Have you ever wondered why it is sometimes difficult to get a teenager to listen and do what you want him to do? Have you ever wondered why it is often best to not entirely leave an adolescent alone to make his or her decisions? Well, watch this video and the proof will become very clear to you. It makes me think of Proverbs 22:6 ...
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."
I mean, literally, there are "Neronic Pathways" permanently formed in the organicity of your kid's brain matter, as you do what that Bible tells you to do in training him!!!
(NOTE: The Frontal Lobe Cortex of the brain of young men and women do not mature to full growth for functional decsion-making until about ages 22-24.)
Haven't clicked on the U Tube yet...but how come my generation couldn't be teenagers & young adults? i mean i'm only 44 but we had to work to get degrees & get jobs..this lot just seem to have a never-ending childhood..OK my eldest is very good...rant over!
ReplyDeleteI've not watched the video either (I'm on dialup on my home computer), but I've heard this before.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm not convinced. Or maybe I've just been influenced by the witness of Grace that superscedes science.
Over and over again, I've been told by youth ministers and other people that kids don't "understand" certain things or "can't make decisions" or some other thing because "their brains aren't fully developed".
And I'm sorry, but it doesn't ring true. I'm not an extraordinary person or a genius by any means, but when I was a teen, I was VERY calculating and looked to the future to get me out of the life I was living. I looked at consequences, I thought them out, and I made real life decisions.
Those decisions I made impulsively then are likely the same kinds of decisions I make impulsively now....it's called "the human condition".
What I DO see is a world of over-indulgence, a world that provides TOO MANY CHOICES and doesn't aid kids in the art of DISCERNMENT. It's a world that has already deemed teens to be hopeless and forces them into a position of having to rely on others who have, in ignorance, decided that their children would make the same pot and LSD-inspired choices they did when under those influences...never mind that most teens today are NOT into that culture of mind-altering drugs.
I see kids that are hobbled by a culture of overwhelming materialsm, and adults are suffering the exact same effects; they can't prioritize either.
It may be called science, but I'm not buying it...because, especially in considering history and other cultures and what teens do there, and how they become "adults" at very young ages...well...the brains of American teens do NOT develop at a different rate now than ever before.
The problem is the culture...not the development.
/rant.
Just my opinion.