"Brian Reay" wrote in message
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David P wrote:
Understanding the Teen Brain

It doesnt matter how smart teens are or how well they scored on
the SAT or ACT. Good judgment isnt something they can excel in,
at least not yet.

The rational part of a teens brain isnt fully developed and
wont be until age 25 or so.

In fact, recent research has found that adult and teen brains
work differently. Adults think with the prefrontal cortex, the
brains rational part. This is the part of the brain that responds
to situations with good judgment and an awareness of long-term
consequences. Teens process information with the amygdala.
This is the emotional part.

In teens brains, the connections between the emotional part of
the brain and the decision-making center are still developingand
not always at the same rate. Thats why when teens have overwhelming
emotional input, they cant explain later what they were thinking.
They werent thinking as much as they were feeling.
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https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyc...1&ContentID051



Over my time in teaching, I met some teenagers who were remarkably
sensible.

If I say so myself, our three daughters were - they had their
moments but nothing to worry about, just the kind of thing we
laugh at now and I mentioned (or will do) at their weddings.

But those moments may well have been due to
the way teen brains works compared with adults.

Much of it comes down to parents.

Not with how the teen brain works compared with adult brains.

I recall a particular pupil who wasnt
sensible by any stretch of the imagination.

We arent talking about sensible.

Hed got into a particularly serious/silly matter and
a more senior teacher had contacted his parents.
The senior teacher spoke to me later as his form tutor
€˜You can see where he gets it from. summed up the
situation perfectly.

Sure but thats an entirely separate matter from
whether teen brains work differently to adult brains.

There's a reason that teens are used as cannon fodder world wide...