The human being is born unfinished or immature to differences of other animal species. Later he is educated and adapted to the environment and culture where he has to develop. In this way you not only face amazing biological changes, but also acquire the knowledge you need to face the world successfully. This process also shapes his personality, which is the sum of the ways of acting, thinking and feeling that makes him unique and different to all other individuals. When dealing with adolescents, care must be taken with the different mood changes that are generated, they can become dangerous depending on the acuity or repetition. Without forgetting the seriousness of the consequences for both young people and their environment.
When you are the father of a child or adolescent girl, you feel in a roller coaster of emotions, ranging from joy and satisfaction for the achievements obtained and despair and sadness for the changing behavior. You live in a continuous coming and going solving conflicts that are becoming more frequent. Everything begins in small quarrels with his brothers, then goes from home to school with classmates and friends. The conflicts are evolving in severity and frequency. When they are approached on the subject they always respond with arrogance, disrespect and with certainty that they are right.
All this landscape suggests that we are facing a young man with high signs of violence. - You may have a problem of self-control or bipolarity. The difference is that the first is the inability to withstand the emotional storms to which the attacks or events that contradict their opinions are submitted, is present before any expression of emotion; while, in the second, it is a neurological disorder where the young person transits very quickly between happiness, sadness and anger with almost a minimum limit. Parents should be alert to these changes as they can endanger not only young people but everyone around them.
The fundamental symptoms are:
• Constant cholera attacks
• Emotional instability (passive-aggressive, sad-happy, depressed-anxious)
• Susceptibility to criticism
• Predisposition to aggressiveness (physical, verbal or psychological)
• Unsociability
• Inability to communicate
• Intolerant before the opinions of others
• Depression, loneliness, restlessness and anxiety
• Changes in the way people dress, comb, talk
• Perforations in the body for tendrils and Pilsen
• Tattoos on the body without the prior authorization of their elders
• Reports of fights in schools, high schools and streets.
• Deficiency or low average in grades or grades
• Unjustified school absenteeism increase
• Start in the consumption of alcohol, cigarettes, drugs
• Maintain an attitude of expectations for having secrets in certain inappropriate behaviors (sexual, drugs, lies, thefts, sales or others)
These are some of the symptoms that indicate a clear warning that adolescents require more attention from parents and / or representatives, as well as school authorities, which may even require the intervention of a professional in Psychology. . There is a high statistic about these behaviors that express a predisposition to suicide. Therefore, it is suggested:
Pay close attention to sudden changes in moods
Establish norms within the family that allow maintaining harmony and empower young people for their successful independence in the future
Maintain fluent communication
Establish family bonding habits such as: eating together at least once a day; watch a movie or a TV show at least once a week;
Incorporate adolescents into extracurricular, sports or cognitive training activities
Monitor trends (fashions) that your children intend to follow (earrings, tattoos, clothes)