Question

Your 8 year-old daughter came home singing, "Girls go to college to get more knowledge, boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider." You thought that this was pretty funny, but did not say so. From your development course, you know that this behavior occurs ____

Answer 1

The correct answer is as a tentative first step toward romantic relationships that will occur later in adolescence

The dating experience, like other teenage relationships, should be placed in a broader context.

This is because there are a series of profound changes that the adolescent begins to discover at this stage and, although all of them can be fascinating and positive, they must occur within a normal rhythm and without any aggression or violence on their global growth process, under penalty of serious and irremediable consequences.

The teenager, as obvious as it may seem, is not yet an adult. He does not have his feelings and emotions subject to a healthy and necessary control, but on the contrary, precisely because he is beginning and discovering his life path, he is more induced to fantasies and impulses that escape his reason or moderation.

And in these fantasies and impulses, without a doubt, a very strong factor is affection. Affection that all human beings miss, to a greater or lesser extent, at any stage of their lives, but that can and should be managed according to a criterion of opportunity and convenience.