Young-adult fiction

Most teenagers these days think that caring for their mental health is overrated and not worth their time; but why do you think they are having an overwhelming and stressful time. . .maybe mental self care isn’t as overrated as they thought. During middle school, you really want to care for your mental health, but it is also really important at every stage of life. It is important for teens to care for their mental health by spending less time on social media, thinking positively, and avoiding…

Romance, getting a driver’s licenses and a car, trying to fit in, fighting peer pressure, and making it through high school, are big milestones a teenager has to surpass, to make it to adulthood. At a point of time, we were all teenagers once, and may have made some stupid decisions, some even considered to be criminal, out of the sight of an adequate adult’s supervision. If you were lucky, you got away with it, and probably to this day, laugh like a hyena when you talk about it. Well, not…

form of a letter to his son, the message he is trying to communicate is for an African-American, you must be aware of how easily someone else can take your body. In the text he describes his childhood in West Baltimore, through his young adult hood, and into his current adult life using the element of memory to mesh the story into a flowing saga of his life.…

when young people are reaching the traditional ‘adult’ milestones (Drewery & Claiborne 2014), yet this does not mean that adolescence is lasting longer. Human services generally refer to the ages of 18-25 as ‘youth’, while theorists generally describe people aged in their 20’s as ‘young adults’ (Drewery et al 2014). Arnett (2004) refers to this period as ‘emerging adulthood’: this stage holds increasing independence and as such is not an extension of adolescence, though is not quite ‘young…

difficulties. These changes can cause stress leading to negative mental health and wellbeing (2014). Adolescence is a critical time of development in cognitive, physical, psychological, and social development that impacts relationships with peers and adults causing confusion and stress due to the multitude of life decisions that await them. Stressors may include learning difficulties and challenging relationships with teachers at school and conflicts with parents, peers, or siblings…

statistics show that the stress level for the majority of Americans is decreasing, luckily. But the data further shows that this problem needs to addressed. 42% of adult stress level has increased, 36% of adults stress has stayed the same, (Jayson 2). Keep in mind that statistics say that teens are more stressed during the school year than adults in the past month. These people could possibly be coping with stress in an incorrect/ unhealthy manner which causes these people to be so…

are parents, adolescents start to believe finishing their education becomes impossible. Without their education, they will financially struggle with their future child desires and needs. Romantic teenage relationships cause negativity towards young couples’ life mentally and physically. Relationships between teens should be well thought and sure that the person is the right one to invest time into. If not, I believe teens should wait to get into…

It is not uncommon to see a pediatrician or a child phycologist to deal with stress. For many teens, they may feel uncomfortable talking with an adult about the problems that they are facing, when in fact, pediatricians are committed to obtaining the most favorable physical, mental, and social health for people of all ages. They are trained specifically to analyze the problem and develop the best…

In order to live a healthy life, it is imperative that you understand the stages of life. There are twelve life stages that range from birth to adulthood to death. Understanding the stages of life allows to meet the correct health requirements for that life stage. For example, if someone is in the infant stage it is not recommended that you give them foods that are difficult to digest. Living a healthy life consists of understanding your body, which allows you to determine your diet, physical…

Trends, ideas, and perspectives come and go, but timeless themes are evident throughout time, forever youthful, yet old at the same time. Timeless themes are eternally relevant concepts in classic and contemporary literature that can be connected by everyone, regardless of their age, their lifestyle, or their time period. The theme on the importance of others occurs repeatedly over time in thousands of different kinds of literature. Especially now with the our world brimming with superficial…