It must be hard being the parent of a teenager. On the one hand, you might have vivid memories of doing things as a teen that you shouldn’t have - situations where ‘adult you’ would have made a different choice. So you try to impart that wisdom to a child who is probably going to choose to do the stupid thing anyway (just like you did).
The reason, though, isn’t that teenage brains haven’t developed properly. It’s because, as evolutionary criminologist Evelyn Svingen explains, they are designed for a time of life when becoming more independent from family and forming strong peer relationships is crucial.
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