Frequent Social Networking Associated with Poor Functioning Among Children [pdf]

Re:Frequent Social Networking Associated with Poor Functioni... by danharaj on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @12:17PM (#10426467)

It's not surprising. Who remembers what being a teenager is like? My 'favorite' aspect of growing up is how stringently regulated waking/sleeping hours are while one's circadian clock is fluctuating wildly. I am pretty sure I did not get any good nights of sleep in high school, and that made me miserable. I self medicated with a lot of things. A lot of them were garbage, like junk food or Internet forums. Some of them were good for me, like an obsessive reading habit. How much of 'successfully' growing up is just having the 'right' escapes from oppressive school and family structures?

Being a teenager is like being extruded out of a rigid nozzle into the mold of what dysfunctional adults think a functional adult is like. The process itself compromises the child's development.

This study will be used as fodder to make the nozzle more rigid, the mold more byzantine. Give the child no escape. They must become a proper adult.

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Re:Frequent Social Networking Associated with Poor Functioni... by MichaelGG on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @02:49PM (#10427646)

It's idiotic how early schools start. Some places wanted to start at 7am, bus at 6am, so kids would need to be up at 5am. Ended up hiring a teacher directly (early grade school so still feasible[1]) and starting at 9am. Works great. Plus my daughter and I can stay up "late" (10pm) playing games whenever we feel like it.

I understand some people want schools as daycare, but separate that out.

Also:

>2015

>MySpace

Hmm?

1: Cost of tuition for 2 kids covers teacher's salary, and other parents are interested enough I could easily turn a profit if desired

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Re:Frequent Social Networking Associated with Poor Functioni... by redblacktree on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:35PM (#10428490)

Many schools start early in order to accommodate afternoon sports practice.

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Re:Frequent Social Networking Associated with Poor Functioni... by sliverstorm on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @03:49PM (#10428135)

"Schools as daycare" is a bit of an oversimplification. For starters, many people have rigid work schedules and do not have the luxury of getting their kid to school at an arbitrary time.

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Re:Frequent Social Networking Associated with Poor Functioni... by Spivak on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @05:03PM (#10428680)

> For starters, many people have rigid work schedules and do not have the luxury of getting their kid to school at an arbitrary time.

Based on this statement alone you can conclude that schools function as daycare. Why can't your nanny take your kids to school? Because you likely don't have a nanny, and don't see the need for one as school is a sufficient substitute. You could also say you can't afford one but then by demanding the school operate during work hours you're passing the cost of daycare onto the school system.

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Re:Frequent Social Networking Associated with Poor Functioni... by someone7x on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @12:47PM (#10426650)

Add to that how poor the feedback mechanisms are; by the time a parent sees a child become an adult it may be too late to apply that learning to another child.

Child-rearing is a hard problem.

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Re:Frequent Social Networking Associated with Poor Functioni... by anon4 on Thursday October 22, 2015 @11:32AM (#10432789)

What if we write down that knowledge and pass it to the next generation, letting them iterate and refine the ways of parenting?

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Re:Frequent Social Networking Associated with Poor Functioni... by cbhl on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @12:49PM (#10426663)

In Ontario, a lot of effort (TV ads, billboards, etc.) goes into Kids Help Phone (kidshelpphone.ca), which is a call center staffed with counsellors to help kids and teens. But kids and teens are moving away from having a landline telephone in their bedroom, and towards smartphones and iPods and Internet connected devices. If this study helps make those services easier for the current generation of kids and teens to access, then that's worthwhile.

What I find concerning is that overall Internet/computer use isn't a measure in the study. The conclusion ("health service providers should monitor SNSs more to provide support to youth") seems reasonable, but it isn't going to be enough to cover all the ways a kid could demonstrate a cry for help (e.g. tumblr blogs, fanfic involving people from school).

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Re:Frequent Social Networking Associated with Poor Functioni... by redblacktree on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @12:46PM (#10426647)

Something like this?

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zosQ90T3srs/UeqiEbif-kI/AAAAAAAAB...

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Re:Frequent Social Networking Associated with Poor Functioni... by anon4 on Thursday October 22, 2015 @11:19AM (#10432714)

I do. I didn't have much trouble with waking up on time, actually. Though by the time I was 18 my sleep time gradually got later and later, until I was actually missing sleep for real. Then again, my school was about half an hour away by bus, so I'd wake up at 6:30 and be there by 7:30 and very rarely classes started at 7:30.

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