What affects a child's behavior between the ages of 11 and 18?
What do children learn between the ages of eleven and eighteen that will affect their behavior? In terms of development, once children leave elementary school and they're starting into their young teenage years, and teenage years, the socialization task is to learn about the society at large. So what children learn then is that there are some rules that are so important they're actually laws. Because they're taking history classes and civics classes and such, they learn that every civilization has laws which keep the civilization together, that define the civilization, and that if you break the laws, there are serious consequences for breaking the law. That's necessary in order to have a civilization at all. So their world view gets expanded in junior high and high school, that there's a bigger world out there, and how to be socialized to fit into the society is a huge thing. So social relationships with teenagers is very, very vital because they're going to run into people that are not okay, and they're going to fall in love, and out of love, and a lot of socialization goes on in the teenage years. It's very, very vital for their ultimate success.
