Prepare a three minutes speech on behavioural changes in adolescents
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During adolescence, you’ll notice changes in the way your child interacts with family, friends and peers. Every child’s social and emotional development is different. Your child’s development is shaped by your child’s unique combination of genes, brain development, environment, experiences with family and friends, and community and culture.
Social changes and emotional changes show that your child is forming an independent identity and learning to be an adult.
- It is an age of development both emotional and physical
- Body goes through several changes such as changes in size of certain parts of the body, pubic hair, body odor, mood swings and many more.
- Due to imbalance hormonal changes in body, it impacts moods. For example, in females the level of estrogen increases which onset the menstrual cycle. Increase in estrogen level in body effects mood and behavior.
- Similarly in males, the level of testosterone which causes aggressiveness in males.
- On the other hand, at this stage when body goes through several changes, it can onset a self of insecurity in a child which can leads to a series of disturbed and aggressive behavior such as yelling, crying, stubbornness etc.