{"id":18144,"date":"2017-03-26T16:29:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T21:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lern.org\/?post_type=article&#038;p=10107"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:21:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:21:14","slug":"great-kids-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/great-kids-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"(Great) \u201cKids These Days\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kids-and-carCrop.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10108\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10108 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kids-and-carCrop-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"?\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMore good news about teenagers these days, with a positive implication for your lifelong learning program.<br \/>\nBut if you are a grumpy older person trying to find more reasons why \u201ckids these days\u201d are resulting in a massive decline in civilization, you won\u2019t be happy.<br \/>\nHere\u2019s the news:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Crime among teens today is down compared to teens from previous generations (yours).<\/li>\n<li>Intelligence among teens is higher compared to teens from previous generations (yours). IQ goes up about 3 points per decade, according to the Flynn Effect, named after Prof. James Flynn of New Zealand.<\/li>\n<li>This month researchers are reporting a new theory that the rise in cellphone use among teenagers is the reason why teen drug and alcohol use has been dropping for the last ten years.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There is clearly a correlation.\u00a0 Some researchers note that cell phones give teens:<br \/>\n-Stimulation and excitement<br \/>\n-Ways to test boundaries<br \/>\n-Sense of independence, all things teens have sought or needed throughout history.<br \/>\nGreat news for everyone except the grumpies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More good news about teenagers these days, with a positive implication for your lifelong learning program. But if you are a grumpy older person trying to find more reasons why \u201ckids these days\u201d are resulting in a massive decline in civilization, you won\u2019t be happy. Here\u2019s the news: Crime among teens today is down compared<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18723,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18144\/revisions\/18723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}