Parents
Welcome
to your journey (again) through adolescence. It’s best entered
into with a positive frame of mind and lots of flexibility, but then
that can be said about anything! What’s important is to dispel
adolescent stereotypes because their negativity influences thinking
about this exciting time of life. See if you can see yourself in the
following statements.
You know you are
the parents of an early adolescent if:
- the music moves
a lot faster than you do, but at least you have no trouble hearing
it!
- your child
outdistances the family at the mall, not because she is anxious
to reach her destination, but because she does not want to reach
it with her family in tow.
- you are hugged
one day and disssed another.
- your child
comes home, raids the refrigerator, heads to her room and shuts
the door.
- a learners’
permit is the new gold standard.
- friends are
here today and gone tomorrow.
- the opposite
sex, a curiosity before, becomes something to be investigated.
We have developed
this page for you. It will help to explain the theories in
the context of how they apply to your everyday life. It’s too
bad that the one thing missing when our children are born is the instruction
manual. We’ve prepared a list of good resources and will also
suggest some common scenarios whose outcomes can actually be predicted
and manipulated if you know the development theories behind them.
Check them out and you’ll be the wiser about how to work through
them.
