Keep your child stress free — Parents are you listening?

Recently Witblox R&D team came across a study which says that the rate of suicide is maximum in the age group 15 to 29. The final four years of teenage adolescence is a tough time. Children in this age group go through a lot of changes as in both mental & physical. But the recent uprise of social media interaction has given rise to a new set of extra problems. The fakeness of the virtual society is affecting the lives of our children. Here are some studies.

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine says,
Teens spending more time on social media seems to have more sleeping disorders & reported symptoms of depression.

UCLA Brain Mapping Center says,
A study of teens between the age 13–18 showed that a high number of likes on social media photos increases the activity in the reward centre of the brain. So more likes mean more good feeling, but less or no like can create stress.

Increasing time spent scrolling across social media can result in symptoms of anxiety and/or depression. Here are some of the reasons.

1. Cyberbullying — Girls are targeted mostly but boys are also at risk. It may result in serious levels of depression, anxiety, and an elevated risk of suicidal thoughts.
2. Game of likes — Likes on photos or any form of posts on social media create a trends towards doing the same for over & over again, which sometime leads to altering their appearance, engaging in negative behaviors, and accepting risky social media challenges.
3. Less human interaction — The next generation is losing the idea of compassion. When teens spend more time ‘online’ than they do in person they fail to build empathy.
4. Fake Identity — With millions of fake profiles who might be the friend of your friends are online just to steal your pictures, identity and data. There is no privacy on social media, it’s free because we all are a part of their business.
5. Poison of comparison — Everything that we perceive on social media becomes a point of comparison with our own self. Children do this more often in their growing age.

Source of information is psycom.net