Young adult

“Race you!” comes a high pitched squeal of a young child heading towards their parent’s car at a shopping mall parking lot. The joys of playing a game and competing with everyone around comes naturally to children. In “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” author Jessica Statsky argues that participation in competitive team sports is damaging to a developing child. In contrast, the paper “Children’s Development Through Sports Competition: Derivate, Adjustive, Generative, and Maladaptive…

believe that being an adult is all about how well you can hide the fact that you are still a kid. To others it 's about raising a family and having bills to pay. When you ask an adult what it is like to be in their shoes, they say "Don 't rush to grow up. Enjoy being a kid because once you are no longer a child you 're going to wish you were one again." According to most adults being an adult is not at all what it seems to be. Here 's what I think. If your road to becoming an adult is good,…

Trauma and the effect it has on older adults is something I have not heard discussed until this class. Before the discussion, I had never considered the effects that trauma has on older adults. Initially, I thought that trauma would be something that the older adults experienced in the care of something and the effects it has on it. However, now it is clear that trauma, in regards to, older adults is on a broader spectrum. While it is common to learn about older adults and their traumas in…

believes that if he could catch kids before they fell into adulthood, they would be happy and innocent forever. Part of this desire to protect children comes from his guilt over not being able to protect his brother Allie. Allie died of cancer at a very young, age Even after visiting Allie’s grave, Holden worries about the rain. He says “it rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass and on his stomach.” (Salinger 155). Even though he no longer can protect Allie, Holden still feels…

40-65 years old. During this stage, adults are trying to begin their own families, establishing their own careers, and develop a sense of being apart of the bigger picture. Success in this stage leads to a feeling of having a purpose in life and feeling like they are making a difference or contribution to the world. Failure in this stage can lead to a feeling of meaningless and can make people become inactive. Many major life shifts can occur during this stage. Adults can find themselves wanting…

According to Erikson (1968), for young adults of age 18 to 40, will enter the sixth developmental stage of Intimacy vs. Isolation. At this stage, emerging adults can be observed to share about themselves more intimately with others. Emerging adults would explore on building long-lasting relationships as well as working on committing to someone other than family members. Though intimacy relationship is often romantic in nature, however, close friendships are important as well. People who are…

Preparing for Adulthood In the essay “Toys” by Ronald Barthes the author talks about how toys that are given to children will help them prepare for their future and adult life. Some of these toys will help them be good citizens and successful adults in the future. However, not only the toys are the ones that are going to help these children but the values that each parent imprints in their daily life will help them as well. What toys are actually important to give to you children? What toys will…

consequences. The ongoing policy that the United States has in effect punishes the youth who consume alcohol when they are younger than 21 years of age. Young adults are going to drink under the legal age, so why should the United States not lower the drinking age to 18? The legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 because at age 18 you are considered an adult and mature enough to make the right decisions. There are several reasons…

Developmental Stages Recognized at Jefferson Memorial Park The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the developmental stages that were observed at Jefferson Memorial Park on Friday, April 28, 2017 from 12:08 p.m. to 1:08 p.m. that an many individuals commonly experience throughout their life span. The developmental stages are categorized as infancy, preschool years, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood (Feldman, 2014). Of these particular…

have shown that it not only impacts older people, but also young children and young adults. During young children’s development to adulthood they are often at times exposed to technology such as iPad, phones and computers early in life. This constant exposure to those devices can affect their brains on a level that can rewire their thinking. That rewiring of the brain can cause their attention span and focus to be decreased. With adults as well as children, using the internet over a long period…