8 May 2025 09:00
Why Have Our Teenagers Become So Socially Awkward?
Description: In this new podcast, Dr. Jordan describes how technology and social media have caused teenagers and young adults to feel so socially awkward today. When it comes to creating close connections, girls have evolved from being scuba divers to jet skiers. They used to have in depth conversations/connection (scuba divers) to now have very little connection and racing along alone (jet skiers).
Good resources on this topic:
Look for Dr. Jordan’s new book: Keeping Your Family Grounded When You’re Flying By the Seat of Your Pants, revised and updated edition with an invaluable chapter on technologies and social media and readiness signs for both.
Social Media and Technologies Books:
1) Turkle, Sherry. Alone Together
2) Turkle, Sherry. Reclaiming Conversation
3) Powers, William. Hamlet’s Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the
Digital Age
4) Boyd, Danah. It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
5) McGonigal, Kelly. The Willpower Instinct
6) Siegel, Daniel. Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
7) Haidt, Jonathon. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing
an Epidemic of Mental Illness
2 previous interviews in Raising Daughters of authors on this topic:
Gabriela Nguyen [email protected] Appstinent app: www.appstinent.org
Katherine Johnson Martinko Author of "Childhood Unplugged: How to Get Your Kid Off Screens and Find Balance"; website the analog family [email protected] Substack, After Babel
