Key points

The adolescent’s search for novelty and emotional intensity isn't the reason teens act aggressively or rudely.

Calling teenagers "crazy" keeps the spotlight off of parents and their contribution to parent-teen conflicts.

Due to mistaken beliefs about adolescence, a lot of bad behavior is normalized as "typical" teen behavior.

Recent advances in brain research have confirmed for us that there are qualitative differences between the brain of an adolescent and that of an adult, impacting the way adolescents remember, think, reason, focus attention , make decisions, and relate. Dan Siegel, clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA School Medicine, and author of many books related to the neuroscience of behavior and relationships, writes that these changes show up in the fol

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