Transition To Childhood Research

When should someone be considered a responsible adult? In many cases this is a hard question to answer. Most people believe that the ages between 18 and 21 is when a person should be considered a responsible adult. The laws and society are sending mix messages to teens and adults around the world. In the article “What Is The Age Of Responsibility?” say that the world expects the youth to grow up fast put restrictions on them. The world need to make up their minds on when someone is considered a responsible adult.

This semester I began my minor Pediatric Clinical research. One of the guest lecturers who came in was Dr. Edward Clark, Chair of Department of Pediatrics and Medical Director at Primary Children’s Hospital. I learned an incredible amount from his lecture on the importance and complexities of caring for patients. Dr. Clark shared a French proverb that resonated with me: "guérir quelquefois, soulager souvent, consoler toujours" or in English, to "cure occasionally, relieve often, console always". Most importantly, helping as a nurse is putting others before yourself. These are four principles that I believe are crucial to helping as a nurse.

Childhood studies is a subject area surrounding the study of children’s lives through many different concepts or ideas with many different features. It is related to many different fields such as law, history, sociology, health, anthropology and much more as Martin Woodhead (Open University) said “It uses multiple methods rather than just singular methods” and is “inter-disciplinary” Childhood studies expresses and tries to understand the many different parts of a child’s life and the different issues surrounding childhood, therefore it has many different features.

It starts during childhood. To the child's ear, bedtimes and limits on videogames seem monotonous and dragged on. Differently, boundaries for obscene material are all too normal for children, which protects their exclusive innocence. However, what makes the absolute transition to adulthood? Is it turning eighteen and celebrating by taking the car out, or is it something drastically different and perhaps earlier?

Most of the time, becoming an adult is planned. There are religious ceremonies, the gaining of a driver’s license, and other forms of new responsibility to signify the coming of age. Sometimes though maturity comes at you like a freight train. It comes at you in the blink of an eye and there is no stopping it once it hits you. You are forced to grow up and take on new responsibilities that you thought you wouldn’t have to take on until many years later. It's up to you though to decide what to do from there. You can either try and run away from the problems you have come to face or you can take the train head on and conquer what has been presented to you. I decided to face the train.

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.” -C.S. Lewis. We all have had experiences that bring about growth and maturity; the clear line that separates us from childhood to adulthood. The shift from childhood to adulthood happened for me when I started having my own opinions and my own outlook on life. You can always be traced back into your life, in the events that shaped your perspective of the world.

What helped me see that have transitioned into an adult was during induction on November of this year for Alpha Phi Nu chapter of Phi Theta Kappa. It was a very formal event where all the new members are called my name and they sign their name into a special book for induction. I was upstage as not just a member but as a VP of Scholarships for my chapters speaking to the new members. Sitting in the front of the stage nervous but excited to give this small speech of thanks to a choir that sang for us and saying congratulations to the new members. Being given such a huge responsibility, that I would have most likely not have done when I was younger was such a huge step for me. I was always told that sometimes adults would have to do things they

In modern society one of the most important aspects of one’s life is crossing the threshold into adulthood. So at what age, or perhaps at what stage of life, is adulthood granted? Depending on the culture it could be decided by marriage, age, military service, or even religion.

Kids to adults, when? The question of maturity is as vexed as the answer. Brain maturity plays a part as different areas of the brain mature at various points. Society provides another answer as responsibility is presented at unique times as well.

There is a time where everyone has to stop being a kid and grow up to become an adult. It is different for all depending on many things; such as culture, how you were raised, the environment you lived around, and when you want to actually grow up and become something of yourself. For Indians cultures, it might be you have to go own a journey of some sort, Africans you might have to go kill a lion, for most Americans it is going off to college. At least for me, it’s going off to college. You face many things when in college that will prepare you for the rest of your life. College is a “trial” for adulthood.

At what age do we become adults? According to the United States, and in some countries the answer to that is generally 18. That is when young people are able to accept responsibility for their actions, like driving, joining the army, college, and jobs. Also at the age of 18 you have more privileges. I believe a person becomes an adult at the age 18 because the Government counts you as one.

The word transition comes from Latin transitionem, which means "going across or over" (Dictionary.com. n.d.). Transition itself means "the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another" (Oxforddictionaries.com, n.d.). In the early childhood context, transition is widely recognized as changes between different types of activities. In the Early Years context, transition could refer to a change of environment, behaviour or even activity. Transition is often much more complicated than simply changing buildings or settings because for children, it means learning a new set of rules and behaviors, adjusting to a new peer group and getting to know new teachers (SERVE, 2005). Transition has been used to refer to differences in services among environments, agencies, or institutions (Lombardi, 1992). In a nutshell, transition are milestone events in which children will have an impact on their development throughout their lives. There will be times of exciting change and times of new, different and maybe even unfamiliar opportunities and growth for every child that goes through any form of transition. They can also be times of uncertainty where

A child becomes an adult when they reach the age of twenty-four, and they decide they are ready to handle the largest amount of responsibilities they are going to have to deal with for an extended amount of time. These responsibilities can be from buying a house and paying your mortgage monthly to something as simple as finding a steady job or finding one’s self a career. A person will show a growing amount of independence and will also seem to be more helpful and interactive. It doesn't have to rely solely on age,

1. I believe the signs of reaching adulthood is having full independence. An adult is responsible, mature, and competent. I became an adult in my second year of university, when I was 19. The past couple of years I have been living on my own and paying for school and living expenses; which is a sign of independence. I have many responsibilities, such as a job, weekly volunteering, and school work. I have also became a more family orientated person, on the weekend instead of partying with my friends, I enjoy spending time with my family.

Is there a way to pinpoint the exact moment one becomes an “adult”? Many argue that this moment is created by a series of revelations and exposure to the world of adulthood. In the case of Briony Tallis from Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement and Ralph from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies we see two children sharing comparable internal struggles associated with a loss of innocence. Due to their lack of parental support upon their loss of innocence both Briony and Ralph enter into a territory completely foreign to what they once knew. For both children we see them comparing the differences between the reactions of children and adults in serious situations, as well as sharing an occurrence of switching between the two states (children versus adult), where they find a blurred boundary between the two causing various levels of confusion. Finally although both children find themselves losing their innocence, the nature of their reactions to it are different from one another. Both novels explore in detail the difficulty in realizing that the world you have always known is not the only one.