The Feeling Hello Teen, you have come a long way, eleven years at the least, to be called a teenager. You've grown from being called a kid to being called a Teenager. Now you begin to understand yourself, you begin to know and analyze your emotions, you now can express your feelings. You can now observe your strengths (things you are good at) and your weaknesses. You feel you are getting matured and you just want to be different. The Teenage years is full of hopes and anxiety, fears and cares not knowing what lies ahead in the nearest future. You feel good about yourself anyway that you are also becoming an adult and you feel on top of the world when you are promoted to the next class. I would like to put to words here what happens to youths as they approach puberty or the age of adolescence also called the Teenage hood. You should know that another name for teenage years is Adolescence and the teenager is referred to as an Adolescent. You would likely note these changes are issues you are presently facing or that you have faced that is if you have been able to get over them. As a teen, a lot of things are happening to you that you yourself do not even understand although you think you do and almost everyone around you also do not understand what is going on with you although they think they do. I will speak briefly of these events before we then move on to discuss who you are now and how you came to be who you are. Characteristics of Adolescence Adolescence begins at puberty and it usually begins at the 11-13 age range. Because pubertal age varies, some teenagers enter puberty at about age 10 while others at about age 15. Adolescents come to have opinions and beliefs that their opinions are the best and that things can work their way. They hardly want to accept opinions or observations that oppose their own ideas. Their inability to believe other persons is based on their lack of experience to support their own beliefs. The Adolescents wants to attach to someone they think they like at this stage. This person could be a person of the same sex or of the other sex, a friend, teacher, a family member or relatives. Search for independence from Adults Adolescents see themselves as adults and want their own freedom and of course the parents at this period see the adolescent as not being able to handle their affairs on their own so they refuse to grant independence to the adolescent. The adult's unwillingness to grant freedom puts some pressure on the youths and they try to enforce their freedom amidst their peers. Hence the youths move together in cliques and react to situations in gangs and they prefer the company of their peers to that of the adults. The adolescent whether male or female wants acceptance and approval of their behaviour by other people and since adults would not 'cooperate', they seek for independence amidst their peers. Adolescents want an ideal and sophisticated life. The physical changes make them search for sophistication. They think they are matured. Many actions of adolescents in the school at this time are against school rules. There is always a conflict between school rules and adolescent behaviours especially as regards boy-girl relationships, dressing, body care and hair care and other general issues. Observations have also revealed that Adolescents prefer social activities to academics. They organize social activities on their own selecting leaders amidst themselves. In situations where discipline is weak, they react negatively to academics through noise making, hissing or other anti-social behaviours. Females have more superficial physical development than males which makes them interested in males not of their own age. They want more mature forms of interaction with boys than with girls of their age. |
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