Question

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Why do you think there is a negative stigma against adolescents in the U.S.?

Talk to your parents and/ or grandparents and ask them about their experience as adolescents. You can consider expanding this into a topic for your project, but here, provide a very brief summary of some of the similarities and some of the major differences from your own experience.

Do you agree with G. Stanley Hall’s assertion that adolescence is a time of “storm and stress?” Or does the current “modified” view (see also pp. 12-13, Historical Focus box) ring more true? Refer to your own experiences with parents, mood disruptions, and behavior in adolescence as evidence for your opinion.

In your opinion, at what age do you think you are truly an adult? Where is the line between adolescence and adulthood? Is it based on a specific age, or maybe maturity in some area(s)? Why? Compare your belief with the different viewpoints expressed in the table on Slide 12 about the “Boundaries of adolescence.”

When did you first feel (or have you yet felt) like you had (have) reached adulthood? Why (or why not, if applicable)?

Answer 1

Why do you think there is a negative stigma against adolescents in the U.S.?

-The adolescents are just growing up and they don’t have any life experiences. So people think that they might don’t have a perception towards anything and most of that time they are taken wrong. People even think that if an adolescent is rich then he would be a brat.

Talk to your parents and/ or grandparents and ask them about their experience as adolescents.

-Well, my parents and grandparents did not had any negative experiences as adolescents, because their parents were understanding and they people with whom they used to handout were mature.

Do you agree with G. Stanley Hall’s assertion that adolescence is a time of “storm and stress?

-Yes, I agree with him, because in your teenage you are confused and you don’t know what to do and you some times take a wrong path. Which leads to stress in life, of your and your parents.

Refer to your own experiences with parents, mood disruptions, and behavior in adolescence as evidence for your opinion.

-when I was facing adolescence my parents guided me, as they knew that I would face problems. But still I was confused but I accepted what was going on with me, even though I was in stress. But the time will not remain as it is, it will move.

In your opinion, at what age do you think you are truly an adult? Where is the line between adolescence and adulthood? Is it based on a specific age, or maybe maturity in some area(s)?

-According to law, you are an adult when you turn 18, but when you are mature enough to understand good an bad then your an adult. It is all maturity, even in your adolescence, you can be a mature person. But after 18 you are an adult.