Comments on: has the “adolescent construct” outlived its usefullness?

By: nate

nate — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:08:20 +0000

I don’t agree with everything on your blog, marko, but this idea you can take to the bank! I think it is time to abandon the traditional notion of adolescence and go BACK to the “old” idea that teenagers are really more like adults-in-training/

By: Kristen

Kristen — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:11:47 +0000

I agree “Do Hard Things”, but we can’t neglect the reality that developmentally (emotional, psychological, whatever…) that they aren’t all the way adults, yet. So, it requires us and the other adults in their lives to continue to be hands on during this time, to mentor them thru stuff they where they just aren’t ‘there’ yet.

By: VIA

VIA — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:19:47 +0000

Check out Newt Gingrich’s video and article entitled, “Let’s End Adolescence.”
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_45/b4107085289974.htm
I’m sensing this move more and more in our social understandings. Nicholas Negroponte also has some things to say about education and how we learn that I think is also part of the puzzle: http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/nicholas_negroponte.html

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:17:29 +0000

“Do Hard Things”- Harris & Harris!! My middle school student ministry team and my adult leaders are reading it together. It is changing our ministry