Do not attempt to adjust your set, a voice warns, your television is controlled by forces beyond your ability to counter or understand. You and your child are now going to be controlled by forces beyond your imagining. Change is a constant for young adolescents.
Children differ from their previous and future selves.
They are often overwhelmed intellectually, physically, socially, and emotionally by developmental changes. Suddenly, everything goes out of focus. Many formerly good-natured children become irritable. Cooperation can turn to power plays and struggles over simple tasks. In other words, they suddenly think differently, look differently, act differently, and, well, cry a lot.