Social skills and manners in teens
Social skills are the tools that enable people to communicate, learn, ask for help, get needs met in appropriate ways, get along with others, make friends, develop healthy relationships, protect themselves, and in general, be able to interact with the society harmoniously.
Manners are the ways of behaving toward people, especially ways that are socially correct and show respect for their comfort and their feelings. Social skills and manners go together. Persons with good social skills are usually well mannered.
Affirmation Verse - Romans 12: 1-2 The Message Translation
So here is what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Do not become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.
Instead, fix your attention on God. You will be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Some information teens should be aware of:
Societal Conditioning - The influence of society on our thoughts, words and actions.
Peer pressure – a feeling that one must do the same things as other people of ones age and social group in order to be liked or respected by them.
Personal values – Broad desirable goals that motivate people’s actions and serve as guiding principles in their lives.
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