“EVERYTHING CHANGES … CHANGES …”
Adolescence, a time of life where they can feel strong emotions torments as well as frequent clashes between the younger generation and adults.
Physical changes occur after ten or eleven years for women and a little later in boys. Due to the speed of the transformation of the body, many teenagers are concerned about their appearance and need to be reassured. All this growth, uses a lot of energy, which could be related to the need for more sleep. Getting up late teens angers parents but not a product of laziness of their children, but of physical and hormonal causes.
It is important to note that each individual develops at a different rate.
In addition to the rapid physical, there are great emotional changes are positive though, can sometimes be confusing and uncomfortable for adults and for the subject himself.
To build a new way of being in the world … adolescents should leave their homes. The gang is most important at this stage of life, and is the place where they are going to build your new subjectivity. Parents become less essential. Young people spend much time talking on the phone at the front of the computer, listening to music or outside the home, which angers parents and conflict occurs.
The conflicts and arguments, even if frequent, have nothing to do with the personality of the parents or with them. Not that we do not appreciate or not we want more, but is related to the need of adolescents to become independent and build their own lives.
While we strive to be more independent, try new paths, but if faced with difficulties, often angry, being cranky and lose confidence in himself, leading them to seek refuge in their families.
What teenager has not felt so sad that she cried and wanted to get away from everything and everyone, thinking that life is not worth living. These feelings can lead to a depressive state that can hide under excess food, sleep problems and excessive worries about their physical appearance. These disorders can also be expressed in the form of fears or panic attacks.
Behavioral problems:
For one thing teenagers want their parents to provide them clear and precise limits but when this is done, they feel deprived of freedom and not allow you to make your own decisions. Disagreements occur and often parents lose control not knowing what is happening to their children, or where they are.
Therefore, it is important that parents ask and know where your children are, who you are and where they go. And the children report to their elders.
School problems:
Adolescents often refuse to go to school and expressing a difficulty in separating from parents. This can be expressed in the form of “headaches” or “stomach.”
Other problems may be the difficulty of integrating the peer group or conflicts with a student, you may be being harassed by a colleague. All these situations can make attending the school becomes a lonely experience and threatening.
Other problems may be associated with depression, anxiety and lack of confidence to face the challenges of classroom learning and to make friends.
These emotional problems affect school performance, it is difficult to concentrate on the task when you are worried about yourself, family problems or friendships.
Sexual problems:
Sometimes teenagers are shy and are concerned about their physical and this leads to not ask questions about sex to their elders. At other times may receive incorrect information from friends and colleagues.
On other occasions it may be that your sexual experiences are carried out in situations of risk or unwanted pregnancies possible infection of sexually transmitted diseases. The frequent-risk situations may indicate emotional problems reflect a need to live on the edge.
To prevent such sexual problems is important for parents, teachers, doctors or family counseling centers, offer our youth the right information and sexual orientation.
Power Problems:
May suffer from anorexia or bulimia. Regarding the first condition, the subject refuses to eat and is overweight while they are actually very thin. With regard to bulimia, may be overweight or not but they spend their problems through inadequate food intake, this causes the depressed and want to overcome this mood through food produced a vicious circle difficult to control if not put them in treatment. Problems with the use of alcohol, drugs and glue:
Alcohol is the drug most commonly causes problems in adolescents. Parents should be alert to any sudden and severe child behavior.
Most of the difficulties in adolescence are neither serious nor lasting, but the teenager has to go through some of them to become a free and independent being with a life project.
Parents still play an important role in providing a secure base for their children. They have to agree among themselves on how they are handling things and support each other. We must not make alliances with the child against the other parent.
Parents are the ones who keep their children, so they have to decide what the rules of the game but sometimes can be negotiated and agreed between parents and children. They should be reasonable and be less restrictive when the adolescent becomes more responsible.
It must maintain a fluid and permanent dialogue with the children so they can come to meet us when they need it. This means that they feel heard, not criticized and not overwhelmed.
Dialogue and listening, two basic principles to deal with all the changes taking place in this wonderful time of life of our children.
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