I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.
The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
To an adolescent there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world who are probably not so sure themselves.
I had spindly little ankles and growing up in Canada I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
I am not an adolescent nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
In interviews I gave early on in my career I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job marriage and children. In some respects I was a social adolescent.
It's possible that I've matured as a writer and I hope I've matured emotionally but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.
There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness the volatility the wholesale lack of impulse control all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.
While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.
The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream to destroy the family.
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority then our strategy as advocates must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy you're in the sweet spot for trouble.