The emotional pendulum that kids go through during the crazy years of adolescent hood is easily more intense then that of a middle age woman going through her menopause stage. The only real difference is that the middle age woman has years of experience and even though her body might not have ever been through this exact type of feeling, they still have the knowledge of how crazy life’s tenures can be. As for a kid they have no past experience with any of what is going to happen next in life. It is completely normal for a kid to act out on his emotions because sometimes they don’t see the effect they have on the outside world. If only there was a designed person that has been through these emotional changes to help kids out who are struggling to compensate. Oh yeah there is, but that person is usually a middle aged lady who can’t
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Some kids may never have an outside source that is able to be with them all the way through high school. A study was done asking 137 kids how important adult role models were to them. “The answers were very telling. The vast majority—79 percent—said that it is extremely important for a high school student to have that positive adult role model, and 82 percent believed they currently had one. As for what purpose that role model served, 73 percent of students said they wanted an adult role model to say encouraging words to them” (Lamb). As a kid there is no way to remember all the different fazes and personalities that one went through, but an adult that has been with them for a long time would be able to observe all of this. Now there is someone in the school system that has an understanding of what might come next out of the kid. Making it much easier to judge what the right actions must be taken when a kid does what most kids do and get veered off course by the influence of peer
Some kids may never have an outside source that is able to be with them all the way through high school. A study was done asking 137 kids how important adult role models were to them. “The answers were very telling. The vast majority—79 percent—said that it is extremely important for a high school student to have that positive adult role model, and 82 percent believed they currently had one. As for what purpose that role model served, 73 percent of students said they wanted an adult role model to say encouraging words to them” (Lamb). As a kid there is no way to remember all the different fazes and personalities that one went through, but an adult that has been with them for a long time would be able to observe all of this. Now there is someone in the school system that has an understanding of what might come next out of the kid. Making it much easier to judge what the right actions must be taken when a kid does what most kids do and get veered off course by the influence of peer