Adolescents' learning about caring for themselves: the return to parental teachings

Abstract

Introduction: Research conducted with adolescents where identifies the care of himself same like construction in the parental relations. Objective: analyze the learning of self care of adolescents in late stage and the way in which narratives of parents are taken into account in the daily life. Method: qualitative- ethnographic; focus groups and semi-structured interviews were carried out. The participants were adolescents between the ages of 16 and 19. Results: For adolescents taught by parents is framed in the rules and guidelines to avoid mistakes in decision making; To consider and accept these teachings is to walk to the self-knowledge of themselves. Discussion: Parental relationships are conditioned by the power and control that parents exert on their children through the regulation of the norm, being an aspect of restraint and tension for adolescents. To Live the experience of being a teenager, of recognizing the error, is what defines them as subjects and recreates possibilities to make decisions and act in the face of everyday circumstances. Conclusion: Teenagers learn through their own experiences to take care of themselves. The teachings received by the parents form their system of values, which is resignified through the conduct that they promote in each lived experience; This resignification brings new ways of thinking and acting, defining its identity and how it assumes its life.