Epoch Times – Amy Williams
“Kids do incomprehensible things: every parent knows this. Of course, that doesn’t mean our responses as parents are necessarily any more logical. Teens have a good excuse, though: their brains are at a volatile moment of development, between childhood to adulthood. Medical evidence has proven that teens are hardwired to act more on emotion, avoid thinking about risk, and generally set themselves up for potential catastrophe. This is because the prefrontal cortex, which regulates emotion and decision making, is vulnerable due to brain developments, and can lead to these kinds of impaired judgments…For more information on the teenage brain’s development, and why parenting teens can be a tricky undertaking, see the infographic below.”(more)