Adolescence Period

The adolescent period is considered to be the most difficult and critical in the life of every person. Most people pass through this period very hard because of the numerous qualitative shifts that take place, at this time, which at times assume the character of a radical break with the previous properties, interests, and the relationships of the child.

The adolescent begins to have a sharpened sense of his/her own dignity, he/she sees himself as someone who may not be browbeaten, humiliated and deprived of the right to independence. The type of relationship with adults that existed during childhood becomes unacceptable to him/her as not corresponding to his/her assessment of the level of his/her own maturity. At that stage, the life of an adolescent contains many contradictions. They strive for recognition but do not get it. Consequently, they cling to their own age group, peers play the most important role in their lives.

At this period teenagers suffer from an identity crisis. What am I? What will I be? – are the questions that bother them. To minimize this crisis, parents should sit down with them, give them a patient hearing and suggest things in way acceptable to them.

In conclusion I'd like to say that adolescence is the period when teenagers are at war with themselves and with the whole world but this period does not last forever and later those grown-up "children" will reminisce over this war with the smile on their matured faces.