Picture a mother and her six-year old son browsing in a supermarket. The son sees a toy that he likes and asks his mother to purchase it for him. The mother replies with no because the son has too many toys already. The son begs his mother for the toy and mother continues to say no. The son then begins cry loudly and complain about why he cannot have the toy. The son is an example of someone who is not mature. If the son was mature, then he would understand that he cannot have the toy because he already has many toys at home. Maturity comes in many different forms and it can be acquired through different means. There is physical maturity, emotional maturity, social maturity, and cognitive maturity (Garber “Many Kinds”). The son has not reached
…show more content…
Physical maturity has to do with changes in the body as a person ages. As a child gets older they grow taller and stronger. When puberty kicks in a child will start to become sexually mature. The male and female sex organs will begin to produce hormones and affect the children physically and emotionally (Stöppler). Emotional maturity has to do with being able to control one’s emotions. When an emotionally mature person is faced with a difficult situation, they deal with the situation in an appropriate and professional manner. An emotionally mature person tends to see a matter from many different angles (Boelen). Cognitive maturity has to do with the ability to learn complex or abstract subjects. Cognitive maturity is gained over the course of the childhood and adolescence and slowly lost with adulthood (Garber “Cognition”). Most eight-year old children would not have enough cognitive maturity to comprehend differential calculus but an eighteen-year could. Social maturity deals with the ability to interact with other people. Social maturity comes with experience. One child may have grown being taught to say “please” and “thank you” while another child may not have been exposed to that at …show more content…
Humility can either be a choice or it can come from exposure to the rest of the world. A six-year child might be very self-centered and have a very closed mindset of the world, but an 80-year old man who has served in the military and traveled the world might be more humble because of his experiences with many different types of people.
Responsibility is one of the biggest and most important parts of being mature. As an adolescent becomes an adult, they have to take on a whole new set of responsibilities. These new responsibilities create a whole new feeling for the adolescent. They will have to start making compromises such as going to bed earlier to wake up for work in the morning or eating less to save money on food.
A common misconception is that maturity only comes with age
Maturity is something that has many different aspects to it. No single person can be proficient in all the aspects of maturity but everyone has areas of greater and lesser maturity (Garber “Many Kinds”). For example, a straight A student might be able to understand complex ideas and have good amount of discipline, but he may have trouble talking to other students in a social situation. Maturity is gained from experience, from exposure, and it can be acquired
Physical maturity has to do with changes in the body as a person ages. As a child gets older they grow taller and stronger. When puberty kicks in a child will start to become sexually mature. The male and female sex organs will begin to produce hormones and affect the children physically and emotionally (Stöppler). Emotional maturity has to do with being able to control one’s emotions. When an emotionally mature person is faced with a difficult situation, they deal with the situation in an appropriate and professional manner. An emotionally mature person tends to see a matter from many different angles (Boelen). Cognitive maturity has to do with the ability to learn complex or abstract subjects. Cognitive maturity is gained over the course of the childhood and adolescence and slowly lost with adulthood (Garber “Cognition”). Most eight-year old children would not have enough cognitive maturity to comprehend differential calculus but an eighteen-year could. Social maturity deals with the ability to interact with other people. Social maturity comes with experience. One child may have grown being taught to say “please” and “thank you” while another child may not have been exposed to that at …show more content…
Humility can either be a choice or it can come from exposure to the rest of the world. A six-year child might be very self-centered and have a very closed mindset of the world, but an 80-year old man who has served in the military and traveled the world might be more humble because of his experiences with many different types of people.
Responsibility is one of the biggest and most important parts of being mature. As an adolescent becomes an adult, they have to take on a whole new set of responsibilities. These new responsibilities create a whole new feeling for the adolescent. They will have to start making compromises such as going to bed earlier to wake up for work in the morning or eating less to save money on food.
A common misconception is that maturity only comes with age
Maturity is something that has many different aspects to it. No single person can be proficient in all the aspects of maturity but everyone has areas of greater and lesser maturity (Garber “Many Kinds”). For example, a straight A student might be able to understand complex ideas and have good amount of discipline, but he may have trouble talking to other students in a social situation. Maturity is gained from experience, from exposure, and it can be acquired