Human Growth and Development / Unit 9 HGD 1240 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Idealism
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The idea
David Elkind described adolescent idealism: new analytic power makes teens critical of adult hypocrisy and the world's problems, with an urge for immediate change.
In practice
A fifteen-year-old pointing out that her parents ask her to recycle but drive everywhere.
Where people slip
The accompanying de-idealization of parents and authorities is a normal part of adolescence.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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