A Quotes
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“Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.”
“Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.”
Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.”
“Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)”
“Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.”
Source: Arrow in the blue: an autobiography
“Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.”
“Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.”
“Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.”
Source: Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)
“Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.”
“Adolescence is a period when the social landscape undergoes a massive shift. Suddenly, it’s not just about family, it’s about peers and where one stands in the hierarchy among them. The need for acceptance becomes necessary, and it feels as if one’s survival depends on it.”
Source: B.E.T. On It: A Psychological Approach to Coaching Gen Z and Beyond
“Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors.”
“adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same time we discover free will. I wonder that it doesn't tear us off our bases for good and all.”
Source: Reprisal
“Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.”
Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood
“Adolescence is a time of self-discovery. But discovery doesn't have to mean defiance.
Teens do need to find out who they want to be, but they should be free to select qualities and values held by their parents as well as those not held by them. In our opinion, reaching adulthood does not require relational tension. Defiance of authority is not a growing pain but a behavioral choice. Rebelling against parents doesn't make you an adult any more than rebelling against a government makes you president.”
Source: On Becoming Teenwise: Building a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime
“Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When the parents disconnect, the children have no base to move away from or return to. They aren't ready to face the world alone. With divorce, adolescents feel abandoned, and they are outraged at that abandonment. They are angry at both parents for letting them down. Often they feel that their parents broke the rules and so now they can too.”
“Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.”
“Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held.”
Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
“Adolescence is a turbulent time of life, and parents are understandably concerned about their children. There is a fine line between wanting to know if your child is in trouble and respecting their privacy.”
Source: What Do I Do Now? The basics of parenting babies ... without stress
“Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.”
Source: A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life
“Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.”
“Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physically, intellectually, emotionally and there is so much potential.”
“Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.”
“Adolescence is like a heavy rain. Even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once again.
(From 'In Those Bygone Years, The Girl We All Went After' the novel)”
“Adolescence is like cactus.”
“Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.”
Source: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel
“Adolescence is never graceful or beautiful. Our first steps are wobbly, full of stumbles and spills. Our first words are mispronounced and barely comprehendible. Our first kisses are sloppy and wet. The process of breaking sexual thresholds is far from sexy. It will be a long time until being a penetrator outgrows the feel of a grade school science experiment where I fill my paper mache volcano with vinegar and baking soda, giggling and high-fiving my lab partner once it explodes.”
“Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.”
Source: Whatever
“Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.”
“Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.”
Source: Scar Tissue
“Adolescence is supposed to be an identity Schrodinger's Cat: multiple simultaneous states which eventually collapse into only one. The goal of adulthood is to let go of the other possible existences and to make the best of the one. A successful adult is one who understands that it doesn't matter which life you ultimately pick, only that you live it well.”
“Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.”
“Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.”
“Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.”
Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood
“Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props.”
Source: Going Vintage
“Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.”
Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood
“Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.”
Source: The Summer House: A Trilogy
“Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.”
Source: Reviving Ophelia
“Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.”
Source: Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)
“Adolescence isn't about relationships, its about dating. Its suppose to be relaxed, and fun. Isn't that what being a teenager is all about?”
“Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.”
“Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.”
“Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.”
Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood
“Adolescence shows us that the most interesting part of the brain evolved to be shaped minimally by genes and maximally by experience; that’s how we learn –context, context, context.”
Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults and spend their time like adults. They are more likely, instead, to act like children--not by being immature, necessarily, but by postponing the usual activities of adults. Adolescence is now an extension of childhood rather than the beginning of adulthood.”
Source: iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
“Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males.”
“Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?”
“Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.”
“Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.”
“Adolescent and young adult children will continue to question or even challenge their parents’ decisions, choices and wisdom – until they become parents themselves! This is irrespective of whether the parents are regressive or progressive, controlling or empowering, conservative or liberal. This is just how Life works. So, a simple way to zero-anxiety parenting is to offer your perspective and step back. And, over time, evolve into being a by-invitation-only parent – which is, offer that perspective only when it is sought!”
“Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards a mother's excessive concern, or even excessive control, but towards her inability to see, and appreciate, their maturing identity.”