Nana Renamblings on: Adults-Less-Sense
RAMBLE ALERT: Several things have happened this week to have mothers/parenting/adolescents/etc. on my mind...so here goes... PUBERTY: Its a state of being that's not fully human. A s a psychiatrist on a talk show put it - "If we were to chemically recreate puberty in a shot or a pill and give it to middle-aged people they would be jumping off of buildings and driving off of bridges because they could not handle what was occurring in their brains and bodies." We know that the human brain is not finished developing until age 25. That is when the brain maxes out its growth potential -- all the little connections that were ever going to happen have happened. The last part of it to develop is the frontal-lobe. There is where the ability to consider long-term consequences of immediate actions resides. As an adult you need to make a left hand turn onto a busy street... While you are looking both ways you aren't just thinking "Can I make it?" ...