Dr. Edna Lekgabe

And it was coined back in the 1400s.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, 1400s.

Yeah, it's close.

Totally.

In the 1400s, the Latins, the Latino, not Romans, figured out a word, adolesare, which means just to grow up.

So you were a kid, and then at 12, you were grown.

You were adolesare.

That's it.

You're grown up, you're going to work.

So at 12, you went to work.

Yeah.

Overnight, you go to work.

You start providing for your family.

You go off and get married.

At 12, you're adolescente.

You've grown.

And then in 1904, this American psychologist came along, G. Stanley Hall, and he described the modern adolescence that we know now, which is that it's a really messy hormonal identity issue.

changing sort of space um and he blamed industrialization and um he also blamed school he said school was causing this because kids were were forced to go to school there was mandatory high school in the early 1900 mandatory high school meant that kids weren't able to go to work they had to go and be at this school and it was delayed adulting so he called it like as a disturbance of industrialization that it's like that it should be a quick thing but yeah it should be yeah right okay

Delayed adulting, he called it.