Girls require special parental care and guidance as they grow to recognize and accept the changes in their body.
Adolescence can be a time of confusion.
It’s not surprising given the physical and mental changes that take place during this time. After all, moving from the world of the child to the world of the adult requires great adjustment.
Here are some tips to help adolescent girls understand what they are facing. The most important thing to remember is you are not alone. Everybody undergoes adolescence. Your friends are going through it too. Your parents and grandparents went through it.
Adolescence is a time of change and development.
You will start to get a better understanding of who you are, your unique strengths and talents, and how you fit into the world around you.
Times of change bring with them new opportunities and challenges that are essential for growth but can also be confusing and stressful. Don’t worry. All of this is normal and the vast majority of adolescents (and families!) make this transition from childhood to young adulthood without any major ‘hiccups’.
There are a large range of things that happen in adolescence. It is a time of experimenting, finding out who you are, and gradually becoming increasingly independent. It is the transition between childhood and adulthood. Some of the normal experiences of adolescents are:
challenging your parents (and other adults)
taking risks (and breaking rules)
testing and demonstrating courage
experiencing success
recognising your feelings
finding your voice
developing a belief system
becoming self-sufficient
leaving school/leaving home
learning to give
recognising your mortality.
Adolescence can be divided into early, middle and late stages, with different priorities or concerns for each.
StageAgeConcernEarly10 to 13 yearsAm I normal?Middle14 to 17 yearsWho am I?Lateover 17 yearsWhere am I going?
While you become physically mature in adolescence, your brain continues to develop for some time. So adolescents have adult bodies but don't yet have adult brains. This fine tuning continues into your mid-20s. So if you feel caught between two worlds – don’t worry, that’s normal. In a sense, that’s exactly where you are.
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