What parents need to know about guiding kids through puberty
CNN
This long journey of adolescence becomes more manageable for all parties when we see it as slow and unique to each person. This helps parents and caregivers know when to worry and when to relax, when to explain and when to stay quiet, and when to hold tight and when to let go. Here's a rough timeline.
It can flip quickly through our brains, a series of events -- part humiliating, part liberating -- accounting for one of our greatest stages of metamorphosis. Perhaps it's the trauma that has compressed the experience. Or maybe it is that, once the final product -- our adult selves -- is realized, it is hard to trace it back to the starting point.More Related News