Chapter 5 and 6

• Rizal penned the poem many decades ago, believing so much in the abilities of young people to help the nation toward progress
• Expectations of adolescents


  • Fully develop their selves, acquiring full knowledge of the changes they go through as they grow (physical, psychological, emotional social); building self-esteem and confidence, and maintaining healthy relationships with their parents and peers
  • Undergo skill-building, particularly in critical and analytical thinking, firm decision-making, and leadership
  • Be fully aware of social, political, economic, and cultural issues and have the corresponding concerns
  • Be active in the community and political affairs
• Though we do not intend to bear you down with future responsibilities, let us look into your immediate challenges to help you deal with these expectations
• Centuries ago, life seemed simple. During Roman times, two thousand years ago, a teenager's typical life would have coming-of-age rituals and festivals, arranged marriages, and communal baths
• Life has become much different nowadays, with technological advances paving the way for people to have many things they can do, from mundane to complex tasks
• Just the same, young men and women, then and now, went through the motion of preparing themselves for adult roles to fulfill
• For youngsters like you, there are just so many things you would like to do. You are simply bursting with energy
• Challenges in the family:

  Quest for independence

  High expectations

  Making career choices

  Relationship issues
• Dealing with family expectations:

  Communicate opnely

  Understand your parents

  Be responsible

  School demands
• Time management tips:

  1. List down your activities
  2. Prioritize
  3. Make a plan
  4. Develop good study habits
  5. Avoid procrastination
• Peer challenges

  1. Peer pressure
  2. Peer conflict
• Throop and Castelluci (2011) ways to resolve conflict:

  1. Commit to resolving the problem
  2. Be clear with intentions and resolving conflict
  3. Stick with facts
  4. Deal with your anger and control it
• The par of the brain responsible for our instinctive, autonomic behavior and several survival functions - Hindbrain
• Regulates posture, balance, wnd muscular coodination - Cerebellum
• Bridges the mendulla and other parts of the brain, it regulates sleep, movement, and arousal- Pons
• Regulates attention, movement, sleep, waking, and reflexes - reticular activating system (ras)
• What makes verbal directions function like hearing words, recalling them, and following instructions. Mid-brain
• In charge of intellectual activity and consciousness - Forebrain
• Executive center of the brain - Cerebrum
• Responsible for remembering, learning , and taking charge of language and emotion - Cerebrum
• Relays censory information - thalamus
• Secrets hormones and controls physiological functions like temperature hunger and thirst - hypothalamus
• Connects the two hemispheres - corpus callosum
• Master gland that secretes hormones and controls the endocrine system- pituitary gland