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Teens nowadays want to be more independent. On the other hand, others can argue that some parents don't want their kids to be too independent.  In the words of Suren Ramasubbu co-founder and CEO of Mobicip, the creator of the most popular parental controls and internet filtering service for smartphones, tablets, and computers. “ A recent research paper reported in The Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, which examined parenting changes among thousands of parents of 16-year-old teens in 1986 and fairly similar parents in 2006, found that recent parents have greater expectations in relation to going to school, doing homework, being polite, telling parents where they will be going, etc. and monitor children more the 1986 parents.”

The relationship between parents and children is getting distant. Parents put lots of pressure on them which make them more distant and want to make them move out. Children want to be more independent. Parents are expecting more and more from their children.

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Buy a house or rent a house which is better 

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Buy a house or rent a house which is better 

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Buy a house or rent a house, which is more difficult. This is the most raised questions by college students. Some argue that renting is a better option because they don’t need to pay so much. From this perspective, leasing a house in California has benefits. Most leases include water, trash, electricity bills.  Bill Conerly, a corporate economist (PG&E, Nerco, First Interstate Bank) and then entered consulting and helps business leaders connect the dots between the economy and business decisions. “When you rent, the landlord picks up the taxes, insurance, maintenance and sometimes utilities…. Housing seems to be a great investment in good times because it is usually leveraged to a great degree.”

Even though landlords can increase the rent of your home, they still have some benefits. For example the landlord collects all of the taxes and some of the landlords pay for the utility bills like water, electricity, and trash bills. The only thing is that your won’t get equity. When buying a home you have pay for the tax and all the utility bills. Also you get equity. The prices of buying a house has increased than renting a home.

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This project came from a series of essays written in class about the Guide to the 21st Century. This guide is mainly about how to overcome the anxiety in a college student and their fear of losing privacy or whether renting a home is better or buying a home is better and if their relationship with their parents is distant or not. There are lots of types of anxiety: PTSD, Social Anxiety, OCD, Panic disorder. About 40% of the college students have anxiety disorders like these.

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I am a 19 year old college student who has some connection with all of these 21st century problems. I am going to tell you guys how to overcome these. It is easy just stay with your parents and you will get your own privacy when you. Thats it ! Just kidding. About 1 in 5 college students will have anxiety for any thing not just these topics. Anxiety for all of these are called GAD (generalized anxiety disorder)

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Privacy, Are We Going To Lose Some Of It?  

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Privacy, Are We Going To Lose Some Of It?  

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A controversial issue has been whether technology development is a contributory factor to an invasion of privacy. On the other hand, others can argue that the information that we use in a smartphone or recent technology we can easily get into our debt and credit cards account, and money related accounts like uber or lyft. In the words of Jacob Morgan, author, speaker, and futurist “Our information is already out there and regardless of how hard we scream that we want it back or want it to be secure, it’s not going to happen…ever. ” According to this view, we have already put our information and have accepted for the “term and conditions”out there in the world.

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Technology is becoming more part of our lives lately. And it tracks where we go. All of us have laptops. Even laptops track we ever go. When we get used to technology, it also gets used to us. There was a research done by Pew Internet and American Life Project more and more adults who use multiple phones are rising. When getting used to technology we tend to save personal info too. Julie Myhre, content manager in NextAdvisor, Inc. explains  “This personal information can include anything from your Social Security number to your bank account or credit card numbers. I understand that we all need that personal information from time to time, however, it's ignorant of us to think that the information is safe...”

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Some times this is a beneficial thing is that we get to know what other people are doing. In China, there is an app where it shows which or your neighbors are ranking in debt. This is a way for the Chinese government to keep 1.3 billion people connected by tracking their behavior. Andy Meek, a reporter in Memphis, supplies articles to outlets like Fast Company and The Guardian “... the new system is also blocking tons of people from booking flights and train rides. " Among some of the other ways, you can draw scrutiny to yourself and potentially a negative score is if you reportedly play an excessive amount of video games and post fake news online.

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Technology has its benefits and disadvantages. The benefits are that you are connected with the people around you. The disadvantages are that everyone can see what we are doing and where we are. The disadvantages are that we are no longer private, all of our information is public.

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Teens and College Students | Anxiety and Depression Association of America, ADAA

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Teens and college students can easily feel anxious trying to juggle school, work, friends, and family while trying to figure out the rest of your life. Most of us bounce back. But frequent, intense, and uncontrollable anxiety that interferes with your daily routines may be a sign of an anxiety disorder.

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A recent article in the New York Times reported that 60 percent of today's college students suffer from anxiety disorders and psychological distress (Wolverton, 2019).

What has caused this dramatic escalation of anxiety in our young people? Some explanations might be early childhood trauma, a biochemical imbalance, or the stress of economic insecurity and political polarization in today's world. And yet earlier generations managed to thrive during the Depression, World War II, Watergate, and the Vietnam War.

Research points to three changes in our culture that could be undermining the mental health of today's college students.

1. An increase in materialistic values such as consumerism and the centrality of financial success. Research by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA shows that college students' number one value is now "being well off financially," while for students in the 1960s it was "developing a meaningful philosophy of life." This increase in materialistic values appeared in the 1980s and has remained constant (Astin, 1998; Eagan, Stolzenberg, Zimmerman, Aragon, Sayson, & Rios-Aguilar, 2017). Research has associated materialistic values and extrinsic goals with anxiety, narcissism, depression, and illness (Emmons, 2003).

2. The rising cost of college. In the past, higher education was considered a public good, not a private product. Until the 1980s, it was supported by state funding and federal grants, making it affordable for nearly all students who had the aptitude and motivation to attend college. For example, in the 1960s, tuition at the University of California was $86.50 a semester; it was only $35 a semester at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Students could support themselves and work their way through college with part-time jobs-taking charge of their lives and embracing agency and adulthood in their late teens and early 20s. Today, while two-year community colleges remain relatively affordable, the University of California's tuition, for instance, is $13,225 a year; private college tuition can be $50,000 and more. With room and board another $20,000, college has become out of reach for many of today's young people (UCLA undergraduate admissions, 2019; Powell, 2018). Students look to their parents to pay for college, remaining economically and emotionally dependent on them, which may leave them unprepared for adult life.

3. Delayed adulthood and external locus of control. The high cost of college reinforces a pattern of developmental delay that psychologist James Arnett (2000) has called "emerging adulthood." At an age when earlier generations were making their own decisions and exercising greater control over their lives, many college students remain, by their own admission, "kids," relying on their parents to pay their bills, choose their majors, and even do their homework.

Raised by well-meaning "helicopter parents" who constantly control and protect their children, many young people have been denied opportunities to exercise initiative and do things for themselves. It is no wonder that many of them experience overwhelming stress when they face the challenges of college life (Egan et al, 2017).

Psychologist Jean Twenge (2000; Twenge, Zhang, & Im, 2004) has found an increase in both anxiety and external locus of control in today's college students. In our research, my colleagues and I have found that students with controlling parents have a high degree of emotional immaturity as well as an external locus of control, believing that their lives are controlled by people and forces outside themselves (Dreher, Feldman, & Numan, 2014).

And sadly, today's college students display a more external locus of control than 80 percent of college students in the 1960s-a disturbing finding, since external locus of control has been linked to poor physical and mental health, anxiety, and depression (Twenge, 2004; Chorpita, 2001).

Traditionally, the college years have been a time of dynamic personal growth, a time when students developed their adult identities by exploring new ideas and opportunities and exercising greater agency, responsibility, and control over their lives. Unfortunately, today materialistic values, college costs, and controlling parents are impairing this vital developmental period-and may be undermining our students' ability to flourish.

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This post is for informational purposes and should not substitute for psychotherapy with a qualified professional.
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Why Do So Many College Students Have Anxiety Disorders?

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A recent article in the New York Times reported that 60 percent of today's college students suffer from anxiety disorders and psychological distress (Wolverton, 2019). What has caused this dramatic escalation of anxiety in our young people? Some explanations might be early childhood trauma, a biochemical imbalance, or the stress of economic insecurity and political polarization in today's world.

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In this episode Jake sits down and chats with Matt Dutcher and Lauren Penksa on student life on campus. They examine everything from mental health, drug and alcohol habits, and how they deal with challenges.

College is a stressful time and students can expect to deal with a variety of expected and unexpected stressors through their college careers. While stress sources don't necessarily cause anxiety disorders and/or mental illnesses but they can worsen symptoms.

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Podcast Episode 34: College Students Mental Health

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In this episode Jake sits down and chats with Matt Dutcher and Lauren Penksa on student life on campus. They examine everything from mental health, drug and alcohol habits, and how they deal with challenges. College is a stressful time and students can exp...