Posts Tagged ‘nomophobia’
Nomophobia: What Is It and How to Identify Symptoms
Adults over the age of 45 likely remember the days before cellular phones. Motorola produced the first handheld phone in 1973. It weighed over two pounds and was over nine inches long. If you needed to use it, you had approximately 30 minutes of talk time before waiting ten hours for the batteries to recharge.…
Read MoreNomophobia & Teen Success
How often do you see young people on their phone? If you answered anything other than all the time, you are not interacting with the same teenagers that we are. Phone and tablet use is so common that it is even being added to their school curriculum. Prompts such as “find this resource online and…
Read MoreIs Your Teen Dealing with Nomophobia?
Nomophobia a recently named phobia that can affect everyone in this digitally dependent age, but is a greater threat to teen development. Think about how much we all use our cell phones. We can probably all attest to the fact that if we are a smartphone user, the device has somehow become an extension of…
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