Week 10 Post 1

I really enjoyed reading about the relationships between adolescents and adults in Chapter 16. As I read, I was able to make connections on what my relationship with my parents was like during my years as an adolescent. According to what I read in Chapter 16, conflicts between parents and their adolescents arise in early adolescence and are quite normal among all families. Conflicts between mothers and daughters are however the most common of all disputes during years of adolescence (Berger, p. 437). As I thought back to my relationship with my mother when I was an adolescent, I would have to say I felt like we did bicker a lot. Most of our arguments were about chores, homework, and the activities I was involved in. At the time, I felt like my mother was constantly nagging me which then led me to have an outburst of anger. I think the reason for my anger was that it felt like she was repeating the same things over to me and ultimately I just got annoyed with her. Now that I look back at this time, I feel kind of bad for lashing out on my mother because I feel like she was just trying to make me be the best person that I could be. Today my relationship with mother is great. The older I get the more I feel that my relationship with my mother grows. I actually think that this could be quite common for girls my age because mothers realize that we are now young adults rather than adolescents.