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The home is an important aspect of adolescent psychology: home environment and family have a substantial impact on the developing minds of teenagers, and these developments may reach a climax during adolescence. For example, abusive parents may lead a child to "poke fun" at other classmates when he/she is seven years old or so, but during adolescence, it may become progressively worse, for example, the child may now be using drugs or becoming intolerably violent among other classmates. If the concepts and theory behind right or wrong were not established early on in a child's life, the lack of this knowledge may impair a teenager's ability to make beneficial decisions as well as allowing his/her impulses to control his/her decisions.
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Understanding
1. Why do we have difficulties to live with parents when becoming teenagers? 2. Why can’t people leave home and look after themselves at puberty? 3. What’s Marjorie’s parents’ attitude towards her entertainment? How can you judge from the key words in paragraph 9 - 12? 4. Why do you think the ironic thing happen as mentioned in the last paragraph? 5. Were you a rebellious teenager? Did you give your parents a hard time? 6. What did you most want to get from your parents or teachers when you were a teenager? Why? 7. Do you think it was necessary for Marjorie’s parents to be so angry when their daughter came home a little late? Explain.
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Adapt: 1. to make or become suitable for new needs, different conditions, etc. e.g. He adapted an old car engine to fit his boat. e.g. It took him a while to adapt himself to his new surroundings. 2. to change your behaviour in order to deal more successfully with a new situation e.g. We have had to adapt quickly to the new system sb. be adapted to sth. = sb. adapt to sth. = sb. adapt oneself to sth. 3.to change a book or play so that it can be made into a play, film/movie, television program, etc. e.g. Three of her novels have been adapted for television.
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Because the adolescents are experiencing various strong cognitive and physical changes, for the first time in their lives they may start to view their friends, their peer group, as more important and influential than their parents/guardians. Because of peer pressure, they may sometimes indulge in activities not deemed socially acceptable, although this may be more of a social phenomenon than a psychological one. This overlap is addressed within the study of psychosociology.
Marjorie’s parents has tight rein on her which doesn’t seem to bring about good results.
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Language Explanation
Para.2 “All human beings must grow up, but we don’t all do it in the same way.” Do it: grow up We don’t all do it in the same way: we grow up in different ways. Primitive: (guess the meaning from “hunt or fish…” )
Unit 2 Growing-Up Pains
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Pre-reading
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Interpretation of cussions Adolescent psychology and adolescents in different cultures
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Adolescents have also been an important factor in many movements for positive social change around the world. The popular history of adolescents participating in these movements may perhaps start with Joan of Arc, and extend to present times with popular youth activism, student activism, and other efforts to make the youth voice heard.
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In the past (and still in some cultures) there were ceremonies that celebrated adulthood, typically occurring during adolescence. Seijin shiki (literally "adult ceremony") is a Japanese example of this. Upanayanam is a coming of age ceremony for males in the Hindu world. In Judaism, 12-year-old girls and 13-year-old boys become Bat or Bar Mitzvah, respectively, and often have a celebration to mark this coming of age.
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Among some denominations of Christianity, the rite or sacrament of Confirmation is received by adolescents and may be considered the time at which adolescents become members of the church in their own right (there is also a Confirmation ceremony in some Reform Jewish temples, although the bar or bat mitzvah ceremony appears to have precedence). In United States, girls will often have a "sweet sixteen" party to celebrate turning the aforementioned age, a tradition similar to the quinceañera in Latin culture. In modern western society, events such as getting your first driver's license, high school and later on college graduation and first career related job are thought of as being more significant markers in transition to adulthood.