In most , when children reach the age of around twelve or fourteen, there is some sort of ceremony to mark their from childhood to young adulthood. In Ireland, most children are between the ages of about eleven and fifteen, depending on the church they belong to, and Jewish boys have their at the age of thirteen. These are examples of transitional ceremonies to mark the change that is taking place in young people at the of adulthood.
In some cultures young people who are approaching adulthood have to undergo some sort, of test or ordeal. They might have to go off by themselves into the forest, for example, and survive on their own . In other cultures the transition is marked by the older people telling the children the secret stories of the . Once they have these stories, they are no longer children, but grown-up members of the tribe.
But no matter what form these ceremonies and take (and in some cultures they are pretty nasty) every child has to make the journey from childhood to young adulthood for himself or herself.