Facing The issues
Shifting from childhood to adolescence is pretty tough. It all boils down to adapting to the various changes that one hes to undergo: the mental, emotional, and the physical changes that is entailed in the evnt of pre-adolescence.There are several important issues that a teen has to be prepared for; some of these issues pertain to body image, identity, family relationships as well as those that deal with friends and the opposite sex. Teens cope with these issues differently, but in order to lead a healthy, satisfyung and happy sense of self, a teen has keep a positive attitude when it comes to hang
Some teens find it too hard to deal with the changes in their lives; thus they find it hard to grow up. Adjust may be critical, especially when the teen is fixated with certain things and people and situations. For one, a teen who is very attached to her parents may find it hard to relate with her peers, especially when her peers have leap into the independence stage. Teens who are the youngest among siblings, or teens who are the only kid in the family, may be too comfortable in being with his or her parents that he or she finds it hard to “let go”. In cases such as these, the peers should be the ones to initiate a sort of social welcome for that teen. Otherwise, that teen may not want to leave the safe haven of the care of his or her parents. Moreover, it will be difficult for the teen because he or she may be stereotyped as an outcast.
While choosing to be with one’s parents all the time is not always a bad idea, I’m sure most of you will agree that it is not very to one’s image and identity, which is one of the critical issues that facing adulthood has in store for young people.
As a last resort, those who do not want to join the social scene with his or her peers and also doesn;t have friends who will include him or her in the social circles, the parents can also be the ones to urge their child to expand his or her horizons, so to speak. This way, the child will enetr the pre-adolescence stage the way other individuals do.
