Adolescence Without Tears – The Montessori High School A special issue from Tomorrow’s Child.
Adolescence is the middle ground between childhood and the world of adults. Teenagers are neither child nor adult. One minute they are one, next the other. Their bodies are growing overnight, and as sudden spurts of growth begin, they often become awkward as the body’s center of balance is thrown off. As their muscular development proceeds, many literally don’t know their own strength.
Leaving childhood behind them, teenagers enter a stage of life in which they are betrayed by their own bodies. With the onset of puberty, both their bodies and emotions tend to change dramatically. Some mature precociously and have to learn to deal with the body of a 16 year old and the way that it affects their social relationships with peers and older teens, while others wait impatiently for puberty, convinced that they’ll never mature. They have to cope with emerging sexuality and hormonally driven conflicting emotions. It is normally a time of life marked by uncertainty and self-consciousness.
Between their changing bodies, changing social roles, the emergence of mature sexuality, and raging hormones, it is not surprising that early adolescents worry so much about the image they project to the outer world!
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