TEENAGERS-PARENTS CONFLICT
“Everyone can see, there’s a change in me. They all say I’m not the same. Kid I used to be.” (Nikka Costa-first love) The lyrics show the teen girl feels that she was changes and everyone can see it. The changes happen after she pass her childhood. It is adolescence. The Latin root of adolescence is esso which means “becoming”. The term of “adolescence” describe the period which young people are neither children nor adults. Psychology seems this period as the period of storm and stresses, when the conflict begin to rise. Since the conflict between teenagers-parents happens because of biological, cognitive, social, and emotional changes, several actions such as communication, opportunities to teenagers, and discipline should be taken. Adolescence begins with a period of physical development marked by a biological changes that leads to puberty, the maturation of the primary sex organs. For boys and girls, the time of this process are vary among individuals of both sexes.