European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse And its uses. ,. Unah Amable. A 12 year old girl May collect pictures of a particular movie Star or Rock musician. A is year old boy May fantasize about a fiend s sister who is in College. Bui their selections Are not random. It s rare for adolescents to have a crush on. Someone whom nobody else has a crush said or Pieler Leroux a clinical psychologist and director of. The family and marriage clinic Al the University of Rochester medical Center. It s a Sale Way of testing new emotions he continued. A s also a Way of testing what poors find acceptable.". Lervik recalled a time when his two teen age daughters each had crushes on movie stars. One favored Tom cruise while the other was in love with. Harrison Ford. They would compete with each bother he said. Each would Tell the other Why her crush was More exciting ii was a Way Tor them to individualize /. This type61 crush occur s As children Are beginning of accept the idea Hal Hoy wiil eventually leave Home and cease receiving their parents Day to Day care they arc looking Tor ways to try Oul new forms of intimacy. Rather than Rushing into face of face intimate relationships pie adolescents search for ways to Lake Hall stops they May suddenly spend much More time1 on the Telephone for example it is easier to express new and difficult emotions when they have the safety and privacy o distance -.,-similarly having a crush gives children an Opportunity to rehearse some of the feelings they expect when they re older and to put some of their ears in perspective olten . Child Oget some emotional distance away from the Home and to find1 someone who is version of a Parent said or. Stone l Hauser a psychiatrist with the Labora Lory of social psychiatry at Harvard medical school. a other words it is easier to believe in that Ideal when you Only see the love object on a movie or television screen. Hopi Wood stars 0 course never get Grumpy or Sci embarrassing things the Way patents do. The essence of a crush is int the relationship is fantasy. Children control both halves within their Imaginal ions they Are Safe there Are no. Consequences to their actions. Bui what would happen if Tom cruise or Harrison for re suddenly showed up at the door i a Girt who. Had a crush on one ? / " she d probably run away and men dissolve into 1 giggles in a Back oof Saiof in Annec ,.adevelopmental psychologist arid professor by human development at Pennsylvania state University Only a Smalt percentage could actually carry on a conversation for most kids it would be Loo overwhelming " crawling triggers babies development by Sally Carpenter Hale associated press he 8-month old was t fooled when the Stopwatch Inal had looked so interesting was covered with a cloth. He yanked the cloth away. But research under Way around the United states suggests he might not have been s can go out and about in the world confidently. Think sad and handle each situation As it occurs you la Boi Mjoy your time together because you did. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 15
