Adolescents’ brains aren’t fully formed enough to have a “reason” to do something. A researcher/lecturer was saying “You know when you ask your kid why they did that, and they mumble ‘I don’t know’? Well - they REALLY DON’T KNOW.”
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This researcher/lecturer is stupid and/or has no children.
From birth, humans begin manipulating their environment and the people around them in order to get what they want.
Also, one of the first and most relentless questions which children ask is “Why”.
There is absolutely no way that an adolescent’s brain is not formed well enough to understand the reason why he or she does things.
“Geez, what are they teaching these days?”
Maybe it’s what they are NOT teaching them? How many of these kids are taken to church? Wanna bet not at all? My grandmother always said “take your kids to a church that teaches the kids about Jesus Christ” and you know what? she was correct!!
Yes I think these kids “don’t really know” on some level. They think it is some video game and the person will just magically pop back up. Don’t you all know these kids spend thousands of hours playing violent video games and not even 1 hour a week in a church? Even if they do make it to a church one day a week to you think that is enough to undo the violence done by the games? Then there is the crap they get in schools, tv and media. Yea I have to believe on some level they don’t know because parents are not parents anymore.