Remember how, as a child, you counted the birthdays till you could be considered a teenager? How you pictured your teen years as the pinnacle of youthful maturity? Nine years old … 10 … 11 … Wow! Now you’re officially a preteen!
A preteen? Nobody is a preteen anymore. Call your child a preteen, and she’ll probably give you a confused look before texting all her friends: “OMG, you’ll never guess what my mom just called me.”
With the age of faster-than-light communication and even faster social development in our youth, your kids are going from being children to teens in the blink of an eye. That in-between period is often referred to as “tweenage.”
Children are going through profound changes at this stage – both personally and socially. This is also the early threshold of adulthood – the first budding of individuality and attempts at independent development. These changes often manifest themselves in most of your child’s relationships, often resulting in a shifting family dynamic.
Kids feel a lot of pressure from peers at this stage, and emerging outside influences will keep getting stronger and affecting tweens’ moods, habits, decisions and behavior at home and in school.
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