10 things you should know about millennial parents with psychologist Stephanie Bove

Millennials are changing the way children are being raised.

The millennial generation, born between 1980 and 2005, has a unique and evolving parenting style, explains psychologist Stephanie Bove.

Bove says millennials are the biggest generation and have become highly competent parents.

Most millennial parents have the following traits:

  • They are well-educated
  • They are very focused on health and dietary needs
  • They are techno-savvy and use apps to supplement medical and parenting advice
  • They are not averse to changing careers
  • They are pros at multitasking
  • They enjoy travel
  • They are family orientated
  • They are good at managing a child’s screen time effectively
  • They are focused on building their child’s self-esteem
  • More millennial dads are playing an active parenting role

To listen to the podcast feel free to click on the link below.

https://omny.fm/shows/mid-morning-show-702/family-matters-millennial-parenting

Is jy wat jy tweet?

Ten spyte van die toenemende gebruik van Twitter, is daar min navorsing oor die verband tussen Twitter en persoonlikheid van die gebruiker. Druk verbruikers hulle persoonlikheid op sosiale media uit? Kan daar akkurate persoonlikheidsoordele gevel word op grond van die persoon se Twitter profiel? Twitter as mikroblog kan as ‘n goeie medium dien om die verband tussen mikroblog en persoonlikheid te sien. Deur die mikroblog, in die geval Twitter, te bestudeer sal ons sien hoe persoonlikheid uitgedruk word in geskrewe vorm. Die doel van die studie is dus om die verhouding tussen persoonlikheid en Twitter te peil. 

Ja, die verhouding kan gepeil word, baie abstrak en soms wuspelturig, maar met die behulp van tegnologie wat woorde analiseer is dit tog moontlik. Daar kan veral verskille in geslag, ouderdom, en lokaliteit ontleed word deur te kyk na woorde eie tot die bepaalde groep mense. So ook kan daar deur ‘n analise van positiewe en negatiewe, asook persoonlike en onpersoonlike woorde gesien word of die persoon meer geneig is om ‘n ekstro of introvert te wees.

So daar is tog ‘n merkbare eie karakter van elke persoon se mikroblog te siene op die Twitter webwerf. Maar wat sal nou met daardie inligting gedoen word? Vir bemarkingsdoeleindes is daar vele opsies, maar wat my betref wonder ek oor die geloofsaspek van die bevindinge. Hoe kan hierdie navorsing in verhouding staan met die kerk? Hoe kan die kerk dit gebruik? Moet die kerk al meer kompartemente skep in die samelewing of moet die samelewing juis bymekaar gebring word in die kerk, met al sy verskillende fassette?

Wat Jeugbediening betref is die vraag weer op die tafel oor intergenerasionele bediening… Moet kinderkerk buite die kerk geskied in die saal of moet dit in die hoof erediens geskied? En as dit in die hoof erediens geskied, hoe akkommodeer jy van jonk tot oud in een erediens?

Van wat ek op ‘n onwetenskaplike manier kan aflei deur blote observasie van die sosiale media, van facebook en twitter, is dat hierdie vorme van sosiale media juis besig is om die mure van die samelewing af te breek. Sosiale media skep juis die ruimte dat almal by almal kan leer, veral in die geval van twitter.

As God dit is wat in die Skrif van Hom geopenbaar is, is Hy net dit?

As die kerk is wat sy verkondig, is sy net dit?

As jy is wat jy tweet, is jy net dit?

Stephen Seminar Number 5: Modes of Mind: Does Society have an IQ?

This past Wednesday felt like an episode of Fringe playing out before my eyes with the Speaker showing similarities with Walter Bishop. The speaker (Shannon) played with the idea of a shared intellect within society.

He started of by stating that in knowing the general skill you have access to advance in that skill because the general is central to understanding the specific. He said that development should happen first and then later direction would follow. In this he pointed out a few case studies of obscure people that think extremely different and out of the norm. He talked about one person that perceives mathematics in a complete different way than the accepted norm. This person doesn’t see numbers but rather shapes where the numbers are and in solving the equation he tries to align the different shapes.

He went on to say that intelligence has two aspects. One is the ability to learn, and the other the ability to solve problems. In this he points out a hierarchy, that learning precedes over problem solving.

He also went into great detail on neuroscience that the brain is not static as was thought. In an experiment with a Chimpanzee scientist stroked the chimps fingers only repeatedly and over some time they saw that the part of the brain that is processing this touch sensation grew larger than normal because of this touch sensation.

Then he proposed that society functions like the individual in that it is extremely complex and when you change one thing allot of other factors needs to be accounted for because not just that one thing changes. The thing that changes puts into motion another set of changes, like moving the blocks of a Rubrics cube.

An interesting question that was asked by someone was: “Can the brain understand itself?”

This question, with what has been mentioned, overshadowed the whole seminar for me.