WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES WHICH A CHILD FACES IN TODAY’S WORLD

I believe the biggest challenges children face in today’s world are trying to identify who they are. Most of a child’s personality stems from the environment they’ve been raised; however, there are so many other influences that come from places such as school, church, social media, etcetera.
Social Media and the internet have a major influence because it’s accessible to just about anyone in the world, and it can supply you with information from almost any subject, which can be a good thing for children, as well as a bad thing. While children are trying to come into who they are, especially at their adolescent state, they can be very influential. Most children are trying to fit into groups that are sometimes not very good for them.
Social media has been a huge challenge for children in today’s society, especially when it comes to bullying and trends. While most children are trying to find their self-identity, they get clothing trends and a range of vocabulary from people they deem popular such as musicians and actors or anyone who they consider to be a celebrity. They try to imitate trends and fashions that they feel will make them cool, popular or more important.
Every child wants to be noticed, liked and loved by other children, so they often feel pressure to get certain material things to feel important so that they could possibly attract more friends. Some children don’t feel as important if they don’t have the latest clothing trends, that is one of the reasons why several schools across the country began having their students wear uniforms so that every student would look the same and no child felt left out.
There is also social media bullying. I was a person that didn’t understand how a person could be bullied on social media. In my generation growing up, we didn’t have the internet social media. When I first heard that there was social media bullying, I couldn’t understand how that could be. I often wondered if a person felt uncomfortable or didn’t like what someone was saying about them on social media, why wouldn’t they just cut off the computer or go to another site. Well, it was explained to me by a few children that they are the generation of social media. It is just part of their being for their generation. They explained, when I was young, if there was an issue or something embarrassing that happened to me, a small group of children might hear about it at my school, and after a while, the hype of it would eventually fade away. In their era, if an embarrassing event occurs, if recorded, it might hit social media for the entire world to see, and it remains forever.
Most social media bullying are from people that are too afraid to communicate in person. They use their computer as a shield to hide behind as they say hurtful things to others. A child feels as if they’re being bullied when a person constantly post things mean and hurtful over the internet, and they feel there is nothing they can do about it. Even if they block the person, the person is still able to send it to a wide range of other people to view, which eventually circles around back to the targeted person. That can cause some children to be so embarrassed that they become isolated, and some even want or attempt to commit suicide.
As parents, it is very important to us to teach our children their worth and stress to them that the door is always open to them to come to us as parents, if they feel any type of pressure from social media.