Show Your Doctor Says The following i ii is one of f a series e cr of 01 articles article written wrife by members fibers o of 01 the Utah State Slate Medical Association and published in cooperation with your gour local lo Ia- cal newspaper These articles are scheduled to appear every other week throughout the year yeat In an II effort elfort to better acquaint you with wit problems of health laigh and designed to improve the being writ cing o oj othe the people of 01 Utah The Adolescent Girl Part art II The child ha has begun to write her own declaration of independence dence in little conflicts about housework about the decor of the house about the choice in clothes in argumentative retorts to the blandest generalizations her parents parents par par- en Is utter However the well adjusted adjusted child becomes a well ad adjusted adolescent In the teenager teen ager ger who Is not seriously dis emotionally there are arc not violently serious r rebellions e belli 0 n s against reasonable authority Conversely Conversely Con Con- if there was no resolution of the pre-adolescent pre conflicts conflict accentuation of the symptoms of emotional motional disturbance should be anticipated during adolescence An adolescent with chronic disease dis ease that requires long term tenn management n needs some special help during this period of search for tor independence because of the added problem of illness The adolescent girl finds a new interest In m boys She may shift very rry suddenly from hoydenish school child behavior to ladylike inadequacy when sh she appreciates that hat Queen Guinevere could ex ex- expect lCt Iet c chivalry from Sir Lancelot ancelot my ny if it she refrained front from enter enter- ii J 1 the jousts herself Her new d of ot boys boy may Ch change e her In Ut vior from a II hodge hodge podge of oft t i exhibitionist dl display ply to ti shy 1 with- with It is unforgivable to 10 tease or a II on a Ut such u is viii Pi l' l S. S Sit S.- know kow that i l. l I i t se sc six is u. mm and de de- fhe ii II L. L Un-ol Un hui lJ be ve I-ve to 10 dive die P p in a warm fi ii endly home environment II She Slit should n 18 ue r n unable 11 w with cups of f f. f of both sexes exe her own ui u t d adult i ii il fl i ut ml lull alt tun HI U te I grad ad a y ht u I ii li rs rc TV tuni dating of middle and late teens begins You have perhaps felt a little ashamed of sudden flashes of hostility hos hos- toward this beautiful girl who alternates in minutes from lofty independence to demanding childishness When she had temper temper tem tern per tantrums In Infancy you con con- trolled tidied your irritability within the reasonable limits of your own justifiable human emotions and saw her grow crow into a sturdy confident confident con con- child who no longer needed such immature responses as tan You have need of those same talents now that you possessed pos then This time you may have your feelings hurt because in these conflicts you OU meet briefly as two adults Occasionally you suffer trauma from the weapon that Shakespeare knew to be sharper than a serpents serpent's tooth In these sessions borrow advice from teenagers dont don't make a production production pro pro- of 01 St St. Remember that you have almost reached your goal goal- to guide your infant to 10 independent independent dent adulthood It o oily ly takes her hera a little time and practice now to 10 distinguish independence and strength from froni rebellion and con conS Loosen the bonds so that Ihal she can have independence and growth In all the details of daily dally living Then you will vill find fand it easier for lor both of you yot when you must t hold fast to the few Important rules where family authority must continue This fear for tor your adolescent daughter is not new You felt it t when she learned to in walk and risked falling But now now you think it ismore ismore is ismore more serious These falls tails she risks are lire far lar more dangerous Yes her risks now are nearer to the dangers adults must fate face fa but she has had the value of oui guidance and protection and love Ju and example fur for fourteen She Is U now prepared to meet inel IK her new problems problem while she still enjoys en t joys joy the shelter of at a u warm niM linden understanding home Jf if f some days doys are ure n during duran this tune time of growth ui i change renumber the corn COlli sating atin pride e you Il frel in I o new I t L yourself be Lie caught rp LP ott ov I ally in hex her gusty i lAnd l- l And nd fn oV y her r new W sense ot 01 humor that onh nl i n II young and fresh tresh can create reatO 1 I i mind too much that you yuu ar er IU a u I of ot a square Find sol solute ct m UI tl 11 ry that you ou were hep wl wI i n J. nou you ou were a |