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Post by rainbow on Sept 3, 2018 3:23:45 GMT 10
I'm really not sure if I would actually consider age 12 to be a part of childhood, to be honest. Back when I was 14, I thought as time went on I would eventually consider it my childhood, but even a couple years later I'm still not sure. Where I live, people are in their first year of middle school at age 12 and attend school with 13 and 14-year-olds. It really felt like at the time I was already a "younger teenager". Not only that, but age 12 was when I was firmly in puberty, which wasn't the case when I was 11-years-old.
I can't speak for everyone else's experience, but I think age 12 has more in common with 13 and 14-year-olds than it does with 10 and 11-year-olds. The only thing that makes age 12 different from 13 and 14-year-olds is that they still aren't old enough to join most social media platforms, but when I look at everything else, I feel like they are just like younger teens than older "kid kids".
Do you believe age 12 is still childhood, or would you consider them more of a "younger teenager"?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2018 4:42:32 GMT 10
In where I live (not going to tell you), middle school is grades six through eight (ages 11-14).
A long time ago, the peak of one's childhood was his or her seventh birthday, whereas now, it takes place on one's eighth birthday.
There are some who believe 7.5 is the peak, but that is a controversial opinion, especially for people born in July and August of a certain year.
Based on my personal experiences, I felt as if my childhood was 2003-2009, with 2006 being the peak. In 2003-2005, I felt more like a little kid, whereas in 2007-2009, I felt more like an older kid.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2018 10:29:19 GMT 10
To me it's a part of my childhood (as well as 13) but obviously it's not the same as being 9.
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Post by al on Sept 3, 2018 11:20:49 GMT 10
Middle school starts at age 10 in my city, and age 9 a few towns over, however there was a distinct difference between 5th/6th and 7th/8th. Personally though I never thought grades were a very good distinction, at least not the way they are traditionally organized. I wish they had put 7th/8th/9th together when they were doing some reshuffling here.
I think it's hard for me to consider 12 having much in common with 15/16/17, what I view as the main teen years and where you basically stop changing so much. That's why I like the "tween" years model, including 11-14. Some can be so childish looking and acting at 12 while some are getting pretty developed and tall, so it feels pretty awkward pushing it in either direction. Kind of a "no man's land".
Personally I last genuinely felt like a child at 10. By 12 I had to convince myself. I wasn't really acting like a teen but that's mostly cuz I was a nerd.
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Post by skullmaiden on Sept 3, 2018 13:59:53 GMT 10
Middle school starts at age 10 in my city, and age 9 a few towns over, however there was a distinct difference between 5th/6th and 7th/8th. Personally though I never thought grades were a very good distinction, at least not the way they are traditionally organized. I wish they had put 7th/8th/9th together when they were doing some reshuffling here. I think it's hard for me to consider 12 having much in common with 15/16/17, what I view as the main teen years and where you basically stop changing so much. That's why I like the "tween" years model, including 11-14. Some can be so childish looking and acting at 12 while some are getting pretty developed and tall, so it feels pretty awkward pushing it in either direction. Kind of a "no man's land". Personally I last genuinely felt like a child at 10. By 12 I had to convince myself. I wasn't really acting like a teen but that's mostly cuz I was a nerd. I agree with most of this. 12 is a funny age in that it's neither here nor there. Technically it's still childhood as in it's not your teenage years yet, but close. I didn't feel like my teenage years were in full swing until I turned 14. Schools organize the grades differently depending on what's the norm in one location vs another. A 12 year old that attends an elementary school where 6th grade is the last year will probably feel younger than a 12 year old who is in 6th or 7th grade in a middle school because the environments would be so different.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Sept 3, 2018 19:55:01 GMT 10
I'm not sure if it's possible to regard age 12 as either childhood or adolescence, as it really depends on the individual and their rate of development. Not everyone enters puberty as soon as they turn a certain age. As a result, I generally consider ages 11-12 to be pre-teen/tween years; the transition between childhood and adolescence. I think the "pre-teen" label covers all bases and acknowledges the fact that it is a transitional stage in someone's life. Myself personally, I still felt like I was in my childhood when I was 12, even though I went through a massive growth spurt at the beginning of the year. Age 12 really is strange though. Although I still felt like a kid at the time, I didn't feel as though I was as much of a kid as I had been just a few years earlier (if that makes sense.  ).
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Post by smartboi on Sept 4, 2018 5:55:30 GMT 10
Personally I would consider 12 to be apart of my childhood, albeit a very transitional part. By the time I was 12 I stopped playing with my toys. It wasn't until I was almost 13 when I became interested in girls. By the time I was 14 I was a totally different person.
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Post by al on Sept 4, 2018 9:52:15 GMT 10
One thing that I find kind of interesting is how in English, since 13 ends in "teen", we consider 13yos "teenagers", when more of us than not are not really there yet developmentally.
For example, in Spanish 13 is "trece", which to me sounds very similar to 11 "once" and 12 "doce". In my experience, these ages are quite similar, being the "tweens", though it doesn't change over to the diec- prefix until 16.
Does anybody know whether in a Spanish speaking country (or anywhere else) if 13 is considered a teen year in the same way it is in anglo countries?
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Post by TheUser98 on Sept 4, 2018 17:42:44 GMT 10
In where I live (not going to tell you), middle school is grades six through eight (ages 11-14). Well if you don't want them to know, why did you even need to say you're not going to tell them?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2018 20:31:31 GMT 10
In where I live (not going to tell you), middle school is grades six through eight (ages 11-14). Well if you don't want them to know, why did you even need to say you're not going to tell them? It is because Vaeslynn talked about the situation regarding where she lived.
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Post by X2M on Sept 5, 2018 5:04:40 GMT 10
I used to consider it part of childhood, but when I realized that middle school is much similar to high school, I now started seeing it ( as well as age 11) as part of adolescence.
As for myself, I didn't feel like a kid anymore by then since I stopped playing toys and other childhood activities a few years before middle school and that I had already begun watching mature or late night shows at that point.
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Post by Telso on Sept 5, 2018 18:38:08 GMT 10
In some ways, definitely yes, it's still a very juvenile early age where you're still completely allowed to play with toys and watching kiddie stuff and having a childish behavior without being "culturally frowned upon" (once you hit 13 you're expected to immediately act like a little more mature teen tragically enough).
On other areas by this age you're definitely losing the childhood's innocence and naivety, and more apt to make independent decisions and being more interested/invested in serious media.
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Post by dount2005 on Sept 8, 2018 8:22:19 GMT 10
It is the preteens. It is not quite childhood anymore but not yet a teenager.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2018 22:36:57 GMT 10
One thing that I find kind of interesting is how in English, since 13 ends in "teen", we consider 13yos "teenagers", when more of us than not are not really there yet developmentally. For example, in Spanish 13 is "trece", which to me sounds very similar to 11 "once" and 12 "doce". In my experience, these ages are quite similar, being the "tweens", though it doesn't change over to the diec- prefix until 16. Does anybody know whether in a Spanish speaking country (or anywhere else) if 13 is considered a teen year in the same way it is in anglo countries? French is similar to Spanish, and it wouldn't be controversial to call a 12 (douze) or 13 (treize) year old an "ado" (teen). 16 in French is seize, though, the dix- prefix doesn't start until 17 (dix-sept).
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Post by Khal on Sept 10, 2018 9:28:14 GMT 10
To me yea its childhood because most 12 year olds dont have the mentality of real teens which i think is 14-17
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