ADOLESCENCE
- the development of children ages 12 through 18 years old i expected to include predictable physical
and mebtal milestones.
During adolescence, children developthe ability to;
* undrestand abstract, such as higher math concepts, and develop moral philosophies includung right
and wrong.
* establish and maintain satisfying relationshipm by learning to the intimacy without feeling worried or
inhibited.
* more toward a more mature sense of thenselves and thei purpose
* question old values without losing their identity.
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
- during adolescence, young people go through many changes as they move from childhood to physical
maturity early, changes occur when the secondary sexual characteristics upper.
* girls
- girls may develop breast bulbs as early as 8yrs old. breast develop fully between 12- 18 yrs. old.
- pubic hair armpit and legs begin to grow at about age 4 or to 10 and reach adult patterns about 13-
14yrs. old.
- Menarche( the begining of menstual period) typically occurs about 2years. After breast and pubic
hair appearrs. It may occur as early as ages 9 or late as age of 16. The age of menstruations in the US is
about 12 yrs. old.
- girls sprout speaks around age 11 nd shown around age 16.
* boys
- boys may begin to notice their testicles and scrontum grows as earky as 9. Soon the penis begins to
lengthen. By age o f 17 or 18 their genitals are usually at their adult size and shape
- Pubic hair growth as well as armpit, leg chest and facial hair. Begin in boys at about age 12 and
reaches about pattern at about 17 to 18
- boys does not start puberty with sudden incidennt, like the beginning of puberty in boys. Wet
dreams typically start between age 13-17 with are of 14.5
- Boy's voice changes at the same time as the penis grow. Nocturnal emission occurs with the peak of
heigth sprout.
- Boy's growth spurt beaks around age 13.5 and slow around age 18.
SOCIAL CHANGES
You might notice that your child is:
1. Searching for identity- young people are busy working and who they are and awhat they fit in the
world.This search can be influence by gender, peer group, natural background and family expectation.
2. Seeking more independence- this is like to influence the decision your child make and the relationship
your child with family and friends.
3. Seeking responsibility - both home and school.
4. Looking for new experience - the nature of teenage brain develop means the teenager are likely to
seek out new experience and engage in more risk- taking of behavior but they're still developing control
over their impulses.
5. thinking obout right or wrong - your child start developing a stronger individual set of values and
morals.
6. influenced more by friends especially when it comes to behaviou, sense of self and self- steem.
7. Starting to develop and explore a several identity- your child start to have a relationshipa or go on dots
these are not necessarily through our some young peolpe intimate or bisexual.
8. communicating in difference way- the internet and mobile phones and social media can significantly
influence how your child communicate with friends and learn obut the world.
EMOTINAL CHANGES
1. Show strong feelings- and intense emotins at difference time. Mood might seem unpredictable.
Thrse emotional up and down, can bad to increased conflict. For child brains is still having how to control
and explore emotions in grow-up way.
2. Is more sensitive to your emotion -young people getting better a reading a process of other people's
emotion as they get older. while they're developing these skills, they can sometimes missed facial
expression or by appearance.
3. Is more self-concious- especially about physical appearance and changes. teenage self-esteem is
often affected by appearance or how teenage they look as they develop children might compose their
bodies with those friends and peers.
4. Goes to a bullet proof of stage of thinking and acting if nothing bad could happen to him. Your child's
desicion making skils are still developing and your child decision making skills are still developing and
your childs learning about the consequence of actions.
CHANGES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTS ANGCHIL
1. Want to expend loss time with family.
2. Have more arguments with parents.
3. See things differntly from parents.
EMOTIONAL CHANGES
1. Feeling sensitive- since your body undergoes many changes, it is common to feel uncomfortable
about them and become sensitive about their phhysical appearance.
2. Looking for identity- your feel inclined to figure out what makes you unique as a preson.
3. feeling uncertained - wonder to think about new and unfamilliar aspects of life such as causes annd
livelihood marriage.
4. Feel pressure -likely tobe influence by what you see around younin a popular media and the
cultures that is represented through them.
5. Conflict thoughts- you may feel stuck between how you use as a child and how you wish to be us a
adult.
6. Mood swing- you may also experience frequency and sometimes extremes to change in your mood.
7. Feeling unconcious about self- the way you grow maybe difference from the way your friends grow.
8. Getting sexual feeling- puberty is also phase after which you develop sexual maturity is the stage of
your life when you can have children.
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
- refers to development of the ability to think reason
- develop the ability to think concrete ways.
EARLY - begins to demonstrate use of formal logical operation in school work.
- begins to question authority and society standards.
- to form and verbalize his/her own thought annd views.
MIDDLE -often question and extensively.
- to form higher form of ethics.
- different possibilities and begins to develop their own identity.
- think by long term.
- systematic thinking begins to influence relationship with others.
LATE - increased thought about more global concept such as justice, history, politics, and patronism.
- debate and develop in tilerance of opposing views.
- focus thinking on making career decisions.
- emerging role in adult society.
MAJOR PROBLEM FACED BY ADOLESCENCE
1. EMOTIONAL TENSION.
- It is maximum and unstable self respect and personal making emotion bad. he respect the things to be
done as he aspires.
2. PHYSICAL APPEARANCE.
- Its much worried about the appearance with modern and latest lifestyle and any cost.
3. FRIENDAND ARGUMENTS.
4. RELATIONSHIP
5. EMANCIPATION
6. ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE-
- This another problem of economic independence money from parents for personal expense is a major
problems.