What details are OK for your child to keep to herself? Can she call you if her plans change? As your child gets older, you can reduce your supervision and involvement in his activities. Can you drive your child to things if you have enough notice? Are you available in an emergency? Will you offer transport to other friends? It also gives you more time together and the chance to get to know his friends. One way to do this is to encourage your child to have friends over and give them a space in your home.
You could think about how open you want your home to be. Will there be a curfew? Will you provide meals, snacks and drinks? You can also do things to surprise them — leave a hand-written note, inspirational quote or bible verse on their pillow or give them a backrub after a long day.
Of all the things teenagers love, nothing compares to a well-stocked fridge. Food is one of the love languages of teenagers! And, sometimes, it feels as though your teen hardly notices or even cares. Oh… but they do.
There was a time you and your child did everything together — you hung out, ran errands together, played games and watched television together. Keeping up with grades, extracurricular activities, a job, internship and family obligations, not to mention the pressure to make BIG decisions including which college to attend should they decide to go to college and future career plans.
Although the proliferation of smartphones has given teens the ability to constantly share different aspects of their lives, this survey finds that many teens regularly forego posting selfies, videos or other updates of their lives to social media.
Notably, in each instance close to half or more of teens say they rarely or never share these types of posts on social media. There is some demographic variation in the types of content teens say they post to social media. A central conversation surrounding social media and young people is the impact these platforms may be having on the emotional well-being of teens. A majority of teens believe social media has had a positive impact on various aspects of their lives, the survey finds.
But although sizable shares of teens encounter positive experiences on social media, some report encountering drama or feeling pressure to present themselves in a certain way.
The survey also presented teens with four pairs of words and asked them to choose the sentiment that most closely matches how they feel when using social media.
In each instance, teens are more likely to associate their social media use with generally positive rather than negative feelings. Interestingly, there are few demographic differences on these questions.
For example, teen boys and girls are similarly likely to view their social media use in these ways, as are older and younger teens. Just as relationships get forged and reinforced on social media, friendships can turn sour and require teens to prune their friend or follower lists. But a somewhat larger share of teens say they engage in this behavior relatively sparingly. Teens who at least sometimes unfriend or unfollow people provide several reasons for deleting people from their friend lists on social media.
The percentage of teens who spend time with their closest friend at school is largely consistent across a wide range of demographic groups.
Similarly, black teens are more likely than their white and Hispanic counterparts to hang out in a neighborhood. Teens today have more ways to stay in touch with friends than ever before. Beyond daily interactions at school, teens are increasingly connected by smartphones, social media, gaming, and the internet. This survey asked teens how often they are in touch with their closest friend through face-to-face contact, phone calls, text messages, or any other digital method.
Girls are especially likely to be in touch with their closest friend on a regular basis. Black teens are less likely than their white and Hispanic peers to communicate daily with their closest friend. While there were no major differences by age, the economic and educational status of their parents or where they live, teens who have access to certain technologies are particularly likely to be in more frequent contact with their closest friend.
Teens who have mobile internet access — whether through a phone, tablet or other mobile device — are significantly more likely than those without this kind of access to be in frequent touch with their closest friend. Focusing in on smartphone users, teens who have access to a smartphone also are likely to be in daily touch with their closest friend.
Social media use also is correlated with more frequent friend interactions. Teens who use a large number of social media platforms communicate even more frequently.
Teens today have a number of ways to get in touch with each other, and they use them in various combinations. Some methods, however, are more favored than others. This survey asked teens about their preferred modes of digital communication with their closest friend — the first, second, and third most common way they get in touch online or on their phones. Text messaging is the dominant form of digital communication among teens. Following general texting patterns, teen girls are significantly more likely than teen boys to say texting is their first choice for getting in touch with their closest friend.
Older teens are also particularly likely to use texting as their primary means of getting in touch with a friend. Teens who live in relatively affluent households tend to rely more heavily on texting as a primary means of communication, while teens in lower-income households tend to say social media is how they stay in touch.
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