Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness,… — Terri E Apter Confidence Copy Share Image
Parents are never forgiven for not giving just the right response at the appropriate moment. Or, rather, there are particular times in… — Terri E Apter Adolescence Copy Share Image
Preoccupied with her self, the adolescent sees enormous changes, whereas the parent sees the child she knew all along. For the parent,… — Terri E Apter Change Copy Share Image
Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now,… — Terri E Apter Adolescence Copy Share Image
Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards… — Terri E Apter Acknowledge Copy Share Image
Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are… — Terri E Apter Action Copy Share Image
Adolescents do get very angry with their parents, and acknowledging this anger is part of acknowledging them. If the anger is notacknowledged… — Terri E Apter Anger Copy Share Image
This is the hope of many adolescent girls--to capture a parent's heart with love for them as they are, as people. They… — Terri E Apter Being loved Copy Share Image
The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious… — Terri E Apter Adolescence Copy Share Image
It is not however, adulthood itself, but parenthood that forms the glass shroud of memory. For there is an interesting quirk in… — Terri E Apter Adolescence Copy Share Image
Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to something… — Terri E Apter Ability Copy Share Image
We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy… — Terri E Apter Age Copy Share Image
Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly. — Terri E Apter Age Copy Share Image
Sexual activity, for women, has a history of vulnerability, in a way it simply does not have for men. The mother has… — Terri E Apter Activity Copy Share Image
The family is constantly changing, as each member changes. Some changes we recognize as developments, and the pleasure they bringusually makes us… — Terri E Apter Adaptable Copy Share Image
The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother--both the mother… — Terri E Apter Abandoned Copy Share Image
Insults from an adolescent daughter are more painful, because they are seen as coming not from a child who lashes out impulsively,who… — Terri E Apter Anger Copy Share Image
