lesson for Personal Development Adulting 101: How to Deal with Adulting

2. HOW TO DEAL WITH ADULTING

3. Challenges of
Late Adolescence

4. Ways to Become a
Responsible
Adolescent Prepared
for Adult Life

6. Understanding the
Facets of
Development in
Adolescence

8. Physical Development
• Most girls have completed the physical
changes related to puberty by age 15.
• Boys are still maturing and gaining strength,
muscle mass, and height and are completing
the development of sexual traits.

9. Emotional Development
• May stress over school and test scores.
• Is self- involved (may have high expectations and low self-
concept).
• Seek privacy and time alone.
• Is concerned about physical and sexual attractiveness.
• May complain of parents preventing him/her from
doing things independently.
• Starts to want both physical and emotional intimacy in
relationships.
• Try the experience of intimate partnerships.

10. Social Development
• Shifts in relationship with parents from dependency
and subordination to one that reflects the adolescent’s
increasing maturity and responsibilities in the family
and community,
• Is more and more aware of social behaviors of friends.
• Seek friends that share the same beliefs, values and
interests.
• Friends become more important.
• Starts to have more intellectual interest.
• Explores romantic and sexual behaviors with others.
• May be influenced by peers to try risky behaviors
(alcohol, tobacco, sex).

11. Mental Development
• Becomes better able to set goals and think in terms
of the future.
• Has a better understanding of complex problems
and issues.
• Start to develop moral ideals and to select role
models.

12. Spiritual Development
• spiritual awakening happens and they become
aware of the existence of the divine
• they join clubs and campus religious ministries
where they express themselves and find meaning
for certain aspects of their adolescent life
• lively discussions and activities inspire them to
explore more about faith.
• strong parental leadership helps teens find and
keep a strong spiritual faith.

13. Encouragement 101:Timothy D. Evans
• Encouragement is the key ingredient for
improving your relationships with others.
• Encouragement is the antonym of
discouragement
• But most of us are skilled discourager

14. Discouragement in 5 ways
• We set standards that are too high for others to
meet because we are overly ambitious.
• We focus on mistakes as a way to motivate change
or improved behavior.
• We make constant comparisons (self to other,
siblings to one another).
• We automatically give a negative spin to the actions
of others.
• We dominate others by being overly helpful,
implying that they are unable to do it as well.

15. The Power of
Personal
Declarations