Age crises are psychologically difficult moments in a person’s life, personality crises associated with his age.
They talk about age crises in children (crisis of 1 year, crisis of 3 years, crisis of 7 years and crisis of adolescence, see ↑), then various researchers and popular literature note a number of crises of different years, at least a midlife crisis.
How to treat it? As to the fact that they are talking about it, which means that there is something in it and that an increasing number of people will believe in it. Age crises of children at one and three years old are quite a reality, although in good families they pass no more noticeably than a rare cold. In a family where smart and caring parents, children will not have a teenage crisis, children grow up naturally and parents only help them in this. An educated person who takes care of himself and his development will not allow himself any psychological — neither personal nor age-related crises — it is impossible for him just like getting lice. Those who are accustomed to live in joy and love, to be in love every day and work responsibly, are mentally healthy — always. See →
Adolescence crisis
At this time, the teenager wants to prove that he can do everything on his own, without parents, it is important for him that no one interferes in his life, the teenager wants independence from parental control. How to treat it? As to the fact that at this age you want it. Whether a teenage boy or girl deserves these rights is up to the parents to decide. In good families, parents work to anticipate the crisis and may simply not resolve the crisis, leaving all the requirements for decent behavior that are natural in a good family. See →
Age personality crises of adults
Gail Sheehy has suggested that identity crises visit us every seven years. In a highly simplified form: 16 years old «I’m not small!», 23 years old — «I’m a full-fledged adult», 30 years old — «Dreams of youth are untenable», 37 years old — mid-life crisis, Death loomed, and so on … See →