...To start off with, relationships. Oh boy, what could we say about this topic. Relationships are what most teenagers worry about. Does this boy like me, does this girl like me. How can I impress him/her? Students go around during school worrying more about if they look "hot" or if the boy/girl they are crushing on is noticing them. This effects student's school work. Students focus more on what's going on in their personal life with their relationship and cannot focus on their school work. If the guy or girl that they are crushing on or in a relationship with is in any of the same classes, it could cause distractions and lower your grades. You push off your school work, and worry about them. It's hard to have a relationship with someone sometimes especially when you see them at school all the time and something happens. Say you get into a fight or something, then you are extremely upset all day and start to cry. All day, all you think about is if you guys are going to be okay, and what is going to happen. I've done it. I know it's extremely hard to focus but you just have to try. Relationships are a big part of an average teenagers life, and they are usually pretty hard to keep strong. Another thing i've done, is just pushed off my homework and hung out with whoever I was dating and then started to get low grades. My mom was extremely upset and told me that if me having a boyfriend was going to effect my grades then there was going to be a lot of consequences. If you just mainly...
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...INTRODUCTION “Without education, man is as though in a closed room and with education he finds himself in a room with all its windows open towards the outside world.” (Kassim Wais) Education serves as the means to bring about the desired changed in society, to develop a generation of virtuous individuals and thus contribute to the development of good human beings. It also serves as the means to develop oneself physically mentally and socially. Education to the youth manifests itself in terms of the need to cultivate the youth of society into mature individuals. It is important for them because youth is their growing stage it is also the time to develop the principle of life, make career decisions and begin to pursuit of one’s goal. It is important that the education to aims at youth developing social awareness in these adult-to-be (Manali Oak). Education is vital to the healthy growth and development of one’s personality. In making the ‘beings’ ‘human’ to produce ‘human being’ lies the importance of education to youths. But the transition of teenager’s attention from studying from the feeling of love has grown up. Right from the schools, teenagers find themselves getting attracted to the opposite sex in schools, neighborhood or even because of media which influences their feeling in many cases. Teenage affection has more chances of resulting just because of infatuation. It is highly probable that because of the hormonal changes in this phase of life, we are excited and keen...
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... 2014 SPCH 1300/10a.m. (MWF) University of Central Arkansas Adriian Gardner ‘’How Every Good Man Fails’’ How Every Good Man Fails? It all started this summer I was on a quest to find the other half of me, my soul mate some may say. On my quest I did find a person who I thought would be my soul mate but wasn’t. By using Mark Knapp’s stages of getting in and out of a relationship, I’m going to tell you about this summer time heartbreak. But first I must explain that there are ten stages of Mark Knapp’s relationship stages in getting in and out of a relationship. Mark Knapp’s getting into a relationship stages are initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, and bonding (Author Mark, K., pg. 208, Figure7-1). And Mark Knapp’s stages of getting out a relationship are differencing, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, and termination (pg. 208, Figure 7-1). First off the girl I fell for was not a girl I would typically fall for because she wasn’t my type. And when we went into the Initiating stage of our relationship as described by Mark Knapp as the stage of starting a relationship (pg. 208, Figure 7-1), I just saw our first encounter as a friendly conversation. I only spoke to her because of the setting of the situation she was in, which was a funny setting dealing with a crazy guy harassing her. The setting took place while I was walking from the park. A friend who was with me and happened to be related to her, he invited her to the park also so she walked...
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...sane. They could be the things to keep a person alive. Having a good and healthy relationship is so important, because it can be what keeps a person living. If someone was never loved, that person would feel anger and sadness. Successful suicides are the result of feeling no love. Those people who commit that kind of suicide feel alone and trapped. They feel like the only way to get better is to disappear. They believe they are the reason for every problem they have. Some suicides are committed by those who feel no love, who only feel hurt, pain, and anger. This is why having healthy and good relationships are so important. If one is thinking of committing suicide and puts warning signs and the parents do not see them, it is not the parents’ fault, but it does mean that they may not have been paying as much attention as they should have been. This does not mean that the child is not loved. It simply means they did not feel it. Psychologically, a person can be loved by another more than anything in the world, but that person needs to be able to feel it. Some people feel like they cannot be with someone at a point in their lives because they have some unresolved issues with their selves they need to fix before being able to love. These issues come in the way of their emotion and feel like they cannot be in a relationship before they can actually love their selves. Having healthy relationships with friends, family, and business acquaintances is a way to help a person become...
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...An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close association/acquaintance between two or more people that may range in duration from brief to enduring. This association may be based on inference, love, solidarity, regular business interactions, or some other type of social commitment. Interpersonal relationships are formed in the context of social, cultural and other influences. The context can vary from family or kinship relations, friendship, marriage, relations with associates, work, clubs, neighborhoods, and places of worship. They may be regulated by law, custom, or mutual agreement, and are the basis of social groups and society as a whole. Field of study The study of interpersonal relationships involves several branches of the social sciences, including such disciplines as sociology, psychology, anthropology, and social work. Interpersonal skills are extremely vital when trying to develop a relationship with another person. The scientific study of relationships evolved during the 1990s and came to be referred to as 'relationship science', which distinguishes itself from anecdotal evidence or pseudo-experts by basing conclusions on data and objective analysis. Interpersonal ties are also a subject in mathematical sociology. Importance of interpersonal relationships Human beings are innately social and are shaped by their experiences with others. There are multiple perspectives to understand this inherent motivation to interact with others. Need to belong ...
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...finding the relationship that is right for us, we may want to take the opportunity to refine our concept of who we are and our ideas of what we want from life. That way, we are clearer on the kind of person we want to attract into our lives. Part of the journey of finding a mate is learning how to become our own mate. When we can learn to meet our needs without relying on someone else to complete us, we don’t have to form relationships from the space of needing our emptiness to be filled. We can also discover our intrinsic value, separate from what someone else might be reflecting back to us. Getting to know who we are and learning to love ourselves creates a solid foundation of self that we can bring to any relationship. We are fortunate to live in a time when relationships can unfold at a pace that is right for us and take unique forms. Friendship, dating, open relationships, long term relationships, long distance relationships, or committed relationships — we are free to choose the kind of relationships that we want. If you want to be in relationship, but haven’t found the right one for you, remember that the universe works in perfect order and, therefore, right now your life is unfolding exactly as it is meant to be. Maybe all this time has been part of your preparation period for meeting your intended partner. Even the relationships in our lives that haven’t worked out as we had hoped serve us by teaching us to make better choices in our next relationships. Finding...
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...Student Name Date Interpersonal Communication Sample "Relationships" Paper Relationships, especially close and trusting relationships, are very important for the positive, social and psychological growth of the individuals involved in the relationship. In our society, people in close relationships desire physical contact, emotional support, acceptance and love. These traits and feelings are part of human nature, and people strive for these types of interpersonal relationships in order to fulfill the void in people's lives and, above all, to make sense of life through trust, sharing and caring. During my years in college, I have met many interesting people in the classroom, as well as in the dormitories. I made many new friends in The Segundo dormitories at The University of California, Davis. Although I hung out with many people and exchanged information about college life, I only developed a very close and intimate relationship with a girl in my psychobiology class during my first, fall quarter. Mark Knapp suggests that interpersonal relationships develop through several stages. My relationship with my best friend, Betty, has gone through the coming together stages of initiating, experimenting, intensifying and integrating. At this point, we have only experienced the differentiating and circumscribing stages in the coming apart stages of Knapp’s model. During the first class meeting in psychobiology, I sat in class, scanning the rows to see if I was able...
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...Relationship Strategies Exploring love immediately think of many special characteristic such as understanding, respect, happiness, tolerance, admiration, honesty, among others more. One love relationship in my life is the relationship with my father. When I was a little girl watched as my father worried about giving me to my family and me a better future. He is not a person that can express what he feels. Since child suffered much abuse. I think the reason for its behavior. Always looked how my mother suffered by the lack of respect and his infidelity. Despite all the always worries for giving home and food, but he was absent. I was growing and I could see things with more clarity. They have now managed to establish some strategies that have helped me to establish a better relationship. The first strategy is to Carve out time to talk. Though the lives in Puerto Rico, I maintain communication frequently, where the can tell me what afflicted you and the experiences of their daily routine. I listen and show him that it is important for my. That way I show that no matter what happens. I try to forget the past and that will be able to learn to that experience. My father and me managed to establish a sincere communication and that has helped the relationship. Another strategy I use is to Express admiration. I always remember my father that is a wrestler. It is the example that I want to continue fighting for what I want and move forward. The established always challenges and...
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...to live a Christ-directed life. As you continue to breathe spiritually (confess your sin and claim the fullness of the Spirit), you will experience a deepening fellowship with God enabling you to grow in Christian maturity. Relationship first begins with God. 1 peter 2:2,3 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. 2 Peter 1: 5-8 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, LOVE. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. These verses are some of the basic foundation for having a relationship with our Lord Jesus. You may be asking yourselves what does this have to do with building up each other as women. It has a lot to do it; we a cannot minister half full or cannot give what we did not receive. In this relationship with our Lord, we receive, grace, peace, love and all the other fruits. Fruits is something that we share. For instance if you have a garden or fruit trees at harvest time you alone cannot contain all that it produces. ...
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...In case 1 , the main character Ken is facing some problems including pressure from family, lack of normal social cycle and heavy pressure from study. In the following paragraphs, I will give more details of the problems and suggest some relevant solutions to solve his problems. First, the undue care from his parents makes Ken under pressure. As Ken is the only child in his family, his parents treat him well such as giving him what he wants and put all focus on him. Although his parents may not express their expectations to Ken , he knows that his parents’ hope on him. All parents including Ken’s parent want their children do well on academic aspect so they hope Ken can get a good result in DSE and enter university. When Ken gets a bad DSE result and fail to enter university, he feels really sorry to his parents because he cannot fulfil the expectation of his parents. He knows that no other little brother and sister can satisfy his parents’ prospects since he does not have any brothers and sisters . He thinks that his failure makes his parents disappointed , which is the reason why he felt too embarrassed to go home. The family pressure drives Ken bears academic pressure later as he does not want to disappoint his parents again. The effective way to solve this problem is to communicate with parents. He needs to tell his parents that their undue care makes a great pressure to him and suggest to give him some spaces. Also, He should express he knows the expectations of his parents...
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...Sociological research, Topic: relationships As a researcher I Rodney White plan to take a look at how couples in Relationships deal with each other knowing there are problems that need to be resolved. Example: Tom and Mary have been in a relationship for two years. Tom wants to get Married but Mary feels she not ready to be married but still wants to be with tom the rest of her life, Tom feels the same yet he feels if they get married it would bring them even closer than they are now. Researcher: R White 1.Looking in on these two my first question would be why Mary is not willing to get married at this point. is it a fear she has , or maybe she has seen friends get married, and a little while later get divorced, or does she come from divorced parents. Does she have goals set in her life to complete before she commits to being married, or having kids. And most important if Mary wants to be with tom for life then why would she say that given him some sense of security but not following through on the Marriage subject. Researcher: R White 2. for tom my question is he insecure with the relationship and feels if marriage is produced would that give him a false sense of security, is he bringing problems from pass relationships into this relationship creating an illusion that doesn't exist but for him it does for a more secure state of mind, or does he feel he's losing Mary from lack of communication and...
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...There are many reasons relationships can break down, Duck suggested 3 main reasons in 1999. Firstly, lack of skills; this refers to to inability to connect with one another for example if someone lacks social skills they will be unable to communicate their satisfaction or attract with their partner, this leads to an unrewarding outcome and the relationship may breakdown. This theory of thinking your partner isn't interested is supported by extramarital affairs, Boekhout(1999) used university students to say what would lead to an affair; for males it was lack of sexual stimuli and for women it was lack of emotional satisfaction. Both suggesting that their partners aren't interested in them either sexually or emotionally. This study lacks population validly as only university students were used, therefore it can't be generalised to the majority of the population. The reasons for to have an affair may change with age and the marital statues of the couple. This is supported by real world application, couples who struggle with social skills can take part in a Couples Coping Enchantment training, this sensitises couples to the idea of equity and aid them in communicating. Cina et al (2003) compared to groups of couples a controlled group who didn't receive CCET and the test group who did, she found that the test group had a better quality of marriage after receiving the training. This study despite having a large participant number can not be generalised to the entirety as it has cultural...
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...After taking the time to assess the relationships around myself, I realized that I am not a person who pays much attention to relationships. At first glance, it’s almost as if relationships come naturally and there is not much work that needs to be done. However, after my assessments, I have come to realize that I do practice relationship maintenance although it is done subconsciously. I have explored relationships between family members and myself as well as the relationship I have with my boyfriend. Within each relationship I have different maintenance techniques because of who each person is and how we naturally connect. Mom (Parent and child relationship): The relationship between my mother, Maricela, and I, is a parent/child relationship...
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...Building relationships is an important facet of any career-seeking adult. Building and maintaining a relationship can lead to valuable advice regarding a career, valuable insight and perhaps even a career opportunity. In order to build a successful relationship, one must first be an approachable person, secondly, one must nurture the relationship, and lastly, one must not quit trying. Often people wonder why they don’t have relationships that are more than “surface level”. A main reason is the approachability of a person. To be approachable one must have appropriate welcoming body language. The easiest of ways to seem approachable is to smile. You may not realize by having a straight face comes off as unwelcoming. How are you to start a conversation if you look mad? Several other ways that come off as unapproachable body language is crossing of the arms, distracting devices such as cellphones (which makes you appear busy), and failure to make eye contact. These small details have a big impact on relationship building. It is important to remember to look happy and welcoming to all those around you. Once a relationship is established, and the initial meeting went well, you must continue to nurture that relationship. One of the most common mistakes when building relationships is leaving a relationship alone, assuming a relationship will survive without regular contact (Billingham, 2013). Writing an email with such questions as simple as “How have you been?” can lead to maybe...
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...for understanding the ups and downs and sometimes illogical nature of interpersonal relationships. Developed by communication scholars Leslie Baxter, Barbara Montgomery and their colleagues, the dialectical perspective assumes that relationships keep changing. They are not maintained, but rather sustained through changing statuses. There are three sets of tensions that are common in relationships: integration-separation; stability-change; and expression-privacy. The first dialectic identified is integration – separation, more commonly known as autonomy versus connection. This is the tension in a relationship where either partner desires to be independent but also connected. The desire for different levels of autonomy and connection can generate friction in relationships. In the initial phase of the relationship we are like actors in a play trying to please the audience. But we cannot repress who we are for too long. Eventually we have to let our true selves show. An example of this is when a couple is in the beginning stages of the relationship, they are spending all of their time together and all is going fine. As time goes along either partner wants to start doing things independently. He/she wants to hang out with friends and have “alone time”. This can create tension in the relationship because the partner might not want to be left out. It is very common for the relationship to become strained at this point. It is a contrast from spending great amounts of time...
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