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MickinMD KOM / QOM

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"The teenage brain isn’t fully developed, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. In fact the prefontal cortex, which manages rational thought, problem-solving and consequences, doesn’t fully develop until the mid-20s."

So what?  I taught teenagers for decades and their partly-developed brains knew enough about danger to avoid walking across streets in traffic or along crumbling cliff edges, swallowing a bottle of pills, etc.  They knew that most rules involved with safety are there for a reason.

Personally, when I was a teenager and kids my age were smoking dried banana leaves because there were hints of it in Donovan's song "Mellow Yellow" we teenagers thought they were idiots.  So our prefontal cortexes, which manage rational thought, problem-solving and consequences, weren't fully developed by they were developed enough.

In England, they did a recent survey and asked, "When should boys first begin to act like men?"  The average answer was 12 years-old.

In America, children are held to less and less responsibility as time goes on.  In most schools, kids can't be punished for frequently arriving late, if they're caught smoking they're not punished unless they were actually seen to inhale, not "just" hold the lit cigarette in their hands, etc.  That certainly hasn't had a positive effect on the attitudes of our graduates!

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Just now, MickinMD said:

"The teenage brain isn’t fully developed, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. In fact the prefontal cortex, which manages rational thought, problem-solving and consequences, doesn’t fully develop until the mid-20s."

So what?  I taught teenagers for decades and their partly-developed brains knew enough about danger to avoid walking across streets in traffic or along crumbling cliff edges, swallowing a bottle of pills, etc.  They knew that most rules involved with safety are there for a reason.

Personally, when I was a teenager and kids my age were smoking dried banana leaves because there were hints of it in Donovan's song "Mellow Yellow" we teenagers thought they were idiots.  So our prefontal cortexes, which manage rational thought, problem-solving and consequences, weren't fully developed by they were developed enough.

In England, they did a recent survey and asked, "When should boys first begin to act like men?"  The average answer was 12 years-old.

In America, children are held to less and less responsibility as time goes on.  In most schools, kids can't be punished for frequently arriving late, if they're caught smoking they're not punished unless they were actually seen to inhale, not "just" hold the lit cigarette in their hands, etc.  That certainly hasn't had a positive effect on the attitudes of our graduates!

Interesting enough, death of pre-teens is steadily at or near all time lows - trending lower all the time.  Teens, with the exception of suicides, also have an all time low and are trending lower.  

It's almost like, despite the modern kids pure idiocy, they still our survive the countless generations before them.  Weird. 

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