May have to rebel, devalue parents, withdraw, etc. Immersion in peer group B. Establishment of a Personal Moral System 1. Parents and Their Adolescents A. Parents should try to understand their adolescents' views and feelings before making judgements about them and lecturing the teen about parents viewpoints. B. Allow the adolescent freedom and responsibility in slow steps. C. Adolescents have to make their own mistakes.
Parents view life from one perspective and the adolescents are viewing it from another.
D. Accent the concerns of early adolescents as genuine for their age and respect their privacy while trying to show them the wider view. The deeper values are more important. F. Adolescents need to find their own identity. Parents should not foreclose this. Most parents want their children to develop a sense of responsibility and internal controls.