It is obvious, from what I have written, that parental authority is weakened and parental decisions are questioned during adolescence. But in spite of much publicity, adolescence is not a period of turmoil and chaos, rather it is a period of minor rebellion, bickering, and questioning.

In today’s rapidly changing society, parents have to accept that they have to learn from their children, and can hope that their children will continue to learn from them, to trust, and to love them.

It is perhaps unfortunate, too, that the child’s adjustment to adolescence may coincide with the parents’ adjustment to middle age. The youth wants to expend energy, his parents feel a need to conserve energy. The adolescent looks forward to an exciting future, the parents may be looking back to a romanticized past. The youth is enthusiastic, impulsive, and impatient, his parents have become cautious and compromising. The adolescent is uncertain about his awakening sexuality, the parents may be concerned about their (as they believe) waning sexuality. The youth is anxious that his decisions will make his parents unhappy, the parents are anxious because they know that the youth must learn to manage his own affairs, but they want to protect him from harming himself and from the unpleasant realities of life.

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