ED PSYCH 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Parenting Styles, Personal Taste, Life Matters
18 Feb 2017
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The generation gap: fact and fiction: teenagers and parents usually have surprisingly similar beliefs, gap between generations when it comes to personal taste. Adolescents are more influenced by peers than parents. Adolescents rarely rebel for sake of rebelling. Adolescents make distinction between rules that parents have right to make and rules they think are out of bounds. A time of reorganization and change: family relationships change. The adolescent"s parents at midlife: parents are usually in early 40s as child enters adolescence, midlife meets adolescence. Na ve optimism of adolescence may clash with hardened pragmatism of middle age: the mental health of parents. Adjusting to adolescence may take more of a toll on parents than. Transformations in family relations: changes in the balance of power. Early adolescents may try to play forceful role in family. Middle adolescents are treated more like adults. Young adolescents may be sensitive to emotional signals given off by others: the role of puberty.
