Sentences with phrase «times of adolescence»

It's been decades since the darker times of his adolescence, when, starting in 1975 when he was 15, he said a priest at a Catholic high school on Long Island molested him.

These self help books will aid your teenage daughter during the trying times of adolescence, and parents can get a few tips from them too!

By the time of adolescence, unless positive steps are taken to counteract it, segregation has emerged as a dominant pattern.

Understanding the complicated time of adolescence will help you best guide your child through it.

The time of adolescence is longer than ever and yet society today offers little support in understanding or facilitating this transition.

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But it could make adolescence a rougher time for everyone: children confronted with two equally legitimate images of adult sexual roles would be rudderless for many years, and no one knows what personal or social toll would result from this prolonged period of sexual confusion.

◾ LGBT youth who reported higher levels of family rejection during adolescence are three times more likely to use illegal drugs.

In a culture that celebrates extended adolescence (think Old School, The Hangover and Hall Pass) perhaps it's time to be reminded of what's good about growing up.

Adolescence is a trying time for all young people; they experience a great deal of self - doubt, insecurity and fear as they wrestle with the physical and emotional changes which accompany growing up.

Trafford found, in conducting hundreds of interviews, that «my time» begins with a transition period similar to adolescence.

She paints a vivid of picture of women both more privileged and less happy than at any time in history and of men absolved of all responsibility by the sexual revolution but also stunted, trapped in a perpetual adolescence.

Young couples who have not completed the central task of adolescence — achieving a sense of identity — have a difficult time.

This time the causes of stress had to do with three major components of identity problems in late adolescence: career, the opposite sex and philosophy of life (Hetzel & McMichael 1987).

Adolescence is a time of spiritual romance, a time for forming (not dismantling) faith.

At the same time, the whole process of creating an adoptive family raises many concerns about identity and belonging; concerns not unlike those we are all faced with: Three professionals who work with adoptive families (Anderson, Piantanida, and Anderson, 1993) list the questions about identity and belonging that an adopted child will likely have as she or he reaches adolescence:

But there are many youngsters who have been brought up in the Faith but who in adolescence are overwhelmed by the atheist intellectual atmosphere of our times and who begin to assume that you can't have a modern scientific outlook and also be a Catholic - that God can not be demonstrated to exist at all.

Because adolescence usually marks the end of religious education, people get stuck in a sort of time warp.

With my adolescence sneaking around the corner, the Birds made another serious run in 1964, as manager Hank Bauer (whose face was aptly described as resembling a clenched fist) graced the cover of Time and Brooks Robinson was named A.L. most valuable player.

Adolescence is a time of coming alive — to oneself, to peers, to the wider world of nature and spirit.

Bonhoeffer's conviction that the world has moved out of its adolescence and reached an adult phase implied a new interpretation of the intellectual history of the West since the thirteenth century, and demanded a full, ungrudging, affirmative attitude to the secularizing process which began at that time.

Abernethy (2005) found that child athletes who participated in a variety of sports and specialized in adolescence tended to be more consistent performers, experienced fewer injuries, and were involved in sports for a longer time than their early - specializing peers.

Science briefs: Helpful findings for parents of teens - Family conflict; Sleep researchers advocate later school start times; The future of adolescence.

I think there are also periods of time when parents don't like their child because of a certain stage their son or daughter might be going through — adolescence, for example.

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.

A number of changes conspire during adolescence to make autonomy more important than at any other time.

Adolescence is a risky, dangerous time of life.

Or parents start to see warning signs of substance abuse or signs of mental illness as adolescence is often the time social and emotional problems surface.

Or, parents start to see warning signs of substance abuse or signs of emotional problems as adolescence is often the time these social and emotional problems surface.

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Research also suggests that pre - or early adolescence may be the best time to start NMT in order to reduce the number of ACL injuries female athletes suffer.

Adolescence is a time of transition not just for teens, but for their parents too.

Part of maturing — for everyone — is taking that external structure that's been imposed upon you from birth and internalizing it by the time you're in adolescence.

We envision a time when Project World School becomes an integral part of self - directed learner's adolescence.

The fact of the matter is, parents need to spend more time with their children when they reach adolescence, not less.

There is evidence (Rudel, Fenton, Ackerman, Euling, & Makris, 2011) to support a theory that exposure to high levels of certain environmental contaminants, namely dioxin and other endocrine disruptors, while in utero (exposure to accumulated contaminants in your mother's body before you're born) can predispose a woman to have insufficient breast growth during adolescence and pregnancy, the two times in her life her breasts should be growing.

The children of teenage mothers are more likely to have lower school achievement and drop out of high school, have more health problems, be incarcerated at some time during adolescence, give birth as a teenager, and face unemployment as a young adult.

Developmental Milestones Middle adolescence is a time of physical, mental, cognitive, and sexual changes for your teenager.

Adolescence is a particularly important time of growth and learning.

Adolescence is often a time of great stress and turmoil not only for kids going through it, but for you, their parents as well.

So as you switch to one nap, try to ease her morning crankiness by establishing «quiet time,» during which you read or listen to soft music, says George J. Cohen, M.D., a pediatrician and author of American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Sleep: Birth Through Adolescence.

As the first wave of children grown «God's way» approach adolescence, it's a good time to evaluate the fruits of the GKGW parenting style.

While it is believed that these particular symbiotic strains have evolved over time as a way of kick - starting the digestive processes of very young humans, their discovery has prompted researchers to further investigate the possible benefits of other forms of probiotic bacteria during early childhood and adolescence.

Adolescence takes a long time for a young person to complete due to the complexity of society, the rate of social and technological evolution and all the knowledge and skills required to master young adult independence.

At the same time, while remaining far removed from the challenges of adolescence, they will become increasingly aware of (and curious about) it.

Because adolescence is the time when your tween goes from concept to concrete personality-wise, allow them to work out the nuances of their character traits under your supervision without too much push back.

Or parents start to see warning signs of substance abuse or mental health problems as adolescence is often the time social and emotional problems surface.

(Adolescence is a time of rapid growth and teen girls need additional iron to replace what they lose monthly when they begin menstruating.)

Whilst we all demonstrate challenging behaviour at times, particularly during adolescence as we develop a sense of self separate to that of our parents, challenging behaviour as a label which leads to punishment is uniquely applied to those with learning disabilities, and is often their ticket into an Assessment Treatment Unit.

«We are interested in how a human brain constructs over time to become the adult brain,» says Nim Tottenham of Columbia University, whose work focuses on identifying sensitive periods of brain development from childhood into adolescence.

The study, published today in the journal SLEEP, shows that children reporting frequent nightmares before the age of 12 were three and a half times more likely to suffer from psychotic experiences in early adolescence.