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2.1- Typical maturer
Entering maturity period-this is the time I hit puberty. The period came within the typical period prescribed in the text. Sexual maturation also occurred over this period. -
1.1 Entering Adolescence
This was the period when I noticed commencement of bodily changes which I believe was the onset of the stage. -
2.2- Niche-picking
This is the time something frustrating and strange happened when I got to learn about personality stability. It changed my healthy but so did my environment. -
3.2- Abstraction
Today I feel like "oh man, I understand what puberty means. Early adolescence can be a challenging time for children and parents were unprepared. I was scared how my body changed and worried that it may be dangerous" -
3.3- Social Comparison
when I got scared I didn't want to talk with my parents and decided to talk with my friends-few of them explained to me. I believe that parents-families should learn so they can influence the growth and development of their children. -
7.1- Transition to High School
When entering the high school I thought I would be the top dog, but all did not go well. One of the most difficult things was developing relationships with other students such as procedural changes and social changes that were in the places everything seemed so unrealistic at the end. it helps the transition was the training which was had to undergo to catch up with life at the high school level. -
1.2 Emerging Adulthood
This was the time when I moved to adulthood - I developed abstract thinking. At this point, i started reasoning more before acting, rather than following what my peers did. -
4.1- Gender-typed behavior
I used to do stupid things with my boys-behaved in an assertive, forceful way. -
4.2- Non-gender typed behavior
Girls may behave in a softer, pleasant and soft spoken manner. Young adolescent boys and girls incorporate sexuality into their gender attitudes and behaviors. -
6.1- parent adolescent conflict part 1
One of the major cognition changes that occurs at the adolescent stage is that the adolescents begin to perceive themselves as equals to the adults and thus they can make decisions as adults do. Due to this perception, some adolescents, especially males become defiant to their parents and other adults. This leads to conflicts. -
6.1- parent adolescent conflict part 2
In my case, I almost got in a conflict with my parents during this stage. My parents were strict on the kind of friends I should spend time with, but I was of the view that I was grown up enough to independently choose friends by myself. -
7.3- Intrinsic Motivation
After joining high school, I realized that I had to do one thing that makes my education worth.With this, the issue of self-determination become clear at the end. One can argue it is the intrinsic motivation. It was coming from the need to make things right.I had to make the right choice at the end, and with this, a cognitive engagement was required.To achieve the fate then self-responsibility was one of the key things I had to realize its importance.Self-determination and committing was vital. -
6.2- ego support
Companionship- Friendship was for spending time together and sharing in similar activities. -
6.3- intimacy
Physical Support- the friendship was to genuinely care about each other. we physically tried to support each other when going through hard or challenging times. -
7.2- Transition to College.
In many cases, the transition from high school to the college level can be said to be the moment of exploration. It is the time that no rules are applicable at any cost. No bells are there to wake an individual which means that it time to taste the freedom and free what it means to be at the university. The only problem that would come in the process is when the money reduced, and the reality of life started showing it gruesome figures on the face. -
8.1- rite of passage
It was the time I had to face it and I was passing one of the important rituals in my life.It was important to understand that it was an event which represented coming of age from childhood to adulthood.As our tradition when one is circumcised then he gets new responsibilities.It was one of the moments which I can forget in my life as I come to understood that I was no longer a boy and I would consider myself a man at the end.