Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.
Quotes about adolescents (16 Quotes)
In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.
It's clearly giving the wrong message to adolescents. It's the responsibility of adults to model responsible behavior and set boundaries.
Does this explain the Kevin phenomenon It might be behind the social ineptitude of early adolescents, the seeming inability to understand the two expressions that have this dip most strikingly - sadness and anger.
I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents.
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.
It is my conviction, and in this I think I concur with both James and Whitehead, that we participate in this Creative Passage as bodily event at a depth and fullness not manageable at the cognitive level.... In all of life there are depths of awareness accompanying the bodily event of living and experience that yield conditions of knowing which language may not convey, or, for that matter, cannot convey. Whitehead expressed this point in those memorable words, 'Mothers can ponder many things in their hearts which their lips cannot express.' Cf. Luke 251. Meland continues this passage by speaking of ways in which men, children, and adolescents, also, ponder experiences which they cannot express verbally.
I went to Washington, not to get that job but to do that job. I wanted to do something about the problems that I saw out there that were happening in our country. I wanted to do something to make sure that all people had access to health care. I wanted to do something to reduce teenage pregnancies and begin to address the needs of our adolescents.
On average, our students score higher on national achievement tests, they are more likely to attend high quality preschool, mothers and infants are by some measures healthier than children in other parts of the country, and our adolescents are less likely to drop out of school or be without a job or schooling in their teen and young adult years.
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
It is surprising that in early adolescence there is already evidence of this change, ... The fact that that is apparent even in young adolescents is of great concern.
Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.
While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.
ADHD is associated with a significant increase of accidents and of substance abuse in adolescents when it's not treated.
The silverback is in charge. As the young males mature into blackbacks (adolescents), they begin to challenge the silverbacks. He runs them out of the troop and the blackbacks live a bachelor's life until they mature into silverbacks and establish their own groups.