My daughter has her favorite teacher in the library. She offers the coding club, the electric club, and the craft club at the library.
While I was chatting with her today, she shared her personal information with us. She and my daughter share the birthday day just one day apart. Now we know why they like each other very much. Regardless of the huge age gap, the teacher and my daughter are good friends. They share the similar personality.
Recently my daughter turned to 10 years old. I thought she has become a teenager.
The teacher corrected me. She said here in America, a teenager is considered as a person whose age literally containing “teen”. So the age range is within thirteen to nineteen. She also said my daughter is within the age range of preteenager. It is the age range of nine to twelve.
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After I came back home, I did some more research.
According to the definition of The World Health Organization (WHO), an adolescent falls within the age range of 10 and 19. So my daughter is an adolescence. Adolescence is the transition term between child and adult.
In my adolescence days, I went through lots of challenges and changes. I needed my mom’s advice and support. I wished I could have talked with my mom. At that time, not many parents were willing to openly talk about the topic related to sex with their children. The society was like that. I could not talk with my mom openly. I sometimes felt lonely in the transition.
Now I am a parent in a different era from my parents’ era. I want to be always there for my daughter whenever she needs my advice and support.
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