Young-adult fiction

Children who lack parental role models may look up to celebrities more so than children with strong parental influence. These teens will continue to be impacted by celebrities as they enter young adulthood because it was the only source of influence that they have ever received. In contrast, teens with parents that showed an active involvement on their growth and development will come to self-realization. Their maturity will help them notice…

the taking on of an adult role in society. The end of adolescence is also coming later in life. Arguably, if one is to put an age to adolescence, it begins at or about 13 and ends around the age of 18. Regardless of when adolescence starts or ends, one would have to agree that adolescence is a time of transition that is fraught with challenges and pressures for not only the teenager experiencing it, but their parents as well. It is during this transition from child to adult that one begins…

just the separation, it’s the whole crummy year, I hate that school, you can’t make any friends, the history teacher’s a scud” (Updike 740). As the reader, I can see that John is really worried about himself, and what’s going on in his own life. Most young teens are very self-centered. Updike demonstrates the feelings of the older son, Dickie, at the very end of the story. Dickie was the only child that didn’t have an outburst, cried silently in his room, and asked his father, “Why?” (Updike…

Erikson considered young adulthood to be a longer stage than the previous ones, extending from the end of adolescence to about age 35. During this period we establish our independence from parents and quasi-parental institutions, such as college, and begin to function more autonomously as mature, responsible adults. We undertake some form of productive work and establish intimate relationships close friendships and sexual unions. In Erikson’s view, intimacy was not restricted to sexual…

In this journal I will be discussing three topics. These topics include: determinants of learning, developmental stages of the learner, and gender, socioeconomic, and cultural attributes of the learner. Determinants of learning must first be decided prior to any teaching being done. The nurse needs to assess for things such as the learner’s readiness to learn, the learning needs, and how the learner learns best. Readiness to learn is deciding at the best time to teach, or the best time the…

In my paper, I am going to write about the different coping mechanisms of teens and how they grieve when coping. Teens can cope many ways and for many different reasons. None of the different reasons for a teen to start to grieve and/or cope is necessarily wrong. Also, how long you grieve and cope does not matter. When a teen is going through every day teen problems (bullying, growing up, and finding yourself) and problems that are not every day (death of a loved one, rape, and other…

years. Board games today are now reserved for the extremely young or more mature audiences. During the 1950s, rock and roll music entered the mainstream media and gradually disassembled teenage board game culture through its promotion of rebellion, commoditization of popularity, and lack of family values, which eventually severed the connection…

Berger states, “Parents can be the most important bond in a young adult’s life.” (2016) This principle is certainly true of Beth. Despite her desire to exert her independence, her family play a big role in her life and she dislikes being so far away from home. She reflected that “her parents and sister are the most…

The world is much different than it was when I was growing up as a child, teenager and young adult. Each year I notice younger and younger children with cell phones and other portable devices that can somehow connect them to the Internet and social media. It seems like in everything we do or sign up for, we need to have some type of profile. Society has made it unacceptable if we do not have a Facebook account and there is this peer pressure from friends and family if we don’t Facebook. We are…

the age of 18 - to wish to be adults who can make their own rules and decisions, and to hold the perceived unrestrained freedom adults possess. This restraint and lack of freedom felt by minors, particularly teenagers, stems from the need for children to be parented and guided - a concept children and teens do not always grasp in the time of their youth. Yet one aspect of this “teen-angst” does ring true; minors do not always have the same rights and freedoms as adults. However, according to a…