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Reflection on adolescent development
Reflection on adolescent development
Adolescent as a stage of development
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Becoming an Adult Why is it that the events we remember the most are the most heartbreaking and detrimental. Your brought up as a child thinking nothing horrific could ever happen to you when in reality you are likely to come across a difficult situation A majority of kids are sheltered in a way that inhibits decision making. Gaining maturity is about being able to make judgments while considering values About a month after I had got my license and winter had began to take its full affect, I was put in a difficult position. I could either drive to my friends house which was within a few miles, or stay home due to the recent coating of sleet on the roads. Of course, my mom prompted me to stay home. To me that was simply not an option
and I went outside to start up my car. As I carefully drove along the narrow turns of a side street, I had no problems. I began to turn into my friends neighborhood and the minute I stepped on my brake my tires had lost traction. Gradually gaining speed as I travelled down the hill I felt powerless. Eventually I just waited for impact as a curb was approaching. As the car smashed into the curb I jolted forward as my whole body was in shock and couldn't feel pain. I instantly felt an impact as the airbags went off. The whole car had a unique smell and immediately was filled with smoke. I reached for the seatbelt as soon as I could catch my breath and opened the door to escape the fumes. Looking back at the situation I realize that many things in life come and go very quick and the people you love along with the possessions you own are affected immediately. Sometimes one wrong decision is all it takes to lose something you love. Until then I had been sheltered in the decisions I make and adulthood is reached through the gaining of respect of your surroundings through your own personal experiences.
Maturity is not a fickle expression such as happiness or frustration, but rather an inherent quality one gains over time, such as courage or integrity. Before maturity can be expressed, the one who expresses it must have significant confidence in himself, since self-confidence is the root of maturity. Being flexible and formulating one's own opinions or ideas are aspects of maturity, but neither is possible without self-confidence. The greatest aspect of maturity is the ability to make decisions which society does not agree with. Whether or not one follows through with these ideas is not important. What is important is the ability to make the decision. These decisions represent the greatest measure of maturity.
To reach maturity it requires loss of innocence. It’s a coming of age experience that changes the outlook on life forever. For example, when Antonio saw Lupito’s death scene he couldn’t believe what had happened, he said “I had started praying to myself from the moment I heard the first shot, and I never stopped praying until I reached home.”(Anaya 23), he was terrified of what he had seen and didn’t know
From when a child is born, to adulthood, everything done because of them, to them, or in front of them leaves a “puzzle piece” in their brain. By the time they have reached the age of 16 and up, they most likely have already decided or already have become the kind of person they want to be. What they have witnessed and experienced throughout the years of their upbringing has left enough puzzle pieces for them to piece together the type of person they will be. If the child witnesses abuse, they will remember that. If the child witnesses prejudice and racism, they will remember that. If the child witnesses the complete opposite of that, such as acceptance, fairness, and acts of love; they will remember that. From the ages of ten to fifteen, research shows that “early adolescent brain goes through a growth...
actions people take as adults. Not every person who experiences trauma as a child grows up to
Carol S. Dweck, a social psychologist and a writer, explores that people who gain benefits from learning from their mistakes are more likely to develop to maturity. A mistake is a step toward success and if one makes changes and prevents his errors from happening he is a step closer to his success and able to grow up to his mature self. Agreeing with Dweck, by learning from mistakes people are taught through experiences and it helps to deeply imbed the knowledge into them. Therefore, People begin to aware their faults and start off to change themselves into mature person to be able to fit in the adult society. Adulthood is the experience every living person has to encounter. Growing up to maturity means having
However, when we get into old age, we are wiser and begin to show signs of contentment of the events to come in the remainder of this particular era. At a young age , the do things that are done tend to be irrational, immature and inconsiderate.. From a personal point of view,
At a stage like this, and feeling this way can be dangerous for a young child’s development. For example, On the ABC show called “The Family”, young Adam was kidnapped during his mother’s rally to promote becoming the mayor. In this situation, his kidnapping affected the whole family in traumatic ways. It effected Adam tremendously because he was only 8-years-old during the kidnapping. Adam would hope that his family would find him. But, as time went on he realized he would never be found (“Sweet Jane” The Family, ABC, Television). Adam was never found because he got sick and passed while he was being held captive. There was another child with him, named Ben, which was also being held captive. Ben was finally able to escape from his captor. When a child loses hope, as Adam did, they never develop a healthy level of hopeful thinking (Wilner, 2011). Another example of a child feeling helpless after a traumatic event is myself. After my aunt passed away, I felt like there was no one to explain or help me with the pain I had and saw (Julien, 2016). My mother, sister, and I would always go to my aunt’s house, in Miami, for the summer. My mother, sister, and I always had a fantastic time with her. Then when I found out she passed, I could not help but to think what her children were going through. When your own mother dies, and you are at a young
Growing up for me some would say it was rather difficult and in some ways I would agree. There have been a lot of rough times that I have been through. This has and will affect my life for the rest of my life. The leading up to adoption, adoption and after adoption are the reasons my life were difficult.
Throughout the course of a person’s life, they will face many situations where self-regulation of the emotions is needed to make decisions that can determine a positive outcome of a given situation. Most adult are able to think about the consequences of their actions before a situation gets out of hand. They have, through experience, the understanding and knowledge that for every action there is a reaction and the decision you make at this given time may affect some other aspect of your life. An example of this would be a scenario where a person is driving and someone cuts them off. The outcome of a crisis situation such as this depends on the action of the person who was cut off. Some adults will react aggressively as in instances of “road rage.” A more mature adult would simply count to ten and continue as if nothing untoward happened.
When you grow older you tend to get more mature. You tend to get more mature by going through challenges/risky actions in your life. An example of this is the main character in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jim Hawkins. Jim goes through many challenges/ risky actions throughout his life. From each challenge he grows more mature.
Now, that I am older and more mature, I can do the things I have always wanted to do as well as the things I never knew I wanted to do. I can do without authority; I can do without a plan, but all within reason. I can get a job to earn money, and know not to do it away. I can live on my own with said money, but all I could afford is a dismal apartment. At this point, I am all but disillusioned by what I thought was freedom. Though still with my goals, they know longer seem to fit. What I Iooked forward to, I would rather not see.
Innocence and maturity comes with experiences and not with age. One’s childhood innocence is never lost, it simply plants the seed for the flower of maturity to bloom. It seems that almost every adult chooses to either forget or ignore this childhood vulnerability. But ironically, it was this quality that pushed them into adulthood in the first place. At the peak of their childhood, their post climactic innocence allows room for the foundation of maturity to to grow.
As a child we lost things as a family like our house. I had to grow up quickly with some of the hardships that arose and I think I lost trust in the adults around me. I then as an adult have lost boyfriends and jobs. If I were to dig deeper into my psyche I would say my reactions were always the same. I experienced emotional pain, more distrust, and a harder exterior. Things seem unfair like everything was out of my control. But when I examine my situations a little differently now that I have gain more life experience, I think it was my outlook. Or how those thought were shaped as a child. Also in my adult years I lost two friends to death. One was an ex boyfriend who had immigrated to Canada after I immigrated to New York. Even thought we were no longer romantically involved we still stayed in touch as friends. He was announced as missing in the news reports and three weeks later he was found and the cause of death was determined a suicide. This was upsetting. I felt sadness and a loss. More importantly I felt I was entitled to my loss as it was a personal relationship I had to him, unlike my grandmother’s which removed me from the situation
Members of society today are becoming more fragile because of how they grow up. Children are being told exactly how to live and are afraid to mess up. Parents do not have confidence in their children, so they do everything for them. A child can not learn from a mistake if he or she can not make one. Children are losing learning experiences that assist them in maturing.
Childhood involves living in the present moment as children are unaware of perceptions beyond what is in the now, and as a result experience much less stress and anxiety. Experiencing negative emotions such as regret or guilt become more present in adulthood, as well as fearing of what is to come. Childhood tends to be a time in which the person does not care what other people think of them, allowing them to be more carefree. In contrast, adulthood consists of more life experiences which may lead adults to be apprehensive to try new things, aware of times that they have not been successful in the past. A psychologist, Dr J. Smith, states that “as adults we are aware of concepts that we fear, like guilt and failure, which may lead to increased anxiety.” Smith helps suggest that because adults have experienced more in the past and are attentive to what can possibly go wrong, they are more fearful, unlike children who are inexperienced and