Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.
Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties.
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.