The Teenage Brain: Still Under Construction
The following article explains to parents the age old question "Why do teens seem to make such bad decisions at times?"
Turns out, that the adolescent brain is different from the adult brain in that the frontal lobe- the pat of the brain responsible for considering consequences, assessing probability and weighing choices- has less myelin than the adult brain. Less myelin means that adolescents access this part of the brain less than adults. When parents attempt to teach them life lessons, those talks become background noise when comparing it to "fun" adrenaline inducing activities.