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<blockquote data-quote="Andy" data-source="post: 361907" data-attributes="member: 5096"><p>I have watched my sweet little Sunday School kids grow up over the years. Something happens to them at about the age 13. They leave 6th grade as a strong reminder of who they have been and enter 7th with a wild notion of who they might become. Although as individuals they are still wonderful kids, when they get together in a group, it is very chaotic. They are trying to outdo each other. Prove to the world that they are important (which they are but they don't seem to know how to receive that message). They get very annoying. I really think putting a bunch of them together in a locker room, swimming pool, lunch room, retreat, should be against the law!</p><p> </p><p>They are going through their next big change of growing up. They are realizing how they fit into the bigger picture and although some still live as they are the center of the world, they do know they are not. Misbehavior is often time just an overburdenance of annoyance and very hard to explain to a teenager why they are annoying. They do whatever they feel like doing without thinking. They laugh at each other as a way to put the other person down to make them look better without realizing how they are hurting the other person.</p><p> </p><p>Yes, terrible behaviors come out at adolescents as they start to push their boundaries to prove to themselves that they can handle a situation that their parents or other authorities are saying they are not ready for. difficult child's are often times the last to be ready for something so they act out even more. They see kids around them having responsibilities/priviledges that they don't understand why they themselves can not have. They see more of the family rules and what other parents seem to allow their kids to do and wonder why they are not allowed to. Adolescents are realizing that they are their own person with their own plans and ideas. They know that one day they will be in charge of their own destiny but for now the boundaries mom and dad have placed before them seem more like a brick wall than the windows and doors they must earn the keys to open. Many times instead of working on those keys, they believe the only answer is to tear the wall down (we feel the dynamite being used on the most terrible of days).</p><p> </p><p>I didn't do too well with Diva's adolescent years and it is also often a fight to get through difficult child's and he just started! YIKES!!! Sometimes we have to slow the time down and get through one hour at a time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy, post: 361907, member: 5096"] I have watched my sweet little Sunday School kids grow up over the years. Something happens to them at about the age 13. They leave 6th grade as a strong reminder of who they have been and enter 7th with a wild notion of who they might become. Although as individuals they are still wonderful kids, when they get together in a group, it is very chaotic. They are trying to outdo each other. Prove to the world that they are important (which they are but they don't seem to know how to receive that message). They get very annoying. I really think putting a bunch of them together in a locker room, swimming pool, lunch room, retreat, should be against the law! They are going through their next big change of growing up. They are realizing how they fit into the bigger picture and although some still live as they are the center of the world, they do know they are not. Misbehavior is often time just an overburdenance of annoyance and very hard to explain to a teenager why they are annoying. They do whatever they feel like doing without thinking. They laugh at each other as a way to put the other person down to make them look better without realizing how they are hurting the other person. Yes, terrible behaviors come out at adolescents as they start to push their boundaries to prove to themselves that they can handle a situation that their parents or other authorities are saying they are not ready for. difficult child's are often times the last to be ready for something so they act out even more. They see kids around them having responsibilities/priviledges that they don't understand why they themselves can not have. They see more of the family rules and what other parents seem to allow their kids to do and wonder why they are not allowed to. Adolescents are realizing that they are their own person with their own plans and ideas. They know that one day they will be in charge of their own destiny but for now the boundaries mom and dad have placed before them seem more like a brick wall than the windows and doors they must earn the keys to open. Many times instead of working on those keys, they believe the only answer is to tear the wall down (we feel the dynamite being used on the most terrible of days). I didn't do too well with Diva's adolescent years and it is also often a fight to get through difficult child's and he just started! YIKES!!! Sometimes we have to slow the time down and get through one hour at a time. [/QUOTE]
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