Interesting qoutes for parents who have teens offering food for thought.
“We’re so used to seeing adolescence as a problem. But the more we learn about what really makes this period unique, the more adolescence starts to seem like a highly functional, even adaptive period. It’s exactly what you’d need to do the thing you have to do then.” - National Geographic, The New Science Of The Teenage Brain
“Our youth want less adult contact if that contact treats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter”. – Michael Gurian, from his book, The Wonder of Boys
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“In scientific terms, teenagers can be a pain in the ass. But they are quite possibly the most fully, crucially adaptive human beings around.” - National Geographic, The New Science Of The Teenage Brain
