@Orchidaceae 6 January 2021 edited

Are Today's Junior Highers Different?

worked with junior highers for several decades now, I've often reflected on how today's early adolescents are different from the ones worked with back in the 1960s. There are differences, of course, but most of them have little to do with the developmental characteristics of junior highers that we will be discussing in the junior higher. what I have to say about junior highers hasn't changed much. We need to remember that despite how much the world has changed in recent decades, junior highers today are really not that much different from junior highers of the past. They still are young emerging adults, going through the biggest transition of their lives-from childhood into adulthood-and they are asking the same fundamental questions that you and I asked when we were their age: "Who am I? What am I going to become? Does anybody like me? Am I okay Just as early adolescents of every generation have had to come to terms with their identity, purpose, and meaning in life, so are the kids who inhabit our youth groups today. They may look different, use a different language, and they may be experiencing a different world around them, but in the most important ways, they are the same. That's why it is possible for adults to relate to junior highers simply by remembering their own junior high years. If we can stay in touch with our own early adolescence, we can understand much of what our kids are feeling. But while it is true that junior highers day are a lot like junior highers of the past, the same cannot be said for the world in which they live. @Orchidaceae