Parenting: Are Online Relationships Healthy for Young People?
More and more these days, young people are establishing and maintaining relationships online. These “cyber” relationships often arise because parents, out of fear for their children’s safety, no longer allow them to be “free range” to congregate in local parks, at malls, and on street corners. The only place that they have permission to “meet […]
Read MoreParenting: Is Technology Changing the Way Children Develop Relationships?
Popular culture and technology are redefining the meaning of relationships; what relationships are, how they develop and are maintained, and how many relationships we can have. Popular culture, for example, suggests that love can be found in a few weeks on shows like The Bachelor, real family’s lives mirror shows such as Kate Plus 8 […]
Read MorePersonal Growth: The Happiest People in the World Live in…
…Latin America. Why? Not because they are the wealthiest, are the best educated, feel the safest, or have the most stuff. Instead, because the most significant contributor to happiness is the quality of one’s relationships and Latin Americans value relationships immensely.
Read MoreTechnology: Relationships 2.0: How Technology is Redefining How We Connect
Of all the areas of life that computer and communications technology seems to be impacting the most is its influence on relationships. Mobile phones, texting, facebook, and Twitter are just a few of the ways in which relationships are being redefined, established, and maintained by technology. We have entered a new era of Relationships 2.0. […]
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