Remember how, as a child, you counted the birthdays till you could be
considered a teenager? How you pictured your teen years as the pinnacle
of youthful maturity? Nine years old … 10 … 11 … Wow! Now you’re
officially a preteen!
A preteen? Nobody is a preteen
anymore. Call your child a preteen, and she’ll probably give you a
confused look before texting all her friends: “OMG, you’ll never guess
what my mom just called me.”
With the age of
faster-than-light communication and even faster social development in
our youth, your kids are going from being children to teens in the
blink of an eye. That in-between period is often referred to as
“tweenage.”
Children are going through profound changes at
this stage – both personally and socially. This is also the early
threshold of adulthood – the first budding of individuality and
attempts at independent development. These changes often manifest
themselves in most of your child’s relationships, often resulting in a
shifting family dynamic.
Kids feel a lot of pressure from
peers at this stage, and emerging outside influences will keep getting
stronger and affecting tweens’ moods, habits, decisions and behavior at
home and in school.
GO TO PAGE:1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
|
RSS Subscribe
