be changing the way we grow up.
"Among the jobs of adolescence are to separate from your parents, and to find the peace and quiet to become the person you decide you want to be," Professor Turkle said. "Texting hits directly at both those jobs."
Doctors expect teenagers to break away from parents, "but if technology makes something like staying in touch very, very easy, that's harder to do; now you have adolescents who are texting their mothers every 15 times a day, asking things like, 'Should I get the red shoes or the blue shoes?'" Professor Turkle added.
However, Michael Hausauer feels that "Texting can be an enormous tool. It offers companionship and the promise of connectedness. At the same time, texting can make a youngster feel frightened and overly exposed."
In my opinion, I'm kind of in the middle. Do teens do a lot of texting? Yes. However, sometimes the texting is beneficial. More than likely, you will find a teenagers whereever you go texting, whether it be a friend, girlfriend, boyfriend or parent. There is nothing wrong with texting, except for the amount of texting we do. However, you never know who we are texting. We could be texting our mother to tell her about some changes in school, or we could even be texting our friends to talk about a major crisis. Adults' problem, in my eyes, is that they can't really understand teenagers for who they are. Texting is just like Ray Bans, and skinny jeans; a trend. The only difference is, it doesn't get old.
Now, you should take the time right now and think; if I was put in the situation my child is in, how would the teenage me react?
Texting is a trend that everyone is doing. If you are not doing it, your "so many years ago." Think about it....
With texting becomming so popular, physicians and psychologists are becomming worried. They say that texting is leading to anxiety, school distractions, bad grades, thumb injuries, and bad sleep.
Dr. Martin Joffe surveyed students at 2 high schools. He saw that the teenagers were sending hundreds of messages every day. "That's one every few minutes," he said. "Then you hear that these kids are responding to texts late at night. That's going to cause sleep issues in an age group that's already plagues with sleep issues."Because texting is something that goes on constantly, more like everyday, psychologists have not come to a conclusion on the health effects of texting. However, Sherry Turkle who is a psychologist, studied teenage texting, and she said that it might be changing the way we grow up.
"Among the jobs of adolescence are to separate from your parents, and to find the peace and quiet to become the person you decide you want to be," Professor Turkle said. "Texting hits directly at both those jobs."
Doctors expect teenagers to break away from parents, "but if technology makes something like staying in touch very, very easy, that's harder to do; now you have adolescents who are texting their mothers every 15 times a day, asking things like, 'Should I get the red shoes or the blue shoes?'" Professor Turkle added.
However, Michael Hausauer feels that "Texting can be an enormous tool. It offers companionship and the promise of connectedness. At the same time, texting can make a youngster feel frightened and overly exposed."
In my opinion, I'm kind of in the middle. Do teens do a lot of texting? Yes. However, sometimes the texting is beneficial. More than likely, you will find a teenagers whereever you go texting, whether it be a friend, girlfriend, boyfriend or parent. There is nothing wrong with texting, except for the amount of texting we do. However, you never know who we are texting. We could be texting our mother to tell her about some changes in school, or we could even be texting our friends to talk about a major crisis. Adults' problem, in my eyes, is that they can't really understand teenagers for who they are. Texting is just like Ray Bans, and skinny jeans; a trend. The only difference is, it doesn't get old.
Now, you should take the time right now and think; if I was put in the situation my child is in, how would the teenage me react?
Texting is a trend that everyone is doing. If you are not doing it, your "so many years ago." Think about it....
Good post. So what do you think parents should do? It seems like you want parents to just let their kids make their own mistakes. Is that so? 95
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