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"Now we have children
with door keys at age
seven," said .Mrs. Cassel,
"and young people
shacking up without ever
consulting parents.'.'
As a result of all this,
Mrs. Cassel went on,
young people are
struggling for self-
identity. It is why their
clothes and their music
are so different from the
clothes worn by mom and
dad and the music
usually enjoyed by
adults.
NEW
DESIGNATION
Mrs. Cassel believes
that adolescence is a
fairly new state of being.
She said that in earlier
societies, a boy became a
man when he could sire a
cTiild - a girl became a
woman when she could
GDCI teacher, George Sutton, :was used to
demonstrate the operation of the breathalizer
machine by OPP constable John Phillips and
Goderich Sergeant Mery Witter during a workshop
at Professional Teacher Activity Day held at GDCI
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Development Day
Gives adolescent
woe_
the difficulty, offer any
assistance that is in-
dicated and maybe even
display a sense of humor
concerning the whole
affair.
"You wouldn't say,
'You idiot, why did you
get into such a mess?"
said Mrs. Cassel..
The "do -your -own -
thing philosophy" has
cheated young people, the
speaker claimed. She
said children who have
come through this very
permissive period at
home and at school. have
been left with a very
"slim repertoire of
skillsand the wrong
impression that the world
owes them something".
They soom become
dep> ened`antidepressiori.
leads to feelings of in-
feriority, frustration and
misery.
Adolescents must be
taught to get along with
themselves by adults who
demonstrate by their own
lives that they can also
get along with their own
selves. As well, young
people must learn how to
make friends and how to
keep .friendships ..healthy--
"Listen
.eal hy.:._"Listen to the kids,"
added Mrs. Cassel.
"Many of them have a
feeling they are
unheard."
She also said
adolescents must be
given the skills to "enjoy
the_ privilege of work ,
S15e charged "that 'in.
today's society, work is
equated too much with
money - no money, no
work. What's more,
many parents and.
teachers unknowingly
teach that work is a
punishing experience -
son stays out late so he
must cut the lawn as a
punishment; a student
disrupts the class so he is
assigned an essay as
discipline.
Professional
BY SHIRLEY J.
KELLER
Professional.
development day for
elementary and secon-
dary school teachers
from West Huron was
Monday at Goderich
District. Collegiate
Institute when one of the
main speakers of the day
was Mrs. Pearl Cassel, a
full time student at the
University of Toronto and
a candidate for a doc-
torate in Psychology.
Mrs. Cassers expertise
in discipline attracted
teachers at a morning
session dealing with
younger children and an
afternoon lecture when
the problems of
adolescents were the
About 50 teachers sat in
after lunch to hear Mrs.
Cassel, the mother of a
teenage son now in his
first year at the
University of Western
Ontario, explain some of
the thoughts that go,
through the minds of
adolescents. Mrs. Cassel
said she has discovered in
her studies that
teenagers often . feel
totally alienated from the
adult world, and consider
the "peer group" the
most important value
forming agent in their
sphere of activity.
"Adulthood used to be a
prize, a privilege," said
Mrs. Cassel "But that's
>.'.. gym, more-
rt,4.
not true any
The. speaker said there
is "no clear cut picture
any more" of the future.
• Young people are con-
cerned about what's
ahead for them when they
note that adults are
unhappy, unfulfilled,
uncertain and sometimes
unemployed. .
Add to this the physical
changes a young person
experiences starting
about age 12 as well as
the social changes the
youngster must face, and
adolescents begin to ask,
"Who am I? What am I?"
"About the only place
they can resort to for
answers is the peer
group," . explained Mrs.
Cassel.
She . stressed the fact
that if teachers, parents
and other adults want to
understand adolescents
better, they must learn to
work with teenagers
while they are within the
comfortable confines of
the peer group.
"That's the only way to
get things done," said the
speaker. She urged
classroom teachers to set
aside a specific time each
week to talk to their
students as a group - and
to listen to their com-
ments about how well the
lessons are prepared,
what's good and bad
about the classroom
sessions,' where im-
provements can be made,
how to approach the
future, etc.
"And teachers must be
prepared to take some of
these suggestions to the
teachers' meetings,"
observed Mrs. Cassel.
RESPECT,
FRIENDSHIP, , ,
TRUST
Three things are
necessary before there
can be any meaningful
dialogue with
adolescents, Mrs. Cassel
said. They are respect for
the adolescents as people
with all their differences,
their strengths, their
weaknesses; friendship;
and the need to
remember that it is
important to treat
adolescent friends much
c›,€)
the same as one would.
treat a friend who was
older; and trust, knowing
that anyone is more apt to
respond with trust if trust
is given.
The speaker pointed
out that when an adult
friend gets into trouble,
for instance, the first
inclination is to minimize
OPPOSITES
ATTRACT?
Adolescents, too, must
be shown how, to manage
their sexuality. ' Mrs.
Cassel said that many of
today's young people of
opposite sexes are
"acting out the behaviour
because they don't know
how to communicate with
each other".
Society, according to
Mrs. Cassel is
deliberately setting up
two social camps - boys
against the girls.
"It ends up with these
kids exploiting each other
sexually," said the
speaker, , . pointing out
that young people can not
understand their
biological needs in
relation to the enemy, the
opposite sex. She ex-
plained that if boys and
girls were taught to
communicate honestly
and openly with each
other, their problems
with sexuality would be
diminished.
Young people, as well,
must be shown how to
find a meaning for
existence. In years gone
by, the church and the
state used to do much of
this work, , but now it is
much different.
As an example, the
speaker said that
students used to have to
"pass honestly" from one
grade to another with a
set of examinations and
from elementary school
into secondary school
with a prescribed set of
questions set down by the
ministry of education.
What's more, there
were confirmation
classes at the church or
some sort of "coming of
age" outside the home
and the school. Not many
years ago, students could
graduate from school at
14 years of age; they
were given a door key at
18; they followed the
custom of asking a girl's
father for her hand in
marriage.
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Ten workshops were held during the day by various
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give birth.
"But now we hold them
in a suspended state for
10 years or more," she
claimed. "Adolescents.
Not children. Not
adults."
"When kids have no
absolutes, they become
discouraged," the
speaker said. "They
deliberately shut up their
heads, for instance, and
they won't learn. It's very
difficult for today's
bright youngsters, but it
is their way of fighting
back."
Next comes a feeling of
inferiority, frustration
and finally misery. When
the misery stage is
reached, Mrs. Cassel
said; people feeljustified
to do things that are
wrong. If there is enough
misery, a person will say,
"I'm so miserable that I
need to drink (steal, lie,
murder, etc.)" It
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