Transitional age. How difficult it is

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Yesterday, while waiting for the birth of a child, you thought about how he would grow up, what awaits him in his future life, thought that you were ready to do everything possible and impossible for him. The child was born, grew up, and now yesterday's baby declares that he has his own opinion, that he does not need advice, and sometimes parents are unable to understand what is happening and how to help the offspring. But indeed, the time has come when the child is no longer a "chrysalis", but not yet a "butterfly". This is a transitional age.

Yes, time flies fast. The child enters adulthood, and on the way to this life he will have to learn something for which he is not yet ready, but he will still have to accept the adult conditions of the game. No matter how difficult it is, parents should be the main assistant and support for their offspring at this difficult moment.

When children enter a transitional age, they change not only physically, there is a change in consciousness and perception of the world around them. The body grows, the process of puberty occurs, the psyche changes. From the fact that all changes occur rather quickly, the nervous system is subject to overload, the child becomes irritable, and often even aggressive. During transitional agethere is a rapid process of production of certain hormones as a guarantee of absolutely all physiological changes.

The transitional age in boys starts one or two years later than in girls, lasts from four to five years and proceeds much more actively. Already at the age of 12-13, the difference between them becomes noticeable. The transitional age in girls comes two years later than in boys, proceeds more calmly and ends faster.

Already at the very beginning of adolescence, adolescents begin to show character traits inherent in their gender. Although the transitional age for both boys and girls does not have clear boundaries, the period from 10 years to 17 years is called the transitional age by psychologists and doctors, adjusted for an increase or decrease in the period. The transitional age can be divided into three stages.

The first stage (younger adolescence) is the period when the body, like the psyche, is preparing for the upcoming changes. The second stage (puberty) is the transitional age itself. The third period (youth) is post-pubertal, when the physiological and psychological construction is completed. When all processes end, and the transitional age comes to an end, sexual activity appears and interest in the opposite sex grows.

In addition to external changes, behavior and character change. The child becomes touchy, rude, suspicious and categorical, he often argues for any reason. Hormonal surges in the body of a teenager causeemotional instability, and psychological problems can affect the physical condition.

When a child grows up, it is not easy for him to navigate the changing reality alone, the main task of parents is to be there and help their offspring survive all the difficulties with the least losses both for the child and for the family as a whole.