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THE ROLLER COASTER OF ADOLESCENCE


Purpose: To explore the feelings of an adolescent as she rides the roller coaster of adolescents.
Audience: Adults and Adolescents.

Adolescence. A time of trials, tribulations, happiness, sadness, excitement and most of all finding your personal identity. It’s a time of friendship blues, broken hearts and parent troubles. The best way to describe adolescents is a roller coaster.

Being a child is so much easier than being an adolescent. It’s like riding a miniature roller coaster. The only ups and downs, which you may experience, are not being able to watch playschool. But when you’re an adolescent there’s much bigger fish to fry. (Or so they say).

When you join the long queue of people also waiting to come aboard the Roller coaster of adolescence, you see the look of terror on their faces. Some people are excited but there are only a select few. When you realise that you’re only a step away from riding the roller coaster you ...