Sentences with phrase «enter adolescence»

However, parents commonly withdraw their involvement in diabetes care as youth enter adolescence [25 - 28], often solely as a function of age and not youths» capacity for autonomous self - care [21,23,29,30].

It tested the hypothesis that, compared to boys, girls become increasingly vulnerable to maternal depression as they enter adolescence.

Sleep patterns alter as children enter adolescence as a result of changes in hormones, including the sleep hormone melatonin.

The basic theory is that middle - class kids enter adolescence with certain working models in their heads: what I can achieve; how to control impulses; how to work hard.

It may be that adolescents vulnerable to depression enter adolescence with greater sensitivity to social evaluation, or it may be that the experience of frequent peer rejection serves to sensitize or heighten activity in these regions.

Now, ironically, I am, to a very large extent, someone else: not an adolescent girl but the lawyer mother of three girls (and a boy) soon to enter adolescence.

Restlessly, I wonder how the conditions of possibility for young people in Canada could be transformed; I feel a sense of growing urgency as time passes; how might changes be effected before my own children enter adolescence?

Smaller breeds enter adolescence earlier in life than larger breeds, so there's no strict age in which your pup will begin acting like a rebel, but you'll notice it immediately.

Children face barriers because of their parents» undocumented status, often related to poverty, fears of deportation, and more, while undocumented youth themselves face increasing barriers to social mobility as they enter adolescence and hope to obtain driver's licenses, afterschool work, and financial aid for college.

As they enter adolescence, they need to refill their stock of what may be the single most important — and threatened — commodity of teenage wellbeing: Sleep.

For the last two decades, education researchers and developmental psychologists have been documenting changes in attitudes and motivation as children enter adolescence, changes that some hypothesize are exacerbated by middle - school curricula and practices.

Because students enter adolescence during their middle - school years, examining the effect of start times as students age allows me to test this theory.

Many older children in developing countries enter adolescence undernourished, which increases their vulnerability to disease and premature death.

This type of unsupervised play readies boys for participating in real hunts as they enter adolescence.

Mammal bodies don't just add some cells and tissue as they enter adolescence.

«Mothers who are very directive when their children are toddlers often tend to still be controlling when their children enter adolescence,» Ispa said.

When the sons enter adolescence, they often become the ones who are dissatisfied with their fathers.

Did your child enter adolescence with a sudden cloud of distance, brooding, sullen behavior, and a desperate need to be as far away from your family as possible?

About 10 percent of all school - age kids skip breakfast, and by the time kids enter adolescence, as many as 30 percent have completely given up the first meal of the day, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

As he and his friends enter adolescence, they take up first - person shooter video games.

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook doesn't want to be dismissed as an Internet has - been before its social network even enters its adolescence.

The students Brooks examined in 2001, who had entered adolescence after the fall of the Berlin Wall, spent their formative years in a world predicted by Francis Fukuyama in 1992: «The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.»

If the modern world was conceived in the Renaissance, it came to birth at the Reformation and entered adolescence at the Enlightenment.

Is it possible that so many young girls today entering adolescence do not realise the difference between wanting to be attractive to boys, and letting themselves be provocative?

A child at age 9 is entering adolescence and has one foot in the unsure young child stage and another in the maturing teenage years.

Young people entering adolescence face emotionally and developmentally different challenges to those entering adulthood.

I can't help but feel that genetics must play a huge role in her physical differences, and that if she notices that you think she's too fat, it could cause some HUGE problems for her, especially as she enters adolescence soon.

That will be none too soon if Harry doesn't want to steal up on the «Twilight» franchise, since he and his friends, especially poor Ron Weasley, have definitively entered adolescence.

Orphaned wizard Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is entering adolescence and anxiously anticipating a third year of study at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry,... read more

Orphaned wizard Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is entering adolescence and anxiously anticipating a third year of study at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, his refuge from life with the Dursleys, Harry's viciously coarse and stupid relatives.

Turning from race to class differences, we find that more than half (51 percent) of low - income children entering adolescence were living in single - parent families around the time the Moynihan Report was published.

The authors note that in 1965, the year Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote his report entitled «The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,» 51 percent of low - income children entering adolescence were living in single - parent families.

Once I learned there was such a thing as sin and I entered adolescence and came across a sin I really liked, I began to be convinced that my sins actually caused her destructive episodes.

She enters her adolescence polite, good - hearted, bookish and as eccentric as Charles.

This is especially true if active socialization stops before the dog enters adolescence.

For many dogs, five or six months and younger is considered puppyhood; then your pup enters adolescence.

Our 5 week Basic Manners class is ideal for most dogs; whether entering adolescence and eager to learn, newly acquired and seeking connection with family members, or as enrichment for your favorite friend.

Dogs entering adolescence are just realizing how fun and awesome the world around them is.

If not gotten under control by the time the - puppy enters adolescence, not only will you have a less cooperative teenager to handle, but also a larger, stronger jaw to deal with.

These often depict black girls entering adolescence, evoking moments of drama, strength and joy.

Significantly perhaps, both artists had entered adolescence in the postwar era that gave birth to the Teenager.

For example, the combination of guilt and fear a young woman with anorexia may have experienced on entering adolescence, confused about beginning to emotionally separate from her parents yet (because of her restricted emotional literacy) ill - at ease with her peer group — facing a developmental crisis she had been unable to articulate.

As boys and girls entered adolescence, the trajectories of aggression began to diverge.

As the child enters adolescence, the biological, cognitive, and emotional changes of the period spark transformations in the parent - child relationship.

By the later follow - ups, most children in this sample were entering adolescence and young adulthood.

What is more, parents may themselves attain greater psychological and physical health through an enhanced ability to cope with stress stemming from the dual - developmental transition of entering midlife as their children are entering adolescence.

Not exact matches

In telling detail, he describes the experience of leaving «infancy» and the «go - go» years and entering «adolescence.»

With a study finding that most people didn't feel they had officially entered adulthood until the age of 29, MarketWatch's Trey Williams and Maria LaMagna talk the key moments when people leave adolescence behind.

Tweens entering into pre adolescence are beginning to leave behind some of their childlike behaviours.

But free time is important for children, especially as they enter puberty and adolescence.