Child Behavior Compared To Previous Generation

Changes in children's lifestyles over the course of generations, have affected the outcome of the behavior patterns we now see in the upcoming and younger generations. Over time the behavior patterns have become dramatically different than previous generations have shown. Realizing that this process of behavior has changed do to the interactions of life and people surrounding them, and the changing of todays world. That can, and will cause such different child behavior compared to other generations. Giving my topic, “Child Behavior Compared to Previous Generations”, the main reason behind the behavior change and patterns, are the changes in technology and lifestyle we are now intergrading into our daily life. One of the many differences

between today and previous dates is Social Media. Social Media is a huge part of many, if not all children's life in Todays World. With the openness of social media, people have the understanding that such things as drug use, and provocative music, is more acceptable now than it was in previous non social media generations. Giving awful aspects of social media that are becoming normal, opposed to before the social media generation raised. With Social Media on the technology side which is always evolving, a more personal side is there too. Something called Latchkey Children which affects the upcoming child's generation on their personal level, creating children without guidance which is all they need at important stages in the beginning of their life.

Social Media is constantly changing, and changing the minds and behaviors of millions and millions of children and their generation’s, with this teenagers are making intolerable actions and behaviors from many years ago to be tolerable or accepted. Whether the change is good or bad the outcome is dramatic. As looked at overviews on http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/09/teens-social-media-technology-2015/, its been reported that 92% of teens report going online daily, including 24% who say they go online “almost constantly”. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter theses are the top seen social media apps that teenagers ages 13 thru 17 use regularly or constantly throughout the day.

Looking at this the majority of the teenagers lifestyle now is social media. With this change teenagers on social media have become more vulnerable to bullying one of the most common problems with social media, that affects this generation the most, especially the behavior change. The main cause for the bullying online called cyberbullying, is the fact that putting something on the internet versus telling someone face to face, teenagers have found that this is an easier way of a form bullying. The behavior changes are dramatically increased from before bullying to cyberbullying, mainly because the general public can see and talk about it regardless if it involves that individual. By doing this it can severely hurt, and change the behavior of the one getting bullied. But with social media, there’s always good aspects, one good aspect of Social Media is that people can connect from far away places to short distance apps on their phones and computers, meaning that travel can possibly be less important than before, or making long distance relationships easy to keep and establish. As seen on http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2011-11-28/military-deployment-social-media/51349158/1. An

military family of two daughters, one wife, and a deployed husband. Social Media gave them hope, being able to Skype Thomas Murphy almost daily made the world to them. “You could break away from the monotony of everyday stress and feel like you're back home for a bit," said Murphy. Realizing how hard it is to not know whats going on with a family member that’s across the world in Iraq, can be dramatically hard on any family. But with Social Media it gave them a connection, that is something family’s before the Social Media would have only dreamed of. "I don't know a military family member who isn't on Facebook," said Tara Crooks, co-founder of the Army Wife Network. Katelyn Rowley was constantly on Facebook and Skype to connect with her fiancé and family during a six-month deployment to Kuwait. Keeping a connection with her family, and fiancé greatly improved there relationship. But with everything instant there bound to be a negative aspect, it basically shows everything is instant there’s not a waiting time. For this generations its right now and only now. By doing this daily and using social media to connect rather than connecting face to face in close distance relationships, in my point of view is disrupting the well known and useful life skill called Social Skills. As known people skills or social skills, many if not the majority of teenagers and upcoming generation’s lack in this area greatly. Which is a key feature that every individual needs in their life to succeed in todays world.

A Latchkey Child is defined as a child who stays at home without adult supervision for extended time periods, especially after school while a parent or adult is at work.

The word Latchkey basically is a child that uses a key, in the latch to get home or open the home. The census has shown that percentages have dropped dramatically to below 40 percent for ages 5 to 14 to become latchkey children. Over 4.5 million children spend 6.5 hours alone weekly. The biggest problem with the Latchkey Child is they spend time alone without a parent figure in their life having to learn to teach them self. With these regular and expected morals that aren't taught because the opportunity isn't there, it’s hurting, and changing the behaviors of the new and upcoming generation constantly. With previous generations the children would come home and expect to have the parent their giving them the direction that is necessary to have in every child's life. Parenting styles and efforts will change a child’s life dramatically and is extremely hard to change in a person’s life, once taught one way. What people are taught at the beginning of their life will be carried throughout their entire life making huge behavior changes for our new

generation.