A Lacking of Social Skills in Today’s Teens
I spend a fair amount of time with teenage girls and I have notice that some have great social skills and others are lacking.
Last Friday I got to spend the day with a great group of girls at Copper Canyon Academy. I presented 2 workshops about loving yourself from the inside out. Even thought some of these girls have issues they are dealing with, all in all they were very respectful, and their social skills seemed to be in tact. I have also presented workshop at another school here in town and notice an extreme difference. They were, not all of them but quite a few of them were very rude and non-engaging. I started to look at what the differences could be, after talking with staff about this very issue.
The school that was so disrespectful didn’t have strict rules, and the teens where running the show. The other school where the teens were more engaging and a lot more polite had a very strict curriculum, and the teachers and staff was obviously running the school and the teens knew it.
I’m not saying to be militant with the way you raise your teens, but I do believe that if they think they are the boss, they probably won’t know how to handle the authority, and it will come off bossy, and rude. This is where talking to our teens about social skills is so important. We don’t have to rule with a heavy hand if we are communicating with our teens.
I would love your feedback as a parent and a teen on what makes teens have good social skills.
Tags: bossy teens, communicate, disrespectful teens, polite teens, teen social skills