Re: Emotional Development -- Adolescent Psychology Applied to Education

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Subject: Re: Emotional Development

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Tammy D. Ali-Carr

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Date Posted: 21:11:41 02/24/08 Sun
In reply to: Melodie Miller 's message, "Emotional Development" on 16:43:42 02/24/08 Sun

As my two older boys went through their emotional development I thought for sure they were crazy and needed professional help. The school counselor helped me to see that they were learning about their emotions and how to best deal with them and maintain status in the eyes of their peers. My middle son one day told me he was having his PMS and since they all had to deal with mine I should be able to understand theirs. I think parents have just as hard a time allowing children to pass into adulthood and adolescence takes just as much of a toll on them as it does the child.
I really liked my children when they were young and I could pick out their clothes and telling them what to do really meant something. As they started going threw adolescence and becoming their own person it forced me to see them in a different way and I can now say that sometimes I really didn't like them at all. Being a single mom spankings didn't really have an impact so when discipline was required I had to come up with things that would really hit home. For example, they wanted to have braids. I prefered the clean cut look so we made a deal. As long as their grades stayed up they could keep their hair. In the event they brought home bad grades they would have to get a hair cut. It worked wonderfully, report card day was always a day for celebration. At the end of one school year I came home from work and my son had a nice haircut, then he showed me his report card, he had a D. The next day at school the kids teased him and the teachers made comments (I was a big hit...HAHAHA) but we didn't have to worry about grades falling again.
I think the school counselors have a very difficult job. It is hard enough working with the adoloscent and their emotions. Now I am noticing there are many parents who just came out of the adolescence stage themselves and have teenage children and a grandchild on the way. (Mom is 25 years olds with a 13 year old pregnant daughter)

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Emotional Development	Timothy R. Pruitt, Jr.	21:47:13 02/24/08 Sun

Re: Emotional Development	Timothy R. Pruitt, Jr	21:49:16 02/24/08 Sun