1. Step away from your phone: the new rules of conversation-http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/28/step-away-from-your-phone-the-new-rules-of-conversation
In this article it states and creates a debate on the fact that face to face conversation is slowly dying and the use of mobile phones is getting more and more normal in everyday life along with words and phrases such as 'selfie'. Also apparently now teenagers engage in a practice called 'phubbing', where you maintain eye contact with someone whilst texting another. The article states that people don't like to feel sad, awkward, stressed or being put on the spot and therefore instead of confrontation and conversation, people turn to the digital world to hide from the outside world - their mobile phones. This is why therefore, Sherry Turkle suggests that as parents we should have certain times where children have 'no screens allowed' otherwise, the next generation will grow up with minimal social skills and abilities.
“Because we don’t want that first feeling of sad, we push it away with our phones. So you never feel completely happy or completely sad. You just feel kind of satisfied with your products. And then… you die.”
2. How to talk to anyone: the experts' guide- http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/28/how-to-talk-to-anyone-the-experts-guide
In this article Karen Holford expresses how she thinks you should approach and communicate with children and teenagers. She says that you should ask them specific questions so that they believe you're interested as if you just say 'How was your day?' they don't see how you could be possibly interested. Therefore you ask more specific questions like 'What was the best part about your day?'.
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