CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS

XAVIER SEGOVIA

CHILDREN + TEENAGERS = YOUTH Youth

Youth is the time of life between childhood and adulthood Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes youth vary. An individual's actual maturity may not correspond to their chronological age

Around the world, the terms "youth", "adolescent", "teenager", and "young person" are interchanged, often meaning the same thing, occasionally differentiated. Youth generally refers to a time of life that is neither childhood nor adulthood, but rather somewhere in-between. Youth also identifies a particular mindset of attitude, as in "He is very youthful". The term youth is also related to being young.

"This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease." - Robert Kennedy Youth is an alternative word to the scientifically-oriented adolescent and the common terms of teen and teenager. Another common title for youth is young person or young people.

"Time in a person's life between childhood and adulthood.

The term children" in general refers to those who are between the ages of 3 to 12 The term "youth" in general refers to those who are between the ages of 15 to 25