Quotes About Adolescence

Teenagers are basically toddlers with hormones—old enough to want to do stuff without having any of the common sense.

She is probably slightly too old to pout, but they've been going out a short enough time for it still to be cute.

He's a singular person, Will. From the time he hit adolescence, I always had to fight the feeling that in his eyes I had somehow done something wrong. I've never been quite sure what it was.

I was good at keeping secrets from my parents (it's one of the things we learn while growing up, after all)—but coping with the anxiety by myself was something else entirely.

Teenagers are basically toddlers with hormones—

Yelling at her wasn't going to solve anything—Dad's yelling at me never ever solved a problem. We drove in silence for four or five miles. "Who gave you the cigarettes?

A lot of people move around in life chronically ashamed of how they look, or how they feel, or what they said, or what they did. It's like a permanent adolescent concern. Adolescence is when you're permanently concerned about what other people think of you.

in 1762, Rousseau argued that puberty had such fundamental emotional and mental effects that it represented "a second birth.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

Once a child enters adolescence, it may become increasingly difficult to raise these issues. Because adolescence is a time of rebellion—of self-definition, of distinguishing oneself from parents and peers—there may be less communication than ever. It is also a time of great emotional and physical change—and therefore a time of intense confusion within. If the adolescent child's self-image gets lost in the shuffle, there may be years of hell to pay.

Mischel discovers that the number of seconds you waited to ring the bell in 1970 predicts not only what your parents say about you as a teenager but also the likelihood that you were admitted to a top university. Children who were able to overcome stimulus control and delay gratification for a few extra minutes in 1970 were better able to resist temptation as teenagers, to focus on their studies, and to control themselves when things didn't go the way they wanted.27

She had never married or had kids, but she did have nephews. She'd bought them tons of gifts over the years, before they hit adolescence and morphed into—her sister's words—" uber-assholes.

I'm not entirely sure who you are. I mean, you're not really a kid anymore and you're not an adult. ... So, you're going through all these changes, and I don't know who you'll be at the end of it.

Alexis was at that age, seventeen, when mothers come into view as tyrants or imbeciles or both.

The little office, scarcely large enough to contain Dr. Irene's desk at one end and the couch at the other, held a world of memories for Lily. Here, fifty minutes at a time, two or three times a week, she'd spilled out her hopes and fears, her childhood nightmares and adolescent insecurities – in a sense, she'd grown up in this room.

He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).

In high school, if you can find a girl who will kiss you and maybe let you touch her breasts and a guy who likes the same movies as you, your world is pretty much complete.

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

Basta parlarci dieci minuti, con certi diciassettenni - con i ragazzi intendo, perché con le ragazze è un'altra storia, più complicata - e salta fuori subito che sono dei maledetti insicuri.

adolescente, que aún no está acostumbrado a renunciar —no sabe decir no—, quiere abarcar demasiadas cosas y se dispersa, y la dispersión es la mejor manera de no avanzar, por pérdida de energías.

La voluntad es la capacidad para hacer algo valioso y que cuesta sin tener un resultado inmediato. Es la capacidad para aplazar la recompensa haciendo lo que se debe. Educar la voluntad es aprender a renunciar a las satisfacciones inmediatas y a valorar y sopesar las cosas antes de actuar. Se trata de un largo proceso que empieza en la infancia y que tiene unos resultados concretos en la adolescencia. Ni

Qué fácil es torcer la trayectoria de un adolescente, inmersos como estamos en una sociedad muy permisiva y relativista! Por