Children Growing Up Too Fast

In “Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen,” Kay S. Hymowitz points out that in modern society kids mature too early, creating a negative trend called “tween phenomenon”; it occurs when kids become teenagers at a young age and skip preadolescence. According to Hymowitz, the evidence presents a troubling picture of tweens who are too concerned with their looks, are involved in criminal activities, are having sex, are doing drugs, and are consuming alcohol. She provides evidence to exemplify tweendom’s negative influence on both the tweens and the world around them. The author concludes that media, absentee parents, and peers are among the several complex causes of the negative trends of tweens. Although Hymowitz may sound excessively cynical, she states a reasonable case that should be considered by parents, educators, and psychologists. Without a doubt, the three most negative behavioral trends of many tweens are their need for attention, their peer group pressure, and most importantly, their unawareness of the consequences for their irresponsible actions.

“Marketers have a term for this new social animal, kids between eight and 12: they call them “tweens.” The name captures the ambiguous reality: though chronologically midway between early childhood and adolescent, this group is leaning more and more toward teen styles, teen attitudes, and sadly, teen behavior at its most troubling (Hymowitz, 4).”

The media's wide development is forming the qualities and sentiments of the youthful era. The introduction of the media additionally advances social issues with our childhood. Issues, for example, social conduct, change in way of life, demonstrated conduct, harassing, battling. The rundown can go on. It is simply the way the circumstance puts. Diversion media use has turned into a revering background in present day families, additionally in the day by day lives of our kids. In the relatively recent past we had incredible profundity and ethics in TV. As far back as the advances in innovation, youngsters would read, play with toys and not computer

In the article, “Confessions of a news junkie who hides the news from his kids,” Barry Gittins discusses the topic of mass media, he asserts that it has misguided children. Mass media has always been something to inform people. Yet, it’s the over consumption of media seems to affect the mental and physical wellness of children. This new generation of advancing gadgets and devices has altered children’s way of life and connections. The best way to avoid harming the child’s mental and physical wellness is moderation on the screens. Parents claim that in their youth, they used their creativity or sensibility to create things that make them occupied and entertained them. Children are only children once. So, why not bring that back and help the

Several tv shows today have a negative influence on younger children for this reason perents should be wary of what their children watch on the televion. today many people think that show spongebob is a great show for children ,however the show spongebob encourages kids to make terrible decigions .for instance the eposide when Patrick wanted to act like the life guard larry and then persuaded spongebob to make bizzare and drastic stunts. This eposiod is a bad influence because it can cause kids to partisapat in dangers activaties . anthoner tv show that has a negativeinflunce on kids is rabbits invasion,the show does not help kids inprove or develop their national landuege since they talk in a wierd language in the show for example one

“A 2011 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) survey indicates that more than 47 percent of all high school students say they have had sex; and 15 percent of high school students have had sex with four or more partners during their lifetime,” (NCSL). In our society today sex is a very open subject and is being observed by young adults in everyday life. Walking down the street we see half naked women plastered on billboards and street signs, leaving nothing to the imagination and making adolescents everywhere question why and wonder what that is. As children we are taught that abstinence before marriage is the right way to live, and engaging in such

Teenagers are now being encouraged to practice safe sex. Coming through high school today the message is to be sexually responsible, use birth control. This gives teenagers the green light to go out and have sex. It is this kind of acceptance that leads to irresponsible sexual activity among teens. It would be much more

Popular culture in today’s society is capable of reaching out to more people than ever before at ease. Growing up, popular culture affected us even if we may not have realized it happening. Everything from who your favorite sports team is, to your favorite television when you were younger, directly relates to pop culture. Although most people do not realize this phenomenon taking place it is not surprise that mass media has a firm grip on what they want children to believe and think when they are going through one of the most important stages of their lives. The messages that they convey are the thoughts that children reproduce, and the personas that they build of themselves are all relative to how popular culture has effected them.

Teens are using the internet and the media to learn about sex, if they are not getting the information from credible sources at school. The perpetuation of sexual objectification in the media can influence young adults, especially young girls. Half naked women are all over magazines, internet and television. This images along with shows such as Teen Mom, can add to the confusion and curiosity about sexual behavior. If these young students are bombarded with all of these over sexualized ideas in the media, but only are told to abstain from sex, it can cause many issues for the students. One side of society tells these students that sex is a positive act, while abstinence only programs tell them that sex is bad and to avoid

In teen life, if you are not having sex you are label as being not cool. Underage girls will make a plan to lose their virginity soon as possible “It is widely believed that the earlier they do it the less painful it will be” (Gurko 26). Underage girls have in their mind, the sooner they lose their virginity, less problems they will have finding the right person to take it away. Birth control can lower teen pregnancy but it cannot stop teen pregnancy completely. Society morals have changed on different aspects of growing up and are coming of age to fast. Many teenage girls are growing too fast, that they skip childhood. Generations each year are growing faster as of age and becoming more independent. Controlling all pregnancies will cut population rates and begin to turn economy upside down. Birth keeps the population and world going. It is helpful that teenagers who are sexually active learn to use all protections and get birth control kind of substance. That why it is important that parents teach the young adults and underage kids the way of life and protecting their future. Many teens have not been introduced of making good choices and taking care of responsibilities. Everything we are taught and our parent’s home is preparing us for the real world when we have to make it on our

There is a rise of sex hormones traveling through the body and one thing most teenagers are pressured about is sex. Even some people are not considered “cool” unless they have had sex. With the sudden rise in profane lifestyles with the music, fashion, and advertisement sex is everywhere and teenagers are the easiest group of people to sell something to. They say that the later generations are maturing faster than the ones before them. They were pretty wild when I was in high school, I pretty much walked into people having sex in the stair case. I could not even fathom as to what they are doing today in those

Now more than ever, media has become an ever-present part of everyday life. While certain aspects of media can be positive, such as the increase of social and political awareness among kids, many aspects provide a very negative influence, especially for children. Ellen Goodman described the media as “an increasingly hostile environment” for kids. The media, and television in particular, can negatively shape a child’s view about themselves and their world, from promoting unrealistic standards of beauty to normalizing violence.

Society has plugged information into young people’s mind for generations. This programmed, presumptive information has made youthful people, especially teenagers, and young adults think and act like robots. Buried deep in many teenagers thoughts ensued by their parents and society are the words, “No sex before marriage!”. Different people, have countless different reasons that they believe one should not have sex before marriage. Society, in lots of different places look poorly on those who engage sexually before being married. I’ve witnessed it happen more then once locally in my area, and its always ends with such a negative outcome. Even in schools kids are taught that sex is bad thing, and told not to engage in any sort of sexual activity. Rather then being taught about the importance of safe sex society is programing kids to just not have sex at all, especially in America. “Americans love to tout the value of waiting until marriage to have sex. We teach abstinence-only education in schools across the country, and even comprehensive sex-ed programs often point out that "abstinence is best."” (Jill Filipovic). People get married, most of the time, because the love each other but marriage is only a document. And when you love someone, you don’t need a contract to prove it. And you shouldn’t need a stamp of approval saying when and when you’re not allowed to be intimate with someone you love. Having sex before marriage should not be looked so poorly upon this day in age.

Adolescence is a time where an individual’s sense of identity starts to emerge and a majority of their social norms are perceived. In this day and age, adolescents live in a world heavily submerged around media, which plays an important and habitual part of an adolescents' life. In a national survey conducted in 2009, adolescents on average spend more than 7.5 hours using some sort of media a day (Rideout, Foehr, Roberts, 2010). With this unprecedented access to the world, individuals are learning and connecting with many different people and ideas through the media (Brown & Bobkowsi, 2011). With different forms of media playing an influential part in an adolescents’ life, their perceived social norms may be seriously influenced.

What is most often being taught is abstinence-only sexual education, which is education focused on preventing sexual activity. Abstinence often tells teenagers to simply wait until marriage, and often places a stigma on the ones who don’t. By referring to the act of sexual activity of something akin to a paper being wadded up, or something becoming dirty and torn, it gives off the idea that if you have sex, you’re essentially becoming a lesser, unclean person. That ideology is especially harmful for sexual abuse victims, as well as anyone who decides to have sex anyway. As a consequence of this implanted guilt, teenagers are less likely to get tested for STIs, go to clinics for pregnancy, etc. Simply telling teenagers not to have sex and showing them slideshows of STIs are simple not effective; in a study done in south Texas by Jonathan Gelfond, the current sexual education implemented had no effect on pregnancy rates. (Gelfond). They don’t tell teenagers how to prevent pregnancy and they don’t tell teenagers how to avoid