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Living with Adolescents:

Living with Adolescents:. Surviving the Second Infancy. The Teenage Brain . Pruning Myelination. Frontal Lobes. Planning Organizing Decision making Learning from feedback Impulse control Understanding cause and effect Working memory. “What were you thinking?!” (Baird, 2006).

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Living with Adolescents:

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  1. Living with Adolescents: Surviving the Second Infancy

  2. The Teenage Brain • Pruning • Myelination

  3. Frontal Lobes • Planning • Organizing • Decision making • Learning from feedback • Impulse control • Understanding cause and effect • Working memory

  4. “What were you thinking?!” (Baird, 2006)

  5. So what do we do since yelling at them, kicking them, or trying to shake sense into them isn’t going to make their brains mature faster?

  6. How to Survive: • Be patient • Provide clear expectations • Restate, restate, restate • Role model • Let them make some mistakes – they need the experience.

  7. References • Baird, A.A. (2006). “Whatever.” Presentation. • Feinstein, Sheryl (2007). “Secrets of the Teenage Brain.” Presentation. • http://www.ahaf.org/alzdis/about/AnatomyBrain.htm • http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-11/sfn-smm110803.php • http://www.memory-key.com/MemoryGuide/glossary_brain.htm • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work/adolescent.html • http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/pgsa/Course%20Readings/Frontal%20Lobes/F2005/Paus.pdf • http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_Adolescent_brain • http://www.teenpregnancy.org/resources/reading/pdf/BRAIN.pdf

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