Detrimental To Health ?
Causes & Cures
Youth Techno-Culture Is Emotionally Clueless
Technology has been a blessing and a curse for this current generation of kids who practically come out of the womb with abilities to understand and master computers and smart phones. If you are stumped about how to use your iPhone, ask any 8 year old.
However, teenage interpersonal and language skills are lacking because youth techno-culture is all about language short cuts, acronyms and slang that bypass descriptive words creating much misunderstanding and incomplete communication.
In addition to raising a generation lacking in emotional intelligence, we are weakening their immune system, making one more prone to colds, flu, illness and dis-ease in the body.
When repressed negative emotions such as anger, fear, anxiety, despair, guilt and shame are held in the mind, this causes internal stress to which the body responds by moving into the 'protection mode" response, (freeze, flight or fight response), triggering elevated levels of stress hormones "cortisols" in the body. When these stress hormones remain elevated in a chronic condition, one's immune function is suppressed. This is why some teenagers will get sick with headaches, stomach problems, colds and flu around final exam time.
This generation of kids are lost in the evolution of technology and until parents start demanding the integration of interpersonal skills in the classroom and enforce family conversation and interaction at the dinner table, our society will become more and more detached and estranged from important social and community involvement.
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SOLUTIONS:
Practice Family Communication at the dinner table
Lobby your Parent Association and school for the integration of
Interpersonal Communication Skills
Contact Porchia to offer her 8-week Emotional Intelligence Workshop
at your school.
Schedule Porchia's Introductory Emotional Intelligence Seminar For Your Parent Association
Pay-It-Forward Program supporting your school's fund raising efforts, a WIN-WIN-WIN for child, parents and school.
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