This part of the book defined what "adolescence" actually means. This term literally means "to grow up", which works on two levels. This is accurate in a biological sense because during this time children are growing up physically. This is also true on a maturity basis, because throughout this time of adolescence kids are learning more common sense and how to be mature. Some people might beg to differ because they may say that adolescence teenagers are immature and aren't trust worthy, but this is the time where kids start to develop their morals and personality.
They also had an interesting list from googling "teens and expectations", and they came up with very few good things associated with teenagers. The first few terms that came up were, teens and drugs, alcohol, smoking, drinking, marijuana and cell phones. This backs up their statement that teens are associated with things of low expectations. I was a little insulted when I saw this list because not every teenager experiments with drugs and drinking, so I didn't like how they grouped all teenagers as bad, with low expectations.
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