Continuing the dialog on the teen brain
"When adolescence hit Frances Jensen's sons, she often found herself
wondering, like all parents of teenagers, "What were you thinking?""It's a resounding mantra of parents and teachers," says Jensen, who's a pediatric neurologist at Children's Hospital in Boston.
Like when son number one, Andrew, turned 16, dyed his hair black with red stripes and went off to school wearing studded leather and platform shoes. And his grades went south.
"I watched my child morph into another being, and yet I knew deep down inside it was the same Andrew," Jensen says. Suddenly her own children seemed like an alien species."
For the full article Click here
No comments:
Post a Comment