HISTORY OF THE ADOLESCENT STAGE
ARTICLE 2…”After the second world war in the Western country’s there was a great number of births around the same time and that generation was called the Baby Boomers. It was this generation of Baby Boomers, a critical mass of souls that would eventually grow up and experience the very first collective adolescent stage the human race has ever experienced.
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Prior to the Baby Boomers generation all past generations had simply gone from being a child one day and an adult the next. Children stayed children until a parent died or got sick and then the eldest child was expected to step up and take on the parent’s role. When a child got married they were expected overnight to just be able to step up and become an adult and take on all responsibilities expected of husbands and wives.
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The children were not taught in any classroom on how to be an adult it was just expected that when they were needed to do an adults role they would. The way the children learned how to do everything they were expected to do, as an adult, was simply to model their behaviour on all the behaviour the present adult population was exhibiting.
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Whatever and however the adult population behaved towards each other or the way the systems were set up in the past were simply expected to be maintained generation after generation. This system all came smashing down when the soldiers who returned from the battle fields of the second world war returned to their family homes and communities. Everything had changed. The male soldiers, deeply affected by the traumas of the battle fields could not simply return to their old ways nor could the majority of the female population who had been forced to step up and out of their past subservient and passive roles.
-
Before the second world war relationships and friendships were very simple. Relationships and friendships were very black and white before the Baby Boomers generation. Children were expected to treat all men just as they treated their fathers and all women were to be treated as they would treat their mothers. This attitude was expected to follow on into their adult lives as well. A woman would treat her male bosses at work and her husband, in the home, with the exact same subservient and passive behaviour as she had been trained in her family home towards her father and brothers.
-
Well, that was the expected tradition and culture at those times. What was really happening behind closed doors and within the wider communities had already been shattered by the need for the female role to be widened and extensively changed. During the second world war, far too many jobs, traditionally owned by the male population had to be taken up by the women folk at home. With so many women left at home while their husbands, fathers and male employers were away in the army and somewhat disposed elsewhere the need to turn a blind eye to the old traditions and beliefs of who owned what jobs and roles in the western societies had to be put aside until their men folk returned. Well that was the theory.
-
It is when those men, who had survived the battle fields, returned home and were confronted with very changed women folk. The majority of men coming home from the fighting fields returned with all levels of post-traumatic stress and were simply expected to get back into their old lives. Those same men also expected to return to their family homes just as they had left them before they had gone off to war were then confronted with their female family members changed beyond recognition.
-
If these men were not stressed harshly enough from the fighting fields risking their very lives in the belief they were protecting their vulnerable families and loved ones back home they then found themselves confronted with their women folk who refused to go back to being subservient and passive.
The war that had been fought in foreign lands had now come into the soldiers own homes, right into their own relationships and friendships. The war the men had fought in the battle fields was now being fought in their homes and their loved ones had become the enemy.
-
All men were expected to treat all women with the same devotion and respect they had been trained in in their family homes prior to the second world war. Men were supposed to continue to nurture and protect their weaker women. Men were expected to be the stronger members of a community and women were meant to play roles subservient and passive towards all men in all areas of their lives regardless if in their jobs, at home or at school. The subservient and passive women were then expected to keep children away from men. Children during those times were the lowest of the low, the most subservient and the most passive members of all families.
-
After the second world war all levels of relationships and friendships were put under massive strain throughout the entire western world. The roles traditionally controlled by one gender group over another had slowly been forced to transform into what we see today. What started out as a trickle at the end of the 1800s is now a tsunami pushing away all old models, all out dated external systems and demanding each and every individual transform their own relational inner selves.
-
The battle fields had now gone internal.
-
The Baby Boomers had no idea what was being played out when they hit their adolescents and to a certain degree still do not understand what happened or why, 60 years later.
-
The scientific communities have been so busy watching the adult symptoms of the long shadows cast from their own adolescent stage they have generally missed that evolution occurs in the child stage of human development and gets consolidated in the adolescent stage. It is in the child stage that causes are set into motion and during adolescence, if those traumas are not shaken off beforehand, they get handed on to the individual and they believe the traumas define them.
-
After tracking my own grandmother’s family over those extraordinary and exponential changing years I found the majority of them could not form stable and strong family units. Traditionally large families, at those times of 8 to 13 children were common but after the second world war many of those families split apart and it is very common to find very little contact between the adult siblings later on in their lives. Everything connected to the family unit right through to world cultures were changed forever. There was no going back.
-
Relationships and friendships have been forced through immense transformation changes especially over the past 60 years. From the middle to the late 1800’s through to the first decades of the 21st century every fiber in the fabric of human relationships and friendships have been pulled and stretched to forms their participants still do not understand or recognise.
-
In today’s societies the adolescent stage is still happening within every individual with newer levels of development being forged though largely misunderstood and feared by the majority of adults.
-
The child brain works from a simple black and white level and is completely focused on “YOU”. It is “YOU” who holds the power over them, blaming everyone and everything for what they feel. The adolescent brain slowly awakens into consciousness around 11-12 and continues to around 15-16 years of age. During those few years of the adolescent cycle the young person slowly awakens and starts to see the hypocrisies and injustices abounding within the adult world.
-
With only a well-developed child brain of black and white thinking the adolescent, if left to their own devices over those precious few years, believes they either join in and take full advantage of the hypocrisies and injustices OR turn their back and reject what they see laid out in front of them.
It is at this point the adolescent consolidates all their childhood experiences and learning's and makes choices that then go onto cast very long shadows into the rest of their youth and adult lives.
-
It is during these very short years, from 11 to 16 years of age the adolescent has to experience the “I” stage and turn away from the “YOU” stage. Only after these few years of getting the “I” stage under their wings can they enter the next stage of youth where they start to develop the “WE” stage. What we see around us at present is the symptoms of individuals who attempt to hang onto immature stages and take them into stages which require new ways of being, new visions and new understandings. During the Baby Boomer stage individuals who attempted to prevent growth and not allow themselves to surrender to and move through the “I” stage and attempted to hold onto their child stage of “YOU” experienced symptoms of co-dependency and abundant forms of addictions.
-
This transforming “WE” stage the entire human race is now being forced to surrender to presently is witnessing the symptoms of those not wanting to relinquish the immature “I” stage instead of embracing the new maturing “WE” stage. Those symptoms include exploding proportions of individuals affected by higher grades of narcissism, psychopaths, gluttony, ravenous lust, exponential addictions and materialism plus the complete objectification and commodification of every living creature and environment left on the planet at present.
-
The life cycle of each human being is echoed throughout the entire human race development cycle. The human race through the Baby Boomer generation has experienced its adolescent stage and all generations to come over the following decades will be entering into an epoch change of directions and forced to focus in ways not seen or even imagined in past generations; the youth stage is gently being rolled out with each and every new baby now being born.
-
The Baby Boomer generation if looked at from this vantage point may simply be seen as the most self-indulged, privileged, entitled, selfish group of human beings ever to walk upon this earth. But if you fly up and take an eagles view and place this stage into the human cycle history you would see it is only a short stage humanity has had to endure, a stage that had to be traversed just as every individual has had to over the past 100 or so years to arrive at the next portal, the next juncture, the next stage in the maturing of the entire human race.
-
We need to take a fresh new look at the adolescents around us and the next group of children that reach this stage and guide them with a greater vision, a new mindset reflecting incredible opportunities awaiting them than simply handing them a sex and drug education package and leaving them to their own devises as the entire Baby Boomer generation found themselves.
HISTORY OF THE ADOLESCENT STAGE
ARTICLE 2…”After the second world war in the Western country’s there was a great number of births around the same time and that generation was called the Baby Boomers. It was this generation of Baby Boomers, a critical mass of souls that would eventually grow up and experience the very first collective adolescent stage the human race has ever experienced.
-
Prior to the Baby Boomers generation all past generations had simply gone from being a child one day and an adult the next. Children stayed children until a parent died or got sick and then the eldest child was expected to step up and take on the parent’s role. When a child got married they were expected overnight to just be able to step up and become an adult and take on all responsibilities expected of husbands and wives.
-
The children were not taught in any classroom on how to be an adult it was just expected that when they were needed to do an adults role they would. The way the children learned how to do everything they were expected to do, as an adult, was simply to model their behaviour on all the behaviour the present adult population was exhibiting.
-
Whatever and however the adult population behaved towards each other or the way the systems were set up in the past were simply expected to be maintained generation after generation. This system all came smashing down when the soldiers who returned from the battle fields of the second world war returned to their family homes and communities. Everything had changed. The male soldiers, deeply affected by the traumas of the battle fields could not simply return to their old ways nor could the majority of the female population who had been forced to step up and out of their past subservient and passive roles.
-
Before the second world war relationships and friendships were very simple. Relationships and friendships were very black and white before the Baby Boomers generation. Children were expected to treat all men just as they treated their fathers and all women were to be treated as they would treat their mothers. This attitude was expected to follow on into their adult lives as well. A woman would treat her male bosses at work and her husband, in the home, with the exact same subservient and passive behaviour as she had been trained in her family home towards her father and brothers.
-
Well, that was the expected tradition and culture at those times. What was really happening behind closed doors and within the wider communities had already been shattered by the need for the female role to be widened and extensively changed. During the second world war, far too many jobs, traditionally owned by the male population had to be taken up by the women folk at home. With so many women left at home while their husbands, fathers and male employers were away in the army and somewhat disposed elsewhere the need to turn a blind eye to the old traditions and beliefs of who owned what jobs and roles in the western societies had to be put aside until their men folk returned. Well that was the theory.
-
It is when those men, who had survived the battle fields, returned home and were confronted with very changed women folk. The majority of men coming home from the fighting fields returned with all levels of post-traumatic stress and were simply expected to get back into their old lives. Those same men also expected to return to their family homes just as they had left them before they had gone off to war were then confronted with their female family members changed beyond recognition.
-
If these men were not stressed harshly enough from the fighting fields risking their very lives in the belief they were protecting their vulnerable families and loved ones back home they then found themselves confronted with their women folk who refused to go back to being subservient and passive.
The war that had been fought in foreign lands had now come into the soldiers own homes, right into their own relationships and friendships. The war the men had fought in the battle fields was now being fought in their homes and their loved ones had become the enemy.
-
All men were expected to treat all women with the same devotion and respect they had been trained in in their family homes prior to the second world war. Men were supposed to continue to nurture and protect their weaker women. Men were expected to be the stronger members of a community and women were meant to play roles subservient and passive towards all men in all areas of their lives regardless if in their jobs, at home or at school. The subservient and passive women were then expected to keep children away from men. Children during those times were the lowest of the low, the most subservient and the most passive members of all families.
-
After the second world war all levels of relationships and friendships were put under massive strain throughout the entire western world. The roles traditionally controlled by one gender group over another had slowly been forced to transform into what we see today. What started out as a trickle at the end of the 1800s is now a tsunami pushing away all old models, all out dated external systems and demanding each and every individual transform their own relational inner selves.
-
The battle fields had now gone internal.
-
The Baby Boomers had no idea what was being played out when they hit their adolescents and to a certain degree still do not understand what happened or why, 60 years later.
-
The scientific communities have been so busy watching the adult symptoms of the long shadows cast from their own adolescent stage they have generally missed that evolution occurs in the child stage of human development and gets consolidated in the adolescent stage. It is in the child stage that causes are set into motion and during adolescence, if those traumas are not shaken off beforehand, they get handed on to the individual and they believe the traumas define them.
-
After tracking my own grandmother’s family over those extraordinary and exponential changing years I found the majority of them could not form stable and strong family units. Traditionally large families, at those times of 8 to 13 children were common but after the second world war many of those families split apart and it is very common to find very little contact between the adult siblings later on in their lives. Everything connected to the family unit right through to world cultures were changed forever. There was no going back.
-
Relationships and friendships have been forced through immense transformation changes especially over the past 60 years. From the middle to the late 1800’s through to the first decades of the 21st century every fiber in the fabric of human relationships and friendships have been pulled and stretched to forms their participants still do not understand or recognise.
-
In today’s societies the adolescent stage is still happening within every individual with newer levels of development being forged though largely misunderstood and feared by the majority of adults.
-
The child brain works from a simple black and white level and is completely focused on “YOU”. It is “YOU” who holds the power over them, blaming everyone and everything for what they feel. The adolescent brain slowly awakens into consciousness around 11-12 and continues to around 15-16 years of age. During those few years of the adolescent cycle the young person slowly awakens and starts to see the hypocrisies and injustices abounding within the adult world.
-
With only a well-developed child brain of black and white thinking the adolescent, if left to their own devices over those precious few years, believes they either join in and take full advantage of the hypocrisies and injustices OR turn their back and reject what they see laid out in front of them.
It is at this point the adolescent consolidates all their childhood experiences and learning's and makes choices that then go onto cast very long shadows into the rest of their youth and adult lives.
-
It is during these very short years, from 11 to 16 years of age the adolescent has to experience the “I” stage and turn away from the “YOU” stage. Only after these few years of getting the “I” stage under their wings can they enter the next stage of youth where they start to develop the “WE” stage. What we see around us at present is the symptoms of individuals who attempt to hang onto immature stages and take them into stages which require new ways of being, new visions and new understandings. During the Baby Boomer stage individuals who attempted to prevent growth and not allow themselves to surrender to and move through the “I” stage and attempted to hold onto their child stage of “YOU” experienced symptoms of co-dependency and abundant forms of addictions.
-
This transforming “WE” stage the entire human race is now being forced to surrender to presently is witnessing the symptoms of those not wanting to relinquish the immature “I” stage instead of embracing the new maturing “WE” stage. Those symptoms include exploding proportions of individuals affected by higher grades of narcissism, psychopaths, gluttony, ravenous lust, exponential addictions and materialism plus the complete objectification and commodification of every living creature and environment left on the planet at present.
-
The life cycle of each human being is echoed throughout the entire human race development cycle. The human race through the Baby Boomer generation has experienced its adolescent stage and all generations to come over the following decades will be entering into an epoch change of directions and forced to focus in ways not seen or even imagined in past generations; the youth stage is gently being rolled out with each and every new baby now being born.
-
The Baby Boomer generation if looked at from this vantage point may simply be seen as the most self-indulged, privileged, entitled, selfish group of human beings ever to walk upon this earth. But if you fly up and take an eagles view and place this stage into the human cycle history you would see it is only a short stage humanity has had to endure, a stage that had to be traversed just as every individual has had to over the past 100 or so years to arrive at the next portal, the next juncture, the next stage in the maturing of the entire human race.
-
We need to take a fresh new look at the adolescents around us and the next group of children that reach this stage and guide them with a greater vision, a new mindset reflecting incredible opportunities awaiting them than simply handing them a sex and drug education package and leaving them to their own devises as the entire Baby Boomer generation found themselves.