Parents and Children.: Parenting and Adolescence
Adolescence is the stage of life between childhood and adulthood. It is often a time of great confusion and conflicting emotions, both for adolescents and their parents.
The Becoming Years: Adolescent Conflict with Parents
At the onset of puberty, conflict with parents increases and does not decline until middle or late adolescence. Although the conflict is usually about trivial things, it is part of the process of teens attempting to develop a sense of autonomy and i...
The Becoming Years: Mark of an Adult, The
The age at which adulthood begins varies depending on when an individual takes on adult roles such as a full-time job and marriage. Changes in the brain brought on by puberty are largely complete in young adulthood and people are more responsible an...
The Becoming Years: Physical Development During Adolescence
Adolescence, roughly spanning the ages from 10 to 20, is a transitional time when children are becoming adults. It is a period marked by profound physical and psychological changes. One of the most important features of adolescence is the biological...
The Becoming Years: Development: from Womb to Tomb
Adolescence and older adulthood, two stages of development at near opposite end of life, share a common thread of exploration, discovery, and growth. From womb to tomb-childhood, adolescence, early and middle adulthood , the years of old age-- we ar...
Different Strokes: Importance of Peer Influence on Development
Peers tend to exert influence over what young people wear, the music they like, and how they want to spend their free time. Most teens admire their parents and retain many of their basic values but clash over curfew and control issues. An 8th ...
The Becoming Years: Adolescent Risk Taking
Research on adolescent risk taking has yielded some interesting findings. First adolescents who do not take risks are less likely to have favorable long-term outcomes than those who occasionally take moderate risks. This tendency to take chances app...
The Becoming Years: Adolescent Social Development
In the early stages of adolescence, children tend to be egocentric, feeling the eyes of an imaginary audience on them, believing their life is unique and different from other people. These early stirrings of "self" include trying different personali...