Category: adolescence...

• discovering your adolescent belongings in a box in the attic
• Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. (Earl Wilson)
• From a biological perspective, adolescence should be the best time of life. Most physical and mental functions are at their peak. It is the time when foods taste best, appetite is heartiest, sleep is sweetest, and music is most seductive.
• Studies say teens fully recover from bad moods in about half the time it takes adults to do so.
• Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE) was still a teenager when he set out to conquer a large part of the known world. As an adolescent, Bill Gates was already formulating the business strategy that became Microsoft Corporation.
• Adolescents who develop a relationship with an adult role model are more successful in coping with the everyday stresses of life.
• adolescence is from Latin adolescere 'to grow up'
• For teenagers, it is important to show parents how your choices make you happy. If you make choices that reveal a deep sense of ease and happiness, then parents will see this and be more inclined to accept your choices. You will impress your parents with your maturity.
• Here are five precepts for living that will help: 1) try not to harm things needlessly, 2) try not to take what is not yours, 3) try not to engage in harmful sex, 4) try not to lie or harm through words, 5) try not to harm oneself with substances
• having a list of 100 things to do when there's nothing to do (The Book of Lists for Teens)
• things to save or put in your scrapbook

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