The Bad Boy 39;s Girl Read Online

[Marva Richardt]

Whileit is true that on average girls develop speech and language skills earlier than boys, the reason behind this is more complicated than the simple fact that girls mature more quickly in general. In fact, many contributing factors determine whether someone may be delayed in their speech and language skills, with gender/sex having only a minor influence. In general, boys are more likely to develop a speech or language delay than girls.

Research in Britain shows that on average, females have a significantly larger vocabulary, they acquire skills and words more quickly and they also are ahead of males in their gesturing skills. Overall, girls also begin speaking an average of 1 month sooner than boys. It is important to note that these differences can be minimal, almost insignificant, and do not necessarily mean that boys are delayed as much as they simply fall behind girls.

Play: While this may seem like an obvious thing to do, play can be an incredibly powerful tool to help promote the development of speech and language skills in children. Whether you engage in pretend play, role-playing, or working together to build a structure, these interactions are the foundational building blocks of communication skills.

Read: The joy of books and reading is a wonderful thing to encourage and promote with your child. Take time to read together every day, and keep a supply of easily accessible and age-appropriate books available to your child.

Speech therapy can be a very helpful and supportive resource, even for children who are developing as they should. Our online speech therapists are highly knowledgeable and possess a huge repertoire of tasks, games, and activities that will help guide and support your child as they develop essential speech and language skills.

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand the experiences American teens are having with social media. For this analysis, we surveyed 1,316 U.S. teens. The survey was conducted online by Ipsos from April 14 to May 4, 2022.

This research was reviewed and approved by an external institutional review board (IRB), Advarra, which is an independent committee of experts that specializes in helping to protect the rights of research participants.

Ipsos recruited the teens via their parents who were a part of its KnowledgePanel, a probability-based web panel recruited primarily through national, random sampling of residential addresses. The survey is weighted to be representative of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who live with parents by age, gender, race, ethnicity, household income and other categories.

This report also includes quotes from teen focus groups. Pew Research Center worked with PSB Insights to conduct four live, online focus groups with a total of 16 U.S. 13- to 17-year-olds. The focus groups were conducted Jan. 12-13, 2022.

While these youth describe the benefits they get from social media, this positivity is not unanimous. Indeed, 38% of teens say they feel overwhelmed by all the drama they see on social media, while about three-in-ten say these platforms have made them feel like their friends are leaving them out of things (31%) or have felt pressure to post content that will get lots of likes or comments (29%). Another 23% say these platforms make them feel worse about their own life.

Teen girls report encountering some of these pressures at higher rates. Some 45% of girls say they feel overwhelmed because of all the drama on social media, compared with 32% of boys. Girls are also more likely than boys to say social media has made them feel like their friends are leaving them out of things (37% vs. 24%) or worse about their own lives (28% vs. 18%).

When asked how often they decide not to post on social media out of fear of it being using against them, older teen girls stand out. For example, half of 15- to 17-year-old girls say they often or sometimes decide not to post something on social media because they worry others might use it to embarrass them, compared with smaller shares of younger girls or boys.

Even as teens tend to view the impact of social media on their own lives in more positive than negative terms, they are more critical of its influence on their peers. While 9% of teens think social media has had a mostly negative effect on them personally, that share rises to 32% when the same question is framed about people their age.

But this survey reveals that only a minority of teens say they have been civically active on social media in the past year via one of the three means asked about at the time of the survey. One-in-ten teens say they have encouraged others to take action on political or social issues that are important to them or have posted a picture to show their support for a political or social issue in the past 12 months. Some 7% say the same about using hashtags related to a political or social cause on social media during this period. Taken together, 15% of teens have engaged in at least one of these activities on social media in the past 12 months.

While majorities of both Democrats and Republicans have not used social media in this way, there are some notable partisan differences among those who engage in activism. For example, 14% of teens who identify as Democrats or who lean toward the Democratic Party say they have used social media to encourage others to take action on political or social issues that are important to them in the past 12 months, compared with 6% of teens who are Republicans or GOP leaners. And larger shares of Democrats than Republicans say they have posted pictures or used hashtags to show support for a political or social issue in the past year. In total, Democratic teens are twice as likely as Republican teens to have engaged in any of these activities during this time (20% vs. 10%).

Not only do small shares of teens participate in these types of activities on social media, relatively few say these platforms play a critical role in how they interact with political and social issues.

About one-in-ten or fewer teens say social media is extremely or very important to them personally when it comes to exposing them to new viewpoints, getting involved with issues that are important to them, finding other people who share their views, helping them figure out their own views on an issue or giving them a venue to express their political opinions.

Just as Democratic teens are more likely than Republican teens to engage in these forms of online activism, they also see social media as a more integral tool for civic engagement. For example, 18% of Democratic teens say social media is extremely or very important to them when it comes to exposing them to new points of view, compared with 8% of Republican teens. Democrats are also more likely than Republicans to say these platforms are at least very important to them for getting involved with issues that are important to them, finding others who share their views or helping them figure out their own way of thinking.

And when asked about what people should do more broadly, Democratic teens (22%) are more likely than Republican teens (12%) to say that regardless of whether they engage in online activism themselves, it is very or extremely important for people to speak out about political or social issues on social media.

Teens share how different platforms serve different purposes as they navigate online life and that using these platforms can lead to a variety of emotions and experiences, from anxiety to excitement and from improved social connections to bullying:2

My kids have always shared a room. They are now ages 9 (boy) & 6.5 (girl). We thought we would separate them this summer, but whenever we bring it up, both kids beg us not to give them their own rooms. We are not in any hurry mainly b/c we use the 3rd bedroom as our study and will have to reconfigure the living room into a living room/study when the kids get separate rooms. Is there any general wisdom about the age at which two kids of different genders should get their own roooms? I'm happy to let them share until they ask otherwise, but perhaps someone knows better than I? Thanks, Two Kids, Small House

I have a colleague with 3 children, the eldest a girl, the middle child a boy, and the youngest a girl. They all slept in the same bedroom. At age 13, the eldest moved into her own room, finally needing a little space, while the other children were about 10 and 8 at that time. This worked well for them, as the children preferred to be in the same room together for all these years. Individual families might have different preferences, of course. So I'd go with what the siblings AND the parents are most comfortable with overall in each situation and not worry about any set ''rules'' or opinions. kb

Truly your children really love to be around each other. They will let you know when they need space. Later in life they will be there for each other, which is what we all want for our children. An older sister who shared a room with her brother till she went off to college...we love each other dearly now. Felicia

my kids, now ages 13 (daughter) and 15 (son) shared a room until 10 and 12. when they were young they loved having someone in the room with them at night and waking up with someone there. as they got older they spent hours laughing and telling silly bed time stories to one another. then they transitioned to sharing their thoughts, ideas, and dreams (silly ones of course). now, 13 and 15 they are really close, share chores, help each other with homework, and ask each other for advice. it's healthy for kids to learn to share and bond at a young age and sharing a room is one way of doing it. nancy

I did a survey on this subject about six months ago, asking every single family I knew with a 10-12 year old boy and a 8-10 year old daughter about their bedroom arrangement. I was pleasantly surprised to find that of the 9 or 10 families, only one (actually that one had a 13 year old boy) did NOT share a room. No one had current plans to change that configuration. My kids, now 12 and 9, have two rooms between them. Even though they often want to get away from each other during the day, they want to continue sleeping in the same room and use the other room as their ''office''. The ''office'' has a bed in it for whenever they are ready, but I see no signs of their readiness to give up what they call the security and comfort of having the other there at night. Now our new big dog has joined them, and all three are like bugs in a rug. I'll wait for their cue.

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