People themselves do not notice how quickly they grow up. Growing up is often a change in understanding of the world and life over time. Over time, a person gets older and gains new experience. In this case, not so much the issue of physiology, which changes from year to year, is touched upon, but the way of thinking of a person, his views and principles. That is why many do not understand what the specifics of a person's growing up are and how it happens. It turns out that it will not be possible to get an answer to the presented question, since each person is individual in his own way, and therefore, growing up also occurs individually.
The concept of growing up and the main stages
Growing up is a long period of a person's life, in which it is customary to distinguish the following stages:
- early adulthood stage (20-40 years old);
- middle adulthood (40-60 years old);
- late adulthood (60 years and older).
The presented stages differ in their features and characteristics. However, a person is an individual person, so applyage restrictions proves to be quite difficult. After all, his subjective idea of his age and himself as a whole significantly affects the manner of behavior and the process of development. As a result, in relation to adults, the concept of “age hours” is used, and the problem of growing up every day becomes more relevant and requires increased attention.
The concept of "age hours" and three independent ages
Age clock is a kind of graph that shows the internal state of an individual and allows you to determine how much a person is ahead of the main and important events in his life or behind them: studying at school, university, marriage, having children and achieving a certain status in society. Along with the concept of “age hours”, three concepts of age began to be distinguished:
- biological age shows how a person corresponds to a certain moment of life;
- social age determines the degree to which a person conforms to the norms of a particular culture, which are considered in the context of biological age;
- psychological age shows how much the level of a person's intelligence corresponds to the conditions of society, motor skills, attitudes, feelings.
Regardless of these concepts, there are several stages of growing up of a person that also require special attention.
Childhood - from birth to 11 years old
Childhood is the brightest period of a person's life. After all, he has to go through the greatest path in his individual development.from an incapable creature to a childlike personality adapted to the outside world.
As a rule, the child's psyche during the first 10 years of life goes through a path that is incomparable with each of the subsequent age periods. Such passage of the life distance is primarily due to the orthogenetic features of age. Thus, we can say that childhood is oriented by natural prerequisites to the intensification of development. Regardless of this, self-development does not determine this movement, and natural prerequisites only advance the child in childhood from one life stage to another.
It is important to note that the child's body develops rapidly during this age period. He also has his own "I", his own concepts and understanding of certain things. During childhood, the child develops psychologically, begins to communicate, feel, realize his uniqueness and show his abilities in important life situations.
Adolescence - 11 to 16 years old
Adolescence involves the growing up of a child and is a life stage for self-identification of a person, that is, his self-determination. Constantly being in a social environment, the child is separated from parental values and seeks to try on others. Often parents try to take possession of the psychological territory of their child, which causes disagreements and conflicts that turn into a struggle for freedom.
Growing up is an important process,which entails the transition from a child's understanding of the world around us to an adult worldview. Children throughout their adolescence begin to reflect on their future life and professional activities. Parents in this case gradually release their children into the adult world, thereby freeing their psychological territory. However, dependence remains not only on parents in the material aspect, but also on the model of behavior and family values.
Youth - 16 to 19 years old
Youth is a life stage, which, with the uncertainty of the boundaries of the psychological territory of the personality of an already adult child, develops into a struggle with parents. And despite the financial support of the parents, they will not be able to change anything. It is at this stage that almost all of the responsibility for their actions and making important decisions is transferred to children along with freedom. Often, parents try to keep their children near them and take on some of the responsibilities, which subsequently leads to serious problems.
Youth - 19 to 35
Youth is rightfully considered an important period in life, when a partnership is established in relations between children and adults, as well as the interaction of psychological territories. Both parents and children are always ready to support and help each other, without interfering with the implementation of the needs of each.
As a rule, the area of interaction is preserved, and rules are established that are beneficial to both one and the other. However, it should be noted that at this stage, the development of a girl is markedly different from that of a boy.
Maturity - 35+
Mature age is devoid of the specifics inherent in other life periods. Most of the time people spend at work. Despite this, economic considerations dominate - work also allows you to organize time and is a sphere of communication where a sense of necessity and self-respect is maintained. Thus, it is pleasant to combine working time with the possibility of free choice and independent decision-making.
As a rule, upon reaching the age of 30, people strive to find themselves in life: they make long-term plans and begin to achieve them. After some time, some try to free themselves from the power of other people and assert independence. After 40 years, men often begin to reflect on what they have managed to achieve in life, and, evaluating the results, draw appropriate conclusions. After 45 years, a midlife crisis sets in, which most individuals manage to cope with.
In closing
Growing up is a wonderful period in a person's life, which happens individually for everyone. After all, only in the process of growing up does the formation of personality occur. It is this bright life stage that helps to become more restrained and tolerant towards people. There is no longer rebelliousness, the person becomes calm and more personable, which is actually not bad.
The process of growing up allows you to gain experience, which gradually helps to fulfillconceived plans. However, every effort should be made to preserve the childhood dream, which makes a person an individual personality. Do not be afraid to live, grow up, because this is a new life stage that everyone has to go through.
