The First Level of Social Skills

Social skills have gone down as our forced schooling in the West has gotten stronger and stronger. I think this is also media causes this a lot too because children are watching so much television and movies. And if you watch, watch children's television sometimes, you know, watch how rude the children are - they're always like telling little jokes and being kind of rude. The message is that rudeness is funny. So the kids get trained to be rude. Now the next level of social skills would be conflict resolution. Dealing with conflict, dealing with disagreements, right? That's a very, very important social skill. We need that for all our relationships, our friendships, our dating, marriage