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What is adolescence?

Faegre, Marion L.

Pages: 7 –8

For practical purposes we ordinarily speak of adolescence as the period leading up to and for a number of years after a boy or girl has passed through the changes that come to a climax in sexual maturity. And because growing up is accomplished for almost all young people in the years between 12...

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Influences of earlier life experience.

Faegre, Marion L.

Pages: 9 –14

In this chapter, the author considers the influences of earlier life experience on adolescent development. These include (1) the way adults (particularly mothers) discipline and protect their children; (2) individual differences; and (3) sympathetic understanding. Relationships within the family,...

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Getting used to physical changes.

Faegre, Marion L.

Pages: 15 –23

The period of rapid growth preceding adolescence is often spoken of as an "awkward" period. Why, it seems reasonable to wonder, should a person be any more clumsy or gawky at one stage of his growth than another? A lack of gain in coordination at this time isn't because of physical growth; like...

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Breaking away from childhood.

Faegre, Marion L.

Pages: 24 –34

This chapter considers the changing behaviors of adolescents and the ways parents can help make these changes less difficult. Parents need to give thought to which of the things that crop up are important, and which are not. If all along, this weighing of matters has been the rule, there can be a...

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Development brings new responsibilities.

Faegre, Marion L.

Pages: 35 –45

This chapter examines parental expectations of their children's abilities and adolescents' need to assume responsibility for their own achievements. The chapter focuses the following topics: (1) the fairness of parental expectations; (2) adolescents sharing in decision making; (3) parental...

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Friends and companions.

Faegre, Marion L.

Pages: 46 –55

As boys and girls pass into the teen-age period their friendships tend to take on a more personal meaning than before. These relationships become meaningful not just because of the importance of acceptance by their peers, but also because of the longing to share new feelings and experiences. A...

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What roles are boys and girls expected to play?

Faegre, Marion L.

Pages: 56 –64

Almost from the beginning, boys and girls are treated differently.. Our expectations of how they should look and act and feel begin to work on them in babyhood. If a boy has curly hair, and his sister's is straight, the fact that it wasn't the other way round is bemoaned, for it has been handed...

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Becoming adjusted to the opposite sex.

Faegre, Marion L.

Pages: 65 –72

One of the things often remarked about boys and girls is the way their attitudes toward each other shift at different stages. Little children, before they have any self-consciousness, enjoy each other wholeheartedly. Then, about the time their school life begins, their changing interests and...

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Emotions in adolescence.

Faegre, Marion L.

Pages: 73 –80

Though teen-age boys and girls have feelings that are just as strong as ever, they have them under better control. Society has brought pressure to bear, and maturation has been going on, too. Being able to wait, to tolerate criticism, to shunt strong feelings into outlets that will do no harm, or...

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Health needs of adolescents.

Faegre, Marion L.

Pages: 81 –92

Adolescence should be a period in which boys and girls are taking more responsibility in every phase of their lives. Whether they do so in respect to health depends partly on the kind of encouragement they are getting from their parents toward growing up and partly on how successfully the health...

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