Adolescence a period of “Storm and stress”

Personal development of a teenager is characterized by two main needs: on the one hand the need to prove oneself, the need to communicate with their peers, for leading activities in this age — intimate and personal.

These needs and form the basic features of mental development of a teenager. One of the main features of mental development can be considered a personal instability of a teenager. No wonder Stanley Hall called adolescence a period of “Storm and stress”. For in this period in the teenager’s personality co-exist directly opposite needs and features. Today, Your daughter humbly sitting with their relatives and talk about virtue. And tomorrow, depicting the face of war paint and punctures the ear a dozen earrings, go to disco, saying that “in life you have to experience everything”. And You have to wonder, does my daughter grows a hypocrite? But it’s nothing special (from the perspective of Your child) didn’t happen: she just changed her mind.