If children did not leave the period of children's and unconditional submission to the authority of parents and adults, then the age characteristics of adolescents would not be the subject of a separate study and understanding.
Around the age of 12-14, children cease to be children, in terms of obedience and complaisant attitude towards adults. Yesterday’s children become centers of conflict in school, among yesterday’s friends and in the family.
It should be noted that the age characteristics of younger adolescents do not always provoke any complications at school, among friends or at home. But, more often, the age-related characteristics of adolescence cause many problems with their negative manifestations to everyone who is directly related to the period of adolescence.
Manifestations of the characteristics of adolescents in school.
At school, the age characteristics of adolescents are manifested in the emergence of new interests in their own development and qualitatively new requirements for the taught disciplines. More often than not, a school cannot give adolescents the level of teaching that combines the depth and quality of presentation of the educational material that adolescents want.
During this period, most adolescents lose their past interest in school. There is a sharp stratification of students by school performance. But, the drop in school performance of a teenager does not indicate his low level of intellectual development. A teenager loses interest only in a boring and dull educational process at school, while retaining the desire for knowledge. Self-education begins to enter the life of a teenager.
Manifestations of the characteristics of adolescents in communication.
Age features of adolescents are manifested in their communication with each other. The behavior of adolescents is imitated by imitation of adults. Romantic relationships begin to arise and develop. Between teenagers there are likes and dislikes.
In the form of expressing their relationship, adolescents follow the example of adults. They start dating, going to the movies in pairs or small companies, going to discos and walking in the parks. Nowadays, more and more often you can see teenagers on the streets surrounded by bottles of beer and low alcohol drinks.
Teenagers do their best to emphasize their adulthood by imitating adult behavior. This process is accompanied by conflicts with others, because a teenager’s desire to be an adult and his willingness to be an adult do not always coincide.
Each teenager himself chooses the criterion of adulthood that appeals to him. He strives to meet the chosen criterion of adulthood, periodically comparing and evaluating his appearance and behavior to the selected criterion.
For someone, physical strength is the criterion of adulthood. Accordingly, a teenager estimates his adulthood by the level of development of his own physical strength.
If a teenager has chosen the presence of a certain skill as a criterion of adulthood, he will evaluate himself by the degree of achievement of this skill.
Some teenagers choose only the external signs of adult behavior as indicators of the level of growing up, unfortunately, not the best. As a result, they begin to actively use obscenities, jargon, drink and smoke.
Manifestations of the characteristics of adolescents with parents and adults.
Initially, the emergence of a sense of adulthood and its strengthening is equally provoked, both by the atmosphere of pressure and dictatorship, and by complete freedom and loyalty to the personality of the adolescent.
If a teenager grows up with encouragement and support from his parents, the process goes without excesses and harmoniously develops the personality of the teenager.
If a teenager develops without parental supervision or with resistance on their part, the process occurs in an atmosphere of severe confrontation.
The greater the difference between the adolescent’s internal sense of adulthood and its recognition by adults and peers, the more violent the adolescent’s protests. Protests can manifest themselves in various forms: from rude behavior and fights, to serious unlawful actions of a teenager.
The desire of a teenager to become an adult is a normal, very bright and natural desire. Age characteristics of adolescents cause problems when the adolescent does not have close and respectful relationships with parents.