The passage from teenager to adulthood is one of the most complicated
and confusing processes an adolescent can experience. It is especially confusing
since the teenager is not totally sure what it means to be an adult, and how
he/she is supposed to achieve this level of maturity. If one doesn't know what it
means to be an adult, it's much harder to attain this maturity since it is unknown
to him/her how to reach this point. However, there are many speculations and
opinions about what it means to be an adult and what one must accomplish in
order to reach this point. So how is a measly little teenager supposed to know
when adulthood is reached? There are certain things a teenager must
understand before the age of adulthood is reached. This understanding is what
brings a child into adulthood, not age or size.
Many associate adulthood and maturity with the age or even the size of a
person. This however is inaccurate. Age only matters to a point. Once the child is
out of the age of innocence, and knows the difference between right and wrong,
he/she gets a chance to be responsible, and make a decision that is either right
or wrong. I'll use fourteen-year-olds as an example. The majority of fourteen-
year-olds will not make the right decision all of the time. From this we know that if
the teenager does not make the right decision in a time that an adult would, than
this teenager is not yet mature enough to be considered an adult. But if even one
fourteen-year-old is mature enough to be an adult, that than it is evident age
does not matter. It is simply what the kid has been taught. Most fourteen-year-
olds have not been taught how to act like an adult or what to do in adult
situations, the same way that we associate maturity to be evident in larger people
because adults tend to be larger than kids. Therefor we automatically th
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