Monthly Archives: September 2018

Pubertal Timing

Perspectives & History of Adolescence

“… family adversity -including instability in parents’ relationships- has been identified as a fairly consistent accelerator of pubertal timing.” (Johnson, Crosnoe, Elder, 2011, p. 4)

              There are a few remarks from this research that I don’t agree with or not convinced by, but they’re usually followed by: “The possibility needs to be studied more explicitly,” or “future research efforts should include…” One comment I strongly agree with from this article is that if there is instability in the student’s parents’ relationship it could accelerate ‘pubertal timing.’ Basically, any or some instability at home that is witnessed by the student can cause consequences in their school career, for example: creating bad habits like poor time management, being unmotivated or unorganized. I can relate to this because my home life affected how I was as a student, from primary school and sometimes even now as a graduate student. I didn’t have teachers that would notice my bad habits and try to help me through them. During my first year of college I had to work on reversing my bad habits, and to this day I’m still working on it. In my future classroom I hope to know what my students home life is like or if they’re going through a tough moment, but there’s that possibility that I may not know what’s going on in their personal life. For that reason, I think as an educator we should all incorporate mini workshops on how to manage time and how to be organized so that we can remind students that it is possible to be on top of their work, and to keep their education first.

How Adolescence Is Important

Urban Adolescents

“Linking adolescence to childhood and adulthood.”

I think the linking adolescence to childhood and adulthood is very important and should be paid attention by educators and parents. Teenagers would develop some habits, values, and ideologies during their adolescence period because teenagers would form those habits values and thoughts from the adolescence period. And these things would impact them in the future.
What is more, accepting good education is significant for adolescence. Take myself as an example; my parents sent me to an excellent school to learn knowledge; I also cultivate some good habits, values, and ideologies. Having a good education makes people not to steal, rob or other things that vary from our social rules. I believe that bullying and taking drugs would decrease at schools when students are accepting good values and habits. I also think that how your adolescence would decide how your future would be. The adolescence period is like the starting of the life course; once you step in the right direction, you will have a prosperous future.

Work-Life Balance

Urban Adolescents

“One strategy involves pursuit of higher education
through a combination of schooling and steady,
moderate employment. Having learned to balance
school and work during high school, many youth are
able to follow a path that continues this effective time
management while in college. A pattern of steady
work across the high school and college years has an
even bigger impact on adolescents in weaker academic
positions those with fewer academic resources
to draw on in their pursuit of a Bachelor’s
degree”(Johnson, Crosnoe, Elder p.175).

I don’t know why this never occurred to me before; developing the ability to balance work and school would bring advantages later on in life, especially in college. Continue reading Work-Life Balance →

Let’s understand to understand

Perspectives & History of Adolescence, Reaching Adolescents and How to Respond, Urban Adolescents

“By doing so, we en- hance an understanding of adolescence, the life course more generally, and the developmental pro- cesses that connect the two. We shouldn’t isolate all of these ages as complete separate chapters of life”. (Johnson, Crosnoe & Elder, 2011, p.274)

As read in the article, it is basic psychology, or at least general knowledge, that all of our experiences can shape much of who we become and what we do in life. Every single person is a product of past encounters along with new ones that allow for personal growth to alter and shift concurrently with time. These shifts are also based on various external influences as well as one’s intrapersonal relationship- which diverges throughout the span of life. Continue reading Let’s understand to understand →

MVP #3–Long Road to Adulthood Is Growing Even Longer

Urban Adolescents

“We have not developed and strengthened institutions to serve young adults,” Mr.
Furstenberg said, “because we’re still living with the archaic idea that people enter
adulthood in their late teens or early 20s.”

This article was published 8 years ago, today we are still talking about the same issue and it seems like this issue is being even worse in this decade. Personally, I think this article is so true–I always hate to admit but I have to have my parents’ help to finish my school and etc. However, every generation is facing their own problems, there is no perfect generation just like there is no perfect person. Although the inequality is still existing, the average life quality is much better than the last generation. My point of view is that as long as young adults can afford their life, we should not put too much judgement on them.