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[00:00.83]Lesson 34
[00:02.71]Adolescence
[00:10.30]What do adolescents respect in parents?
[00:16.18]Parents are often upset when their children praise the homes of their friends and regard it as a slur on their own cooking, or
cleaning, or furniture,
[00:26.68]and often are foolish enough to let the adolescents see that they are annoyed.
[00:32.24]They may even accuse them of disloyalty, or make some spiteful remark about the friends' parents.
[00:39.58]Such a loss of dignity and descent into childish behaviour on the part of the adults deeply shocks the adolescents,
[00:48.13]and makes them resolve that in future they will not talk to their parents about the places or people they visit.
[00:55.96]Before very long the parents will be complaining that the child is so secretive and never tells them anything,
[01:03.19]but they seldom realize that they have brought this on themselves.
[01:08.63]Disillusionment with the parents,
[01:11.02]however good and adequate they may be both as parents and as individuals, is to some degree inevitable.
[01:20.05]Most children have such a high ideal of their parents,
[01:23.92]unless the parents themselves have been unsatisfactory, that it can hardly hope to stand up to a realistic evaluation.