Family is one of the most important factors in adolescent development. Family can create or destroy personality, it can strengthen or undermine adolescents’ psychic health. Family prepares a child for life, it is his first and deepest source of social ideals, and it lays down the foundations of behavior. This is when your teen begin embracing developmental skills such as independent thinking, leadership and self- esteem. Indication that conflict in families occur when one member feels as if their values, beliefs, way of life and territory are threatened. (Positive Parent of Teens, October 25, 2013, By Shannon Marks).Adolescence is a time when a person is torn by conflicting feelings. Teens experience a natural desire to develop an identity outside of the parents' concerned supervision. The teen feels as if he is mature enough to be independent and be capable due to certain situations. Teens feel as if independence is the main priority into becoming adults. Also, stated that independence is the ultimate goal of the adolescent. (Huckhouse.org/independence)
Adolescence is the phase of life when teenagers form personal identities. The environment in which an adolescent grows up also plays an important role in their identity development. At this point of life your teen has had 12 or 13years to develop his and her ideas. First people they express their thoughts with is their parents, and if you are willing to listen it will help her into becoming an adult who will understand the importance of listening and negotiating ideas. Adolescence has been described as a phase of life beginning in and ending in society (Peterson, 1988).Indeed, adolescence may be defined as the period within the life span when most of a person’s biological, cognitive, psychological from high school to the worlds of work, university, or child rearing.
, and social characteristics are changing from what is typically considered adult-like(Lerner & Spanier, 1980). Among young...