Why Dictate True Habits Of Today's Lack Of Self Control?

Charlotte recently celebrated her fourteenth birthday with herself, family, and two of her close friends. She spends most of her time reading or listening to music on a two-year old iPod given to her by her grandmother for becoming the top of her class. Her mother and father handed her a pink wrapped box, small and rectangular, containing a smartphone. She decided to give this new device a shot, in hopes of somehow meeting more people to talk to about whatever was burning in the back of her head everyday. She spent the first day with her phone a bit confused. She had no idea how to work the device or what site to go on to meet others. A week after getting the phone, she is found, on her bed, tapping away on her phone. Her parents, concerned about the idea of her becoming like her hermit brother who rarely ever goes out and does not have many friends …show more content…
Overall, the students who looked at their phones during the given time had received the worse scores on the test. However, though the study results do dictate true habits of today’s teens, what about self control? When there is a lack of self control, teens become swallowed by the world of technology. Someone who is so engulfed by technology has the ability to find the self control in themselves to choose to spend time with someone rather than stare at a phone screen. The part of your brain that forms self control is the dorsal fronto-median cortex (“Area responsible for self-control”). One uses this area on the midline of the brain just above the eyes to resist urges. When one can juggle time spent with those in the real world and the world of the internet, their life becomes balanced with better communication with themselves and their