Introducing: TEEN GIRL FACES TIME IN THE SAND
They buy into the electronic Hall of Mirrors where everyone is watching and comparing themselves, trying to find some piece of wisdom in a crowd or mob, not sure how not to stop suckling from an alternative reality not their own... (excerpt)
On
one hand, there should be no reason for a story like this for teenage girls in
the process of fulfilling their natural roles as young women. On the other hand, this story is essential
for every teenage girl to read and understand the significance of making a
smart choice with respect to her Timeline.
Who
doesn’t have a daughter or sister or know a young teenage girl who seems
attached to her cell phone but who is really on the leash? Who is leading whom?
There
are three reasons to read this e-book:
1.
How to stop social media from taking advantage of a rash and brash teenage
brain still in development
2.
How to start looking at value of Time and power of choice as a super power tool
to avoid making bad mistakes that may affect the total Timeline
3.
How to use diagrams as a base for discussion of growing up in a mass media
world personified here as a Giant Clown Face of epic proportion.
A
main challenge is the difficulty of talking about the value of a Timeline with
teenagers who often see Time as a gift of beauty, vitality and invincibility
with no visible ending. It is a normal
to trust that success will be delivered with age and purpose in mind. Youth is a time for curiosity, exuberance and
self-discovery as well as mental and social development.
However, in a brief matter of a decade or so,
there has been a transformation of subjects and thoughts unlike anything
experienced in human history where Internet Communication has created Great
Changes in our society and culture forever with no safety nets for young
brains. Teen girls, especially, are
surrounded by a brand new vocabulary and motivation in a Selfie Domain with no
training or denotation.
And
therein are two problems. First, a general lack of knowledge how to cope with
this new subject matter. Usually, any new subject requires learning with clear
objectives like any other study; preparation, asking questions, analyzing content,
decision making and evaluation.
Unfortunately, there is no training for young girls at any level to gain
any kind of understanding much less mastery over these overwhelming changes. Ignorance and confusion are a lethal mixture.
Young
developing brains naturally respond to curiosity, endless stimuli and
challenging contrarian messages and too often they are left victims through no
fault of their own. There is nothing
more tragic than a 14 year old girl who is influenced to make bad choices and
pays for those mistakes for the rest of her life surrounded by negative
circumstances. A bright beautiful spirit lies broken and, in some cases, can
die.
The
second problem, based on lack of not understanding the context, is how young
girls are taken advantage of by mass media which brainwashes their minds with
adult prerogatives. For example, how
unnatural is it for young girls to sexualize their bodies to be
"LIKE" adult images or role play? Part of this assault is their
addiction to their cell phones and manufactured Selfies.
The
challenge in helping to overcome these problems is to show teenagers the
importance of making a smart choice as a pivot point on the future Timeline
instead of thinking of their choice as a given right to follow their own sense
of direction and belonging. They are
natural risk-takers, and don't like to be preached to help avoid life's bad turns
when engaged midstream in huge unprecedented changes all around them night and
day.
They
would rather learn from their peers.
The
key question is asked in chapter one: "What if, you had the power to see
the future and how your actions today may affect it? Would you make the same
choices today?"
And
so, this story is told of a young adolescent girl's journey. Amazingly, it covers a period of three days
of discussion and contemplation to turn her life around, with a nightmarish dream
included. It follows her struggles in a
hyper media environment, the realization of her rash and brash adolescent
brain, her descent into drug addiction, her nightmares of media control, and
her gradual awareness of the transient TIME measured not by numbers, counting
hours or days, but with blocks and circles of experience as first drawn in the
sand and explained by her Grannie.
She
learns about a super power tool as a simple exercise to respect Time itself, as
if it could be held in her hands, to help make smart choices in immediate kinds
of situations. This tool or idea, simple
as it is, becomes even more powerful in the context of normal social rites of
passage into adulthood and surviving in a social media Selfie circus.
The
time is right to discuss these problems and solutions.
Comments are always welcome,
Annemarie
New website: https://helpfulmindstreamforchanges.com
Excerpt: One Selfie swipe will instantly show me images and words with as brief an engagement as I wish. There is no debate; it's not a relationship. It can show me ignorance, intimidation or threats, bombast, or absolute fakery. It is normal to favor only cosmetic standards with plastic interventions and sensational spectacles where regular common everyday things and people no longer matter.
Is this what communication has flat lined to … short term attention spans, immediate reaction, fear and anxiety and judgment calls without facts?
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