PARENTS AND TEEN COMMUNICATION 

     Parenting today is very different than in past thanks to technology. Technology has helped with parenting but it has not really made it easier, with all the problems on social media and the internet, kids today are always staring at a screen and communication with parents have been replaced by tweeting and sharing what's on your mind. Today when it comes to communicating with your parents about personal questions, we don't feel comfortable asking our them without raising some sort of red flag. The most uncomfortable topic a parent and their teen must have is the sex talk commonly known as "The Talk," it is said that 50% of all teens feel uncomfortable talking to their parents about sex and 19% of parents feel the same way. Apart from "The Talk" there are a bunch of other things not discussed by parents that teenagers do; drugs, drinking and driving, reckless behavior, theft, etc., Yes most of these things adults also do but it could have been stopped if they were taught at a young age. Neuroscientist B.J Casey lab at Cornell University suggest "adolescents aren't reckless because they underestimate risks, but because they overestimate rewards—or, rather, find rewards more rewarding than adults do. The reward centers of the adolescent brain are much more active than those of either children or adults." He says that teenagers do stupid reckless things because it thrilling and its even better they have an audience.

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/half-all-teens-feel-uncomfortable-talking-their-parents-about-sex-while-only-19-percent-parents

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