Raising your pre- teens was never supposed to be this scary. In today’s world,

your thirteen year old is constantly bombarded with issues like the confusion that comes

with their changing bodies, their irrational mood swings, lust for privacy, and their

struggle to obtain and prove their independence. There is that struggle to balance that part

of themselves that wants to remain a child with the peer pressure that makes an

adolescent engage in risky behaviors, like the sex, drugs, violence, and alcohol perils that

they are exposed to. The parents, (whether married or divorced, another key factor in

an adolescent's growth,) are the single most influential people in that individual's life.

Let's face it, no child came with an instruction book. These adolescent years are filled

with much joy and triumphs, but just as much pain and tears.

The term adolescence itself, or rather, its meaning, is difficult to define.

At what point exactly......

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Title: Stages Of Life
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