"Social Calls":
"In high school, popularity isn't a contest ---- it's war", a line stated by Eddie Griffin in the comedy movie, "New Guy", about the high school nerd destroying the popularity-obsessed social system after being released from imprisonment. As much as "The New Guy" was just a motion picture, the conflict of the script's plot, exists in actuality.Students spend more time in school than at home. And social popularity is most influenced in the 5 -day meets in school. Bill Hocter, a local psychiatrist, says, "Adolescence is the time when we start to separate individually more from our families and establish our own identities". School aides, teachers, administrators and classmates are all that fill the role of a student's peers. And to cordially fit in with peers is a task that still has difficulty being performed. Reinventing an image to fit in can sometimes result to extreme actions and the factors may include "fear of loneliness, poor judgment, lack of parental supervision, and failing to recognize one's self worth", as said by local psychiatrist, Bill Hocter, M.D. The decision to belong to a certain grou
Try to be open-minded when you deal with other teenagers. Teens need someone who won't judge them based on their social status. "Ideally, people would be able to give and accept constructive criticism so that the alienated person can make some changes to fit in better or find another group. In practice, this doesn't happen very often", Hocter advises. Hocter also recommends to, "Find other friends, take up an interesting hobby, or volunteer to help people who are worse off than you." Don't anguish about feeling "left out" of a particular group. Tolentino says, "I would try to blend in or just walk away". Don't try and force yourself to be friends with people you are not comfortable with or vise versa. "It's tough to give a general answer to this as a number of causes for the problem may exist or coexist in the alienated person or the group from which she is alienated (poor social skills, snobbishness, prejudice, general meanness, etc.), says Hocter. Teenagers need to realize that there is a difference between "popularity" amongst the "cool" kids and genuine popularity amongst everyone. Being popular does not mean putting others
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