Gopnik Today's Adolescent Mind Analysis

Within Schalet’s writing, she gives examples of struggles faced by American teenagers. Kimberly

Name: Chengwen Ren SID: 450537529 Adversity of childhood experiences can influence adulthood negatively, the child abuse is one of the main factors, it can even result from neglect. The previous research found that, the child abuse can strongly affect the individual’s adulthood by physical and mental health issues which can last a long period of time (LaBier, 2013). So, here’s a question: How to avoid the child abuse happen to the children? This article will base on LaBier’s(2014) blog article in the website Psychology Today to discuss the explanation and avoidance of the adversity of childhood experiences.

The influence of textspeak on teenagers' writing is a polarising concept with both fans and critics of texting weighing their opinions. In her essay, "Does Texting Affect Writing?", Michaela Cullington, a previous student of Marywood University in Pennsylvania, outlines her investigation into whether or not texting affects writing. Cullington analyzes the critiques of texting and why critics believe that texting has a detrimental affect on teenager writing. Along with the critics,

While the validity of BPD is now generally accepted, the etiology of the disorder is still in process of being uncovered and better defined (Zanarini & Frankenburg, 1997). The first attempt belongs to three psychodynamic theories as for instance Kernberg (1975) suggested that excessively early aggression of the child has contributed to split his/her positive and negative images, which was caused by real frustrations. These made the pre-borderline child unable to understand and merge the positive/negative images to reach a more realistic and balanced view of him/her and others. Also, according to Adler and Buie (1979), the failure in early mothering has led the child to a failure in developing stable object constancy, as a result of mother’s inconsistency or insensitivity and non-empathy, which led them to develop an unstable view of them and the world, using stress as a coping mechanism.

Conclusion The hypothesis, which is that text messaging has a negative effect on teenage literacy, was proven true by this study. The sub-questions; does texting affect different age groups differently, can the negative effects of texting be avoided, and should texting therefore be discouraged, all aided to the focus question of how text messaging is affecting teenage literacy.

Far reached mental illnesses have had detrimental effects on teen health as Teens are often being prescribed medicine for things that don’t require medication, teens are receiving high dosages of these unnecessary medications, and society being “too soft” on adolescents thus leading to the newly found mental illnesses present in today’s society leading to the spiked suicide rates as a result. While some teens have justifiable mental illnesses that require medication to live a normal life, many individuals abuse this leverage resulting in a bigger problem that they began with. Teenage overmedication has become a growing problem in our day and age, and teens being prescribed unnecessary medicines heightens the problem. Incorrect prescription in teens is quite serious and could have a detrimental effect on the teen’s health. For example, an

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, why this book written by Mark Twain should be on the banned books list in schools and why it is too mature for it’s students. This book is full of situations that honesty students are not able to handle, leaving inappropriate impressions about racism and how to treat people and is going to cause teenagers and young adults to repeat the language and personalities seen in this, to other groups of this century that are fitting now The problem with Adventures of Huckleberry Finn isn’t that it is a bad book, not that maybe it is poorly written or isn’t a learning experience. The fact of the matter is that students do not hold the attention span or mental capacity to be forced to deal with this. While some may use to excuse that high school students may have enough knowledge over these situations, or if explained, people would enjoy the moral of the story more, that is not always the case.

However, others disagree with this because of the impacts it could have on young adult’s lives such as brain development and safety. Young adults everywhere ae confused along with anyone who has been paying attention to the laws affecting young adult’s epically. The laws can be confusing for law makers let alone young adults. According to the New York Times article,” How old is enough?”

Additionally, Hamlet has shown to be quite an immature boy and, for lack of a more articulate phrase, I would tell him to grow up. He conveys this personality through the question, “Are you fair?” (II.i.105) When questioning her virginity his adolescent personality rises to the surface. Another reason I would tell Hamlet to mature is because I was frustrated with the pace of the relationship. While acting insane was likely to protect Ophelia, his actions wounded her instead.

A lot of profanity is used in this book so it’s not appropriate for all ages. But, it is a good book for teens. Some character developments are upsetting too because some characters go back and forth between their old self and their new self and they just end up in a bad position. It’s very upsetting to see this when you as a reader are expecting the character's to learn a lesson after so many tragic events. The last drawback to this book is the inappropriate scenes that you need to have a high level of maturity to understand.

In addition It describes things such as teenage pregnancy, bullying, cyber harassment and many more negative factors of youth. The negativity towards teenagers is in my opinion is really unfair. This show that the writer had bad experiences with young people in the past, but I think it’s unfair that he express his opinions in such negative way.

In “The Coddling of the American Mind”, Lukianoff and Haidt’s discuss how college students have demanded for trigger warnings, warnings issued before a sensitive topic is discussed. Students are asking for this because they want to be exempt when it comes time to discuss such topics. While the authors believe that, providing students with trigger warnings causes them to become safeguarded from controversial topics, and will not benefit them in the future because they will be not be able to constantly avoid sensitive topics. Lukianoff and Haidt describe something similar when they provide the example of a woman who is afraid of elevators. They indicate that if you want her to prolong her fear you should help her avoid them, but if you want to