Digital_Natives

Go With The Flow: 10 Ways to Easily Engage Teenagers

One of my axioms about working with teenagers is: “Adolescence is like gravity,  It is much easier to work with it than against it.” A lot of the talk about dealing with teenagers focuses on how to combat or overcome the forces of adolescence.  As adults it can be easy to think of the teenager [...]

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Why Mobile Phones Are Essential For Teenagers?

We are all very familiar with teenagers who absolutely must have the latest fashion item or trendy gadget that is taking the world by storm.  It was true when I was a teenager (Reebok Pumps or Walkmans anyone?) and nothing much has changed.  As long as teenagers have access to money there will be people [...]

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Parents & Teenagers: 5 Must Have Conversations (ii)

This is the second part of two part post on conversations parents absolutely must have with their teenagers, preferably  before the teen years. I want to acknowledge before continuing that talking about these topics will happen more effectively as a series of short conversations over time rather than one long conversation.  These short conversations are [...]

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Generation Z & Online Gaming

Today’s kids are playing games on consoles, computers, portables and online more than ever before. Remember when computer games were all about playing Pac Man or Space Invaders at the local  arcade? Or when the ultimate in home entertainment was having an Atari console? How about when things got really high tech and portable games [...]

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Keeping Generation Z Safe Online

If you were to install a pool in your backyard you would of course install a fence around the pool, especially if you had young children.  While the fence is a necessary safety requirement of owning a pool it is not the best way to protect your child from drowning.  They won’t only encounter swimming [...]

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Distracted Teenage Drivers

Do you live or work with a teenager who is a licensed driver? Ever wondered how focused, or not focused, they are when they are driving? Well here is some disturbing news. In a recent survey of over 2000 teenager drivers between the ages of 16- 19 nearly 9 out of 10 admitted to driving [...]

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Teenagers & The Internet: Who Is Mastering Who?

The more you practise the better you get at something!  The more you use a tool the greater your skill is.  Eventually you become a master of what ever the skill or pursuit is. Unless of course you are a teenager and that tool in question is the Internet. The accepted wisdom of our age [...]

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Are Teenagers Leaving Facebook?

Is this the beginning of the next big switch or just one of many ebbs and flows to come? In the last couple of months the internet has been awash with reports of Facebook fatigue.  Despite reaching more than the 500 million user mark recently there does appear to be growing levels of dissatisfaction with [...]

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Bieber Beats Gaga: Pop Culture & The Rise of Social Media

Stop the presses! Amazing news! Justin Bieber has done it! Done what you may ask? The 16 year old Canadian sensation racked up more than 246 million views of his music video Baby on Friday, eclipsing Lady Gaga‘s Bad Romance which had a mere 245.6 million views. Maybe this doesn’t leave you in a state [...]

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Teenager Mobile Phone Habits: Are We Keeping Up?

I have come across this great graphic a few times now so I thought I would share it with you. It is created by Flowtown and based on data published by Pew Research which I have referred to in an earlier post.  I wanted to share this graphic, because it presents the data really clearly, [...]

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