Using drama as a tool for building social skills is a fun way for children to build confidence without them even realizing it. You can adapt these various drama games to suit different age groups and interests. Role-playing Assign different scenarios where participants act out real-life situation...
Youth Groups or Community Service Organizations:Youth groups provide a supportive environment where teens can connect with others, build friendships, and learn leadership skills. Book Club:In a book club, teens get to discuss books and share their opinions. This helps them learn to listen, respect...
Researchshows that friends are a key source of social support for teens, and that this relationship is an important avenue for contributing. The more equal power dynamics in friendships with same-aged peers allow adolescents to play a more significant role in the relationship than they ...
Social media is very open all day, every day. It doesn’t matter what teens are doing, the unparalleled access to the neighborhood, school, state, country and international news is overwhelming – in a good way. It is vital to teach the teens of today that they must equip themselves with...
Murthy has previously stressed the potential harms that teenagers encounter from social media platforms, pushing last year for stronger guidelines for children and teens amid growing research that indicates the apps pose what he described at the time as a "profound risk" to young people's mental ...
A correlational study was conducted in order to determine if there are differences between groups of adolescent girls on measures of self-esteem, body image, and online peer influence, relative to their SNS usage. In the present study, the SNS usage habits of teens between the ages of 14 ...
Social media is a great way to find groups specific to many interests, issues, and needs. They can find other like-minded individuals to discuss hobbies, shared issues, and more. This can be super helpful especially for children who might otherwise feel marginalized or alone, where soci...
LGBTQ+ Rights: The fight for equality, anti-discrimination laws, and the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals continues, especially in countries with restrictive laws. Education Inequality: Disparities in educational opportunities and quality between different socioeconomic groups hinder social mobility and economic...
Often teens need support even when they don’t ask or it. You’re concerned about your child suffering now, and you’re concerned that if nothing changes, they’ll miss out on opportunities they’ve worked so hard for. Goals they used to care about. A future that should be well within...
While it is one of several proposals in Congress seeking to make the internet safer for children and teens, the four senators said in a joint interview with The Associated Press that they believe they are representative of millions of American parents who are gravely worried that social me...