“Being 13”: Teens, Phones and Mental Health | Amanpour and Company
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Social media has transformed the way children interact and behave, impacting even those who are not on the platforms. In a new report for The New York Times, Jessica Bennett followed three 13-year-old girls for a year, witnessing the impact of social media on their lives. Bennett talks to Hari Sreenivasan about the trials and tribulations of being 13 today. Also joining the show is Mitch Prinstein, the chief science officer at the American Psychological Association.
Originally aired on Oct 4, 2023
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My neighbor told me her 12 year old daughter sleeps for several hours after school, I asked her what time she goes to bed and she shrugged her shoulders and said she’s on her phone all night. There’s some lazy parenting going on. You have to limit the time spent on devices it’s damaging .
or is it because the parents are so strict? It could be that way too
So glad I didn't have kids,lol, it really is the hardest job on the planet and I admire those who do it well.
As an educator, I hate witnessing the effects of unfettered internet access by my ELEMENTARY students. They are sleepy and not prepared for learning on many days. Not too mentioned the inappropriate things they see online and talk about disruptively.
I remember running past a kids park along a jogging trail, I looked over and saw 70% of the parents staring at their phones while the kids were all playing on the equipment. I continued the run, reflecting on what messages the kids were receiving, what conditiong...to be distracted by the phone while life is passing us by. I like doing mindfulness meditation to keep my self in check. There's a book called 30 Days Without Social Media by Harper Daniels that I liked a lot, gave me a meditation exercise to do each day I wasn't on social media.
I think kids need to be taught how to interact with other people in person. Sadly social media has literally extinguished this very basic naturally learnt skill in kids
Fantastic conversation. This is my favorite news and analysis program right now and I wish it had more reach.
Thank you for covering this story.
Jessica, most parents these days are so addicted to their own phones and devices they don’t communicate with their kids and they don’t have good communication skills .they don’t know how to say” how does that mAke you feel”, many of them scream and punish.
Absolutely. Just curious, are you from India or were you born here? Asking coz the things that you are talking about is incredibly hard for anyone living in conservative America to see on their own
A very difficult landscape for teens to maneuvers, plus I'm left wondering when they have time to study. Teens tend to be absorbed with themselves and their peer group anyway; with a lot of them it's become a nonstop reality show on social media.
Over all the phone and social media is extremely STRESSFUL
Hari is an amazing journalist he asks good questions and actually listens to his subjects
In the meantime, my teen daughter decided to be an entirely offline kid. She always has been. Do you know the consequence of that? She read 20 novels during this past summer, painted a gazillion watercolor and acrylic artworks, made history in our district by getting a perfect score on her standardized exam, graduated with a 100% average in every single class, even tough she was taking courses well above her grade level ((including advanced mathematics.)
Bro being 13 sucks especially for girls. I was one once and I remember it only briefly since that's how bad it sucked. I am sure it's no different now, social media or not.
My 13 yr old is the only one in his friend group that does not have a phone. Probably one of a few in the 8th grade without one. At this point he hasn't asked for one yet. We plan to hold off until he starts driving at 16.
It's time for a specific branch under the FCC to develop standards to control abuse on social media of false information and agenda type news outlets. A standard to control all the channels that advertise themselves as legitimate journalists. Control Government and Political Candidate propaganda from spreading.
That would include adults as well, the protection of liars who continue to spew their dangerous rhetoric without any threat has brought us where we are as a country to date, and it isn't pretty. Doubt most 13 year olds are paying attention to politics though.
News is now social media
If we use it we are modeling for our children .
Fascinating, but it raised more questions than it answered. While I'm sure that the new technology will create new stresses, I couldn't help but wonder how the stress levels compare to pre-technology stresses on kids. Teenage years are notoriously difficult for teens of any generation, and it's probably important to resist the temptation to blame the technology, which is probably more of an amplifier of existing issues.
The second thing that I wondered about was the parenting issue. The authors say more communication with parents is important, but that's a whole, complicated, ball of wax. Parents don't automatically have good parenting skills, and communication can make things better or worse. (I was particularly concerned about the girl whose parents made her sign contracts about her behavior. You can't expect that to work the same way with a 13 year old!).
SM is a nonstop 24/7 amplifier of those issues we faced as kids prior to SM.
The changes in brain development is frightening. I have seen first hand a fairly young child exhibit withdrawal behaviors when screen time was either delayed or unavailable for a short time. This same child is now 17 and dropped out of school two years ago. His potential for the future looks dim, where it should be bright. It wasn't social media, as the topic of this story is covering. It was and is video games.
WOW!😮
A best friend of mine sent his videogame-addicted kid on a summer backpacking trip and it was a war to get him to go. But the 12-year-old came home a week later glad he had gone, with the backpacking leader reporting to my friend the kid was a natural leader among his peers.
@@user-uw6ff6gp8c What a great idea! I'm so glad this worked. Hope he has new goals and passions.
As a former/retired teacher the technology has gone overboard. It has removed ownership and responsibility from students and parents for their grades. The pressure falls on the teacher to make sure all of the squeaky wheels are getting the attention.
She wasn't lying about talking like a teenager. She even resorts to using that "creaky" voice (vocal fry,), which is evidentiary of excessive media consumption.
No wonder History, Economics and Literature are no longer learned in School.
This is a very important point
Schools could be a lot more interesting, relevant, and thought provoking. Why not drop all the current subjects and let "young people" discuss, hash out, what's on their minds. Teach basic class subjects to the ones who want it. Talk about finance, cost of living, the usual failure of marriages, the expectation of divorce, what it really means to have a baby in your life; teach farming, plant trees...let's give kids something to live for, the things they choose to live for.
American school curriculum is really behind compared to the rest of the world. I don’t think moving away from teaching actual subjects would help any bit . In fact it would make the entitlement and the ‘no need to understand anything outside our line of sight’ bubble more strong.
Just an example, junior and senior years of high school, an overwhelming majority of kids in rural India, China , Brazil etc are taking Calculus, but here in small town rural America more than 90% of our kids are taking car maintenance, wood shop, etc at that time. I don’t have anything agains car maintenance and wood shop skills but when over 90% of the kids start opting for them it becomes a problem. I understand that most people wouldn’t want to take Calculus over car maintenance anywhere in the world just cause Calculus is hard , but our system facilitates that choice with its lack of AP classes in small town America and those parents wanting kids to stay in the small towns when they grow up. The system doesn’t facilitate that choice elsewhere
You: "teach farming and planning trees"
Me: "ok boomer".
@@stevechance150 I think it’s more of a feature seen in small town/ rural parents than among the generalized boomer generation. I don’t hear this line of thinking from boomers in big cities and urban areas to this extent
The US needs to take a close look at the Finnish Education Model. Their children speak multiple languages fluently, they spend far less time on “homework”, they don’t take multiple guess tests, and they live in darkness for months at a time!
@@u2canmakeadifference603 oh man I have heard that from citizens from other countries but living here in the US. They complain about this comparison with the Finnish education model where they don’t have pass/fail or promotion at the end of the year or any exams of any kind till the end of 8th grade. From what I understand it works in Finland and Finland only because of their population size, nature of their economy, extremely low population density and robust social security measures which exist only because they cater to a small number of people. It’s really hard to successfully implement and replicate that elsewhere let alone in the top 3 most populated countries of the world India, China, America. The collateral damage to the economy is massive
Contemporary view of rearing children, "I've had them, now their your problem," allows for actions without consequentemces. We are responsible for what we create!
How are we evolving in the world? Will we land on our feet?
Why was a hispanic and asian teenager not chosen? In other parts of the country.
Just three? Rather small section of that population....to say the least.
and random locations. no california, NY, florida?
Who the F wants to go into Florida?
I wouldn't go there if you paid me! Their "stand your ground" law, are you kidding me! And didn't they make it legal to sue teachers and run over protesters? Are you even allowed to say the word "evolution" to a thirteen year old without risking being charged with grooming?!
If you want to change children's reactions to social media, get off the phone
From age 12 to 18 kids should be taken out of society until they are mature.
Terrible time to be a parent….was there ever a good time???
I wonder..are Amish children immune?
Yes. The Amish don’t use Electricity in the home. They shun almost all modern, and antique technology.
A nice way to live.
If kids want to explore a cave, theres nothing you can do about it, unless you remove the cave....
I have three daughters in school, but that was a very boring video.
What were you hoping it would be about?