This theory focused more on how the late teens builds their foundations and prepare themselves for the future. While reading this theory, it made me reminisce my younger age and how I was planning for my future. “Emerging adulthood is a time of life when many different! Directions remain possible, when little about the future has been decided for certain, when the scope of independent exploration of life 's possibilities is greater for most people than it will be at any other period of the life course.” (American Psychologist Arnett, Jeffrey. Jensen 2000 pg 469). Many of us when we reach twenties, we feel like we have the knowledge of everything, but we don’t. Instead of seeking for help, we instead make life decisions, then regret them later. Cultural also plays a huge role in teen’s life. “For most people, the late teens through the mid-twenties: are the most volitional years of life. However, cultural influences structure and sometimes limits the extent to” (American Psychologist Arnett, JJ 2000 pg 469). African truly values their cultural, growing up from an African background, we were trained to live up to our tradition and practice it throughout our teens. Our tradition did not provide much recourse as we needed at the time; therefore, many of us failed to live by the
This theory focused more on how the late teens builds their foundations and prepare themselves for the future. While reading this theory, it made me reminisce my younger age and how I was planning for my future. “Emerging adulthood is a time of life when many different! Directions remain possible, when little about the future has been decided for certain, when the scope of independent exploration of life 's possibilities is greater for most people than it will be at any other period of the life course.” (American Psychologist Arnett, Jeffrey. Jensen 2000 pg 469). Many of us when we reach twenties, we feel like we have the knowledge of everything, but we don’t. Instead of seeking for help, we instead make life decisions, then regret them later. Cultural also plays a huge role in teen’s life. “For most people, the late teens through the mid-twenties: are the most volitional years of life. However, cultural influences structure and sometimes limits the extent to” (American Psychologist Arnett, JJ 2000 pg 469). African truly values their cultural, growing up from an African background, we were trained to live up to our tradition and practice it throughout our teens. Our tradition did not provide much recourse as we needed at the time; therefore, many of us failed to live by the