I'm trying to teach my girls to derive their take on ANYTHING via facts and evidence. Seek the truth. Understand what a credible source is. Study the constructs of the scientific method to apply an objective stepwise procedure when sifting through garbage for that one degree of truth. I don't believe that we, as adults, have mastered this. I'm stunned at the disregard for credibility. Adults in our lives on social media are notorious for inflammatory rhetoric that holds no truth. It's lazy. It's lazy and demonstrably embarrassing when you consider that THIS is the lowered standard we are putting out there purposely and it defines us. Embarrassing.
I've worked in the jails, in the in-patient psych units. I've been told every crazy story you can imagine. True or not, the agenda is to mold a certain perspective in order to gain trust not earned. These were my patients. Patients or not, people lie most of the time. MOST OF THE TIME. A story by anyone is littered with untruths, little silver linings to an otherwise mundane, unglorifying tale that when beefed up, is way better. Or timelines/facts fade with the decades, and a story once told with more truths attached is now a fiction filled tale of adventure and positive strokes. Please.
I think we can do better as a species. It's imperative we do, or we are going to produce generations of people who perform the way adults do on social media. Consider that. The examples that kids see today from adults are almost exclusively from social media. Of course there's the occasional coach, tutor, outstanding teacher, after school clubs, hobbies taught and nurtured by patient experienced adults, but for the most part, it's social media. And this is horrifically embarrassing. For all of us.
Be Better? Limit your social media time to 1/2 hour a day? Even that seems excessive and it's not nearly representative of the average time an adult wastes on social media.
Consider your actions and your posts as cemented references to your character. Kids are watching and learning. Consider that, at least.
I've worked in the jails, in the in-patient psych units. I've been told every crazy story you can imagine. True or not, the agenda is to mold a certain perspective in order to gain trust not earned. These were my patients. Patients or not, people lie most of the time. MOST OF THE TIME. A story by anyone is littered with untruths, little silver linings to an otherwise mundane, unglorifying tale that when beefed up, is way better. Or timelines/facts fade with the decades, and a story once told with more truths attached is now a fiction filled tale of adventure and positive strokes. Please.
I think we can do better as a species. It's imperative we do, or we are going to produce generations of people who perform the way adults do on social media. Consider that. The examples that kids see today from adults are almost exclusively from social media. Of course there's the occasional coach, tutor, outstanding teacher, after school clubs, hobbies taught and nurtured by patient experienced adults, but for the most part, it's social media. And this is horrifically embarrassing. For all of us.
Be Better? Limit your social media time to 1/2 hour a day? Even that seems excessive and it's not nearly representative of the average time an adult wastes on social media.
Consider your actions and your posts as cemented references to your character. Kids are watching and learning. Consider that, at least.
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