Are growing very fast and unevenly, causing clumsiness. Girls mature earlier than boys.
Experience spurts of energy, followed by fatigue.
Are engrossed in the perplexities of puberty, interested in sex.
Independent behaviors: happy, easy going, loving, self-confident, sense of humor, energetic, self-assertive, co-operative.
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Are intellectually sharp, but memory work is just 'too boring'.
Jump to conclusions, are immature in judgment.
Are eager for answers to many personal problems, but often put on an indifferent front.
Very difficult age to teach. Must be a teacher they respect.
Dependent behaviors: sad, irritable, angry, unloving, withdrawn, fearful, worried, apathetic, passive, idolizing others, self-conscious, daydreaming, fantasizing, rebellious, evading work, dawdling.
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Crave emotional experiences and often over-respond from the heights to the depths.
Are painfully sensitive, brutally frank, moody, fickle, rebellious. Very "cool". Rebellion and dissipation need to be seen as sin.
Demands to make own decisions.
Needs to learn how to resolve conflicts. Needs to control anger. Needs to develop self-control.
Why do we suffer or are persecuted? Needs to understand that life may be unfair. Yet, God is faithful and just.
Vengeance belongs to God.
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Sense of humor often eases difficult situations; they love to tease, but not to be teased.
Crave new experiences, especially to become an adult and make their own decisions.
Are inclined to transfer loyalty from the home to an idolized hero. Usually seeks peer approval first. Interested in opposite sex.
Tries to act grown-up, dreads being considered a child.
Craves to be important. Want to be assimilated as one of the gang so that their awkwardness isn't so conspicuous.
Need to become leaders and examples. Need to desire to keep their way pure.
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Need Christ as the One who understands when no one else does. Looks for leadership in older young people. Questions on dating.
Can prove Christ is God, is Deity.
Can outline the plan of salvation from Genesis to Revelation.
Can understand the requirements to becoming a Christian.
Can define the church: organization, worship, history. Can give a brief history of the church from Pentecost to the present.
Learn the historical significance of such events as: the Reformation movement and the Restoration movement.
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