Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
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.
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
Youth condemns; maturity condones.
Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.
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 a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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.
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.
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.