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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:10:15 -0500
Meg wrote:
"Sure, they [teens] will feel that many adults are out of touch or ineffective, but I also see that they have deep relationships with special teachers, aunts, uncles, older cousins, etc."
And this brings me to Piddy's relationship with her mother, yet another dimension of the realism I appreciated. She is, on the one hand, frustrated with her mother's choices, like the move, and tuned in to the fact that economic, and to some extent emotional, survival has worn her mother down. But I thought she was also protective of her mother, not wanting to add to her burden.. I think this is something that happens a lot with teens facing challenges, living in the larger context of families that are struggling in one way or another. They don't want to add to that burden. Too often we think about the teen years developmentally in terms of self-absorption, and yes, this is true to a certain extent, but there is also this care-taking on the part of some teens that can and does happen.
I'm wondering if you were thinking about this consciously as you wrote, Meg? Of how sometimes part of the hesitation to speak out about something awful can be more than shame, it can be the desire to protect others?
Megan
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:10:15 -0500
Meg wrote:
"Sure, they [teens] will feel that many adults are out of touch or ineffective, but I also see that they have deep relationships with special teachers, aunts, uncles, older cousins, etc."
And this brings me to Piddy's relationship with her mother, yet another dimension of the realism I appreciated. She is, on the one hand, frustrated with her mother's choices, like the move, and tuned in to the fact that economic, and to some extent emotional, survival has worn her mother down. But I thought she was also protective of her mother, not wanting to add to her burden.. I think this is something that happens a lot with teens facing challenges, living in the larger context of families that are struggling in one way or another. They don't want to add to that burden. Too often we think about the teen years developmentally in terms of self-absorption, and yes, this is true to a certain extent, but there is also this care-taking on the part of some teens that can and does happen.
I'm wondering if you were thinking about this consciously as you wrote, Meg? Of how sometimes part of the hesitation to speak out about something awful can be more than shame, it can be the desire to protect others?
Megan
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