Stage One: Early Adolescence (ages 9 – 13) and the Separation from Childhood. A common cause for boredom at this age is from the young person detaching from childhood, letting go and giving up many ...

From what I’ve observed, procrastination – putting off tasks until later that one doesn’t want to do now – is well practiced in adolescence, but the objectives often seem to shift from stage to stage ...

Psychologist, prolific parenting author (Boomerang Kids) and Psychology Today blogger Pickhardt focuses on helping parents understand the adolescent years, “the age of argument.” Pickhardt identifies ...

Maybe it’s the long, sleepless nights or the never-ending temper tantrums, but many new parents believe the most demanding days of parenting are in their child’s early years. It can be a long ...

Understanding how sexuality affects the lives of adolescents requires understanding what the term “adolescence” means. Adolescence occurs between the onset of puberty and adulthood — all stages of ...

A team from the UCO analyzes the impact that one's first romantic relationships have on the acquisition of skills enabling them to develop healthy sentimental bonds Adolescence is a stage of great ...

The most influential people in an adolescent’s life are, you guessed it, other adolescents. For many adolescents, the pandemic significantly disrupted an essential stage in their development — ...