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Common sense.

What every parent of a teenager knows (or should) know.

1 posted on 02/22/2018 8:54:04 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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drugs and alcohol during the teen years can change or delay these developments

Add cell phones and scripted CNN interviews.

2 posted on 02/22/2018 8:58:14 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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3 posted on 02/22/2018 9:02:55 AM PST by HangnJudge
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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.


4 posted on 02/22/2018 9:07:58 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The revolution will not be televised (at least, not by CNN).)
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“Teen brain”

Now THAT’S an oxymoron!

;^)


5 posted on 02/22/2018 9:12:25 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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so does this also cause the outrageous anxiety seen in many adolescents?


6 posted on 02/22/2018 9:21:35 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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Leftists have this problem and then some well into adulthood.


7 posted on 02/22/2018 9:27:47 AM PST by Trillian
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This all such BS. Anyone want to tell me that Bill Buckley couldn't act rationally when he was a teen? Or Ben Franklin? Or ML/NJ?

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

9 posted on 02/22/2018 9:48:32 AM PST by ml/nj
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“* 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?


10 posted on 02/22/2018 9:49:59 AM PST by I want the USA back (Free Republic keeps me from going insane in a world that has chosen insanity over reason.)
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Two books both fiction tell the truth about teens

Catcher In The Rye

Lord of The Flies


12 posted on 02/22/2018 10:20:28 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. - Pv 22:15

Really, we shouldn't have to study this anymore.

14 posted on 02/22/2018 12:02:27 PM PST by pa_dweller (When we're truly living in 'Idiocracy' will we know it?)
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but when they want to play dressup and pretend they are the opposite sex, that's OK...
16 posted on 02/22/2018 3:05:41 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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