Raising your pre- teens was never supposed to be this scary. In today’s world,
your thirteen year old is constantly bombarded with issues like the confusion that comes
with their changing bodies, their irrational mood swings, lust for privacy, and their
struggle to obtain and prove their independence. There is that struggle to balance that part
of themselves that wants to remain a child with the peer pressure that makes an
adolescent engage in risky behaviors, like the sex, drugs, violence, and alcohol perils that
they are exposed to. The parents, (whether married or divorced, another key factor in
an adolescent's growth,) are the single most influential people in that individual's life.
Let's face it, no child came with an instruction book. These adolescent years are filled
with much joy and triumphs, but just as much pain and tears.
The term adolescence itself, or rather, its meaning, is difficult to define.
At what point exactly......
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