“The development of emotional autonomy begins with individuation from parent and ends with the achievement of a sense of identity” (Collins & Steinberg, 2008)
This idea of individuation from parents, along with the achievement of independence or isolation from any generation, younger and specially older, during adolescence, has always gotten me to think that the process for achieving something new, something original, something distant from the references they have, still validates de references themselves. The harder a teenager tries to be as different as possible from their parents, the more that reference of who the parents are becomes a part of the argument. How hard is it for this transforming being to find the isolation that guides its identity search, when surrounded with pre-though molds, manners, ways, models? How do parents of future adolescents in countries like Colombia deal with the behavioral and emotional autonomy, when safety is such an issue and overprotection becomes an instinct of survival?