Just yesterday, expecting the birth of a child, you thought about how he would grow up, what awaited 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 yesterday’s baby claims that he has his own opinion that he does not need advice, and sometimes parents are not able to understand what is happening and how to help the offspring. But indeed, the time has come when the child is no longer a "doll", but not a "butterfly." This is a transitional age.
Yes, time flies fast. A child enters adulthood, and on the way to this life he will have to find out what he is not ready for yet, but he will still have to accept adult game conditions. No matter how difficult, 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. 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 overloads, the child becomes irritable, and often even aggressive. During adolescence, there is a quick process of producing certain hormones as a guarantee of absolutely all physiological changes.
The transitional age in boys begins 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 calmer and ends faster.
Already at the very beginning of adolescence, adolescents begin to show character traits inherent in their gender. Although the transitional age in both boys and girls has no clear boundaries, the period from 10 years to 17 years, psychologists and doctors call the transitional age, adjusted for an increase or decrease in the period. The transitional age can be divided into three stages.
The first stage (young adolescence) is the period when the body, like the psyche, prepares 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 bursts in the body of a teenager cause
emotional instability, and
psychological problems can affect the physical condition.
At a time when a child is growing up, it is not easy for him to navigate the changing reality, the main task of parents is to be close and help survive the offspring with all the difficulties with the least loss for both the child himself and the family as a whole.