Posted on 02/22/2018 8:54:04 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Changing Brains Mean that Adolescents Act Differently From Adults
Pictures of the brain in action show that adolescents' brains work differently than adults when they make decisions or solve problems. Their actions are guided more by the emotional and reactive amygdala and less by the thoughtful, logical frontal cortex. Research has also shown that exposure to drugs and alcohol during the teen years can change or delay these developments.
Based on the stage of their brain development, adolescents are more likely to:
* Act on impulse
* Misread or misinterpret social cues and emotions
* Get into accidents of all kinds
* Get involved in fights
* Engage in dangerous or risky behavior
Adolescents are less likely to:
* Think before they act
* Pause to consider the consequences of their actions
* Change their dangerous or inappropriate behaviors
These brain differences don't mean that young people can't make good decisions or tell the difference between right and wrong. It also doesn't mean that they shouldn't be held responsible for their actions. However, an awareness of these differences can help parents, teachers, advocates, and policy makers understand, anticipate, and manage the behavior of adolescents.
(Excerpt) Read more at aacap.org ...
What every parent of a teenager knows (or should) know.
Add cell phones and scripted CNN interviews.
When my kids were young I constantly joked with them “What’s the worst that could happen?” whenever the possibility of stupid behavior came up.
It got in their head. When they were teenagers and a friend was suggesting that it would be fun to jump off a bridge, my daughter would just laugh and say, “Yeah. What’s the worst that could happen?”
But if you don’t plant the seed, they may not start thinking like that until they’re in their 20s. Which is too late.
“Teen brain”
Now THAT’S an oxymoron!
;^)
so does this also cause the outrageous anxiety seen in many adolescents?
Leftists have this problem and then some well into adulthood.
My point in posting this is to give people a reference source in regards to teenagers leading and co-opting the ‘gun control’ debate.
I guess people on our side are trying to discredit the skulls full of mush who are calling for gun bans.
There's a reason why relatives of crime victims are not admitted to serve on juries in cases where their family member was a victim.. It's because they are not expected to view facts rationally. In fact my experience in being excused from jury duty is that it's not just relatives who are excluded, but anyone who has been the victim of a remotely similar crime is also routinely excused.
And so the kids who were traumatized by this or any school shooting might actually be good problem solvers, etc., but not this problem and not right now.
ML/NJ
“* Act on impulse
* Misread or misinterpret social cues and emotions “
So, then why does the dickchopper establishment insist that adolescents know what they are doing when they want a sex “change” operation?
Then they argue we should lower the voting age.
There's a reason teens are doing the Tide Pod challenge and not 30 year olds.
Two books both fiction tell the truth about teens
Catcher In The Rye
Lord of The Flies
I think the voting age should go back to 21. I’ve seen first hand how teens think, as a high school teacher.
Really, we shouldn't have to study this anymore.
“The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.” ― Alexander Hamilton
but when they want to play dressup and pretend they are the opposite sex, that's OK...
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair. The usurpers, clothed with the forms of legal authority, can too often crush the opposition in embryo. The smaller the extent of the territory, the more difficult will it be for the people to form a regular or systematic plan of opposition, and the more easy will it be to defeat their early efforts. Intelligence can be more speedily obtained of their preparations and movements, and the military force in the possession of the usurpers can be more rapidly directed against the part where the opposition has begun. In this situation there must be a peculiar coincidence of circumstances to insure success to the popular resistance.ML/NJThe obstacles to usurpation and the facilities of resistance increase with the increased extent of the state, provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them. The natural strength of the people in a large community, in proportion to the artificial strength of the government, is greater than in a small, and of course more competent to a struggle with the attempts of the government to establish a tyranny. But in a confederacy the people, without exaggeration, may be said to be entirely the masters of their own fate. Power being almost always the rival of power, the general government will at all times stand ready to check the usurpations of the state governments, and these will have the same disposition towards the general government. The people, by throwing themselves into either scale, will infallibly make it preponderate. If their rights are invaded by either, they can make use of the other as the instrument of redress. How wise will it be in them by cherishing the union to preserve to themselves an advantage which can never be too highly prized!
[Federalist No. 28 excerpt, emphasis added]
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