adolescent ego

Assignment #8: Adolescent Egocentrism One similarity I found between the article and the information I read from the book was they both talked about how it was hard for kinds to establish their own sense or personal uniqueness. In the text, it used a great example of how parents push education so much more than working a job. They put them in school, which is a repetitive process so; it’s hard for some adolescents to find their own uniqueness. I compare this to when they were talking about personal fables in the book. I personal fable is part of the adolescent’s egocentrism that involves an adolescent’s sense of personal uniqueness and invulnerability. When parents place children in school, they expect them to develop the “norms” such as: make good grades, play sports, make friends, and many other things. But sometimes not all adolescents adapt as easy as others. When this happens, some adolescents don’t want to go to their parents because they feel like they want understand. That’s when personal fable starts to kick in. Adolescents try to make an effort to retain a sense of personal uniqueness by crafting stories about themselves filled with fantasy removing themselves far from reality. The other similarity I found was dealing with the risk-taking behavior. Both the article and the information from the text said that not giving adolescents way to take risk in a productive way can lead them to turn to drinking, drugs, not using contraceptives, and suicide. They do it for the thrill. When adolescents are sheltered their whole life, by their parents thinking they are “protecting” them, when they get the freedom to things like the ones a named earlier they go wild because they have never had that “thrill” or “feeling” before. So, sometimes sheltering your child too much can be a bad thing. My first example is going to reflect the social thinking type, imaginary audience. Lets say there is an adolescent girl fixing to start her first day of high