CHOICES MADE IN ADOLESCENT STAGE CAST LONG SHADOWS INTO ADULT LIFE...
This is the first in a set of articles on this subject of CHOICES MADE IN THE ADOLESCENT STAGE CAST LONG SHADOWS INTO ADULT LIFE... article 1..."For far far too long we have believed all we needed to do with our young adolescence was to give them a few weeks sex education in the last year of their Primary School stage and then another few weeks of sex and drug education in the first couple of years in their High School stage and everything would be just fine.
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No, is the answer and it has not and still is not fine. This has not been fine in the past and now after far far too many years of just hoping they would grow through this stage and become valuable functioning adults has not actually worked for many either.
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The long shadows cast into our adult lives from the choices we made in our adolescence stage are being played out all around the world right now. The consequences of ignoring and attempting to placate past generations of adolescence has now created entire modern societies facing both financial, environmental and moral bankruptcy.
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When our beautiful children, who we love dearly turn 11, great trepidation and fear walks into the hearts of most parents. Those parents who had the hardest adolescent experiences themselves generally enter this stage, of their own children’s adolescence, with the greatest fears if they are conscious of it or not.
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For reasons beyond my imagination our Western societies collectively practice amnesia of their own generation’s adolescent stage when it comes the turn of the next group of children entering that critical juncture. With each new group of adolescents passing into their own adolescent stage and the only tool available to most parents is to just hope and pray they will survive also needs to be challenged".
CHOICES MADE IN ADOLESCENT STAGE CAST LONG SHADOWS INTO ADULT LIFE...
This is the first in a set of articles on this subject of CHOICES MADE IN THE ADOLESCENT STAGE CAST LONG SHADOWS INTO ADULT LIFE... article 1..."For far far too long we have believed all we needed to do with our young adolescence was to give them a few weeks sex education in the last year of their Primary School stage and then another few weeks of sex and drug education in the first couple of years in their High School stage and everything would be just fine.
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No, is the answer and it has not and still is not fine. This has not been fine in the past and now after far far too many years of just hoping they would grow through this stage and become valuable functioning adults has not actually worked for many either.
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The long shadows cast into our adult lives from the choices we made in our adolescence stage are being played out all around the world right now. The consequences of ignoring and attempting to placate past generations of adolescence has now created entire modern societies facing both financial, environmental and moral bankruptcy.
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When our beautiful children, who we love dearly turn 11, great trepidation and fear walks into the hearts of most parents. Those parents who had the hardest adolescent experiences themselves generally enter this stage, of their own children’s adolescence, with the greatest fears if they are conscious of it or not.
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For reasons beyond my imagination our Western societies collectively practice amnesia of their own generation’s adolescent stage when it comes the turn of the next group of children entering that critical juncture. With each new group of adolescents passing into their own adolescent stage and the only tool available to most parents is to just hope and pray they will survive also needs to be challenged".