Biblical Perspective on the Life Span

Life span psychological theory has been described as a special category of human-development or cultural-psychology theory. A core concept is "the way cultural traditions and social practices regulate, express, transform, and permute the human psyche, resulting less in psychic unity for humankind than in ethnic divergences in mind, self, and emotion" (Shweder 1). Whereas much psychological theory focuses on the individual's "central processing mechanism" and its "fundamental division" from "context," or external environment (Shweder 5), human development begins with context. Goodnow, Miller, and Kessel (2) refer to "a unified view of development and culture as intertwined processes." Human cognition, learning, and selfhood interpenetrate one another and the culture in which they emerge: "you can't take the stuff out of the psyche and you can't take the psyche out of the stuff" (Shweder 22).

The lifespan approach to human development tracks continuous transformation based on response to unfolding experience. "Development through participation" (Goodnow, Miller, and Kessel 41) is consistent with the subjective experience of continuous ide

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let the people go. The willingness of parents to relinquish everything, including possession of their children, for the children's well-being is a challenge that speaks for itself. Sadly, the bleak persistence of child abuse speaks for itself as well. Challenges for Adolescents Autonomy. According to Fulingi and Eccles (passim), the stronger the parental control in matters touching on their adolescents' social and personal lives, the more likely the adolescents are to identify with their peers' authority and guidance than with their parents'. The challenge for adolescents is not to develop a pathological social orientation, and for parents not to trust top-down authoritarianism as a good parenting model. The first chapter of Proverbs, attributed to Solomon (Prov. 1:1), develops the view that good parental counsel is essential in the project of keeping an adolescent on a good and useful life track. At Proverbs 1.7, the text says that "fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." That ground rule established, a concerned father proceeds to give instruction about the dangers of peer pressure: My son, hear the instructions of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they
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