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    How Teens Are Different From The Past Generations

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    iGens, today's teenagers born between 1995-2012, differ from past generations in their ubiquitous use of mobile technology and social media. They spend five to six hours daily using devices and have poorer emotional health, being lonelier, more anxious, and depressed. They also appear more reluctant to grow up, hanging out with parents longer and delaying licenses. While movies portray teens as gossiping or obsessed with fashion, real teens today tend to focus more on their individual interests rather than others and sometimes show aggression due to developmental changes. Parents must provide nuanced guidance, close relationships, teach life skills but limit screen time to foster real social connections for healthy development.

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    iGens, today's teenagers born between 1995-2012, differ from past generations in their ubiquitous use of mobile technology and social media. They spend five to six hours daily using devices and have poorer emotional health, being lonelier, more anxious, and depressed. They also appear more reluctant to grow up, hanging out with parents longer and delaying licenses. While movies portray teens as gossiping or obsessed with fashion, real teens today tend to focus more on their individual interests rather than others and sometimes show aggression due to developmental changes. Parents must provide nuanced guidance, close relationships, teach life skills but limit screen time to foster real social connections for healthy development.

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    iGens, today's teenagers born between 1995-2012, differ from past generations in their ubiquitous use of mobile technology and social media. They spend five to six hours daily using devices and have poorer emotional health, being lonelier, more anxious, and depressed. They also appear more reluctant to grow up, hanging out with parents longer and delaying licenses. While movies portray teens as gossiping or obsessed with fashion, real teens today tend to focus more on their individual interests rather than others and sometimes show aggression due to developmental changes. Parents must provide nuanced guidance, close relationships, teach life skills but limit screen time to foster real social connections for healthy development.

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    How teens are different from the past generations

    Every generation of teens is shaped by the social, political, and economic events of the day.
    Today’s teenagers are no different—and they’re the first generation whose lives are saturated by
    mobile technology and social media.

    But how do they differ?

    Well basically is their form of thinking, teenagers are very different from other ages, the suffer
    different changes along the time, such as physically and mentally.

    There are different teen’s generations such as iGens, Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials.

    IGens: generation born between 1995 and 2012 “iGens” for their ubiquitous use of the iPhone,
    their valuing of individualism, their economic context of income inequality, their inclusiveness, and
    more.

    They have poorer emotional health thanks to new media. Physiologists find that new media is
    making teens lonelier, anxious, and depressed, and is undermining their social skills and even their
    sleep.

    iGens “grew up with cell phones, had an Instagram page before they started high school, and do
    not remember a time before the Internet,” writes Twenge (a famous writer)They spend five to six
    hours a day texting, chatting, gaming, web surfing, streaming and sharing videos, and hanging out
    online. While other observers have equivocated about the impact, Twenge is clear: More than two
    hours a day raises the risk for serious mental health problems.

    They grow up more slowly. They also appear more reluctant to grow up. They are more likely than
    previous generations to hang out with their parents and decline driver’s licenses.

    So why is adolescence more difficult than childhood?

    Well, being children, most of us lived carefree. We did not have lots of responsibilities; we would
    talk about our feelings easily but now teenagers find it difficult.

    People say they are always gossiping, but clearly it is not true, you can see that statement a lot in
    movies and series but that is not how real life is, teens in real life tend to be more invested in their
    own things than the others, but is true that sometimes some teens do that just because they want
    to mess with other people life’s.

    In movies like clueless you can clearly see how teens there love fashion and shopping, as far as I
    am concerned that is true, because you almost always find teens, especially girls, shopping.

    In movies like grease you can see that they love sports and some are aggressive and rude, in my
    opinion that is true because teens are going through a series of changes that sometimes causes
    them to be aggressive, especially boys, and because there is some misunderstanding. I believe that
    teens like a lot of sports and they are like always in some teams whether it be inside school or
    outside.
    So what can we learn about this? The implicit lesson for parents is that we need more nuanced
    parenting. We can be close to our children and still foster self-reliance. We can allow some screen
    time for our teens and make sure the priority is still on in-person relationships. We can teach
    empathy and respect but also how to engage in hard discussions with people who disagree with
    us. We should not shirk from teaching skills for adulthood, or we risk raising unprepared children.
    And we can—and must—teach teens that marketing of new media is always to the benefit of the
    seller, not necessarily the buyer.

    Yet it’s not all about parenting. If we as a society truly care about human outcomes, we must
    carefully nurture the conditions in which the next generation can flourish.

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