Teenage Brain

Parents do not understand their teenager sons or daughters, and they do not understand their parents. This is because the teenagers are having drastic changes on their body as in their brains, which brings to emotional problems. In the video I really learned that every thing that a teenager goes through, his change in mood, and their way of dealing with things are all the cause of the devolpement they are having on their brain because the brain is what mainly controls our emotions and actions. Another important characteristic that a teenager brain has is the way of thinking that they can do anything they want to and that it does not make any change if its very dangerous and could kill them. A teenager´s brain, is very different from what it was before as a kid and different but close to be how it is going to be as an adult just the same way it goes with puberty. A very important part of the brain being developed through our teenage years is the frontal lobe. A very important thing that helps us the teenagers to have a good development of our brains is too have good sleep but the problem is that all the activities,school work and any other important stuff does not allow a teenager to get the amount of sleep required every day(8 hours the least) so that makes things worst making the teenager have a more slow and uneasy way to learn new stuff for a good development of their brain.

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