The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids
by Barbara Strauch
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Author: Barbara StrauchEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-04-15
ISBN: 0385503393
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Doubleday
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Book Review: I couldn't finish it
Summary: 1 Stars
This book was so relentlessly repetitive in stating the subject of discussion that I had to skip to the final chapter to search for conclusions. I usually finish a book or movie but this stands out as a real bomb. Great topic, I wish I could get my $ back.
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Summary of The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids
The first book to provide a scientific explanation of the mysterious, infuriating, and downright weird behavior of teenagers.A mother paces the living room waiting for her sixteen-year-old son to come home hours past his curfew. When he finally saunters in, he answers every question with a blank stare, dashes to his room, and slams the door. The mother, stunned and angry, thinks ?It?s just hormones, right??
Wrong. While raging hormones and an inclination toward rebellion are major players in the teenage drama, an area north of the gonads is directing the show: the brain. In The Primal Teen, Barbara Strauch examines the cutting-edge scientific discoveries that are providing vital new information about what makes teens tick.
Until recently, scientists believed the brain had largely finished its development by the teenage years. But breakthrough research by leading neuroscientists now shows that the adolescent brain is an intensely busy work-in-progress, transforming some sections, radically pruning the synaptic connections, while strengthening those connections that remain. This immense ?rewiring? project provides new clues to explain the swift mood changes, out-of-character responses and reactions, and even the acts of sheer stupidity that have puzzled parents throughout history. Strauch not only sheds new light on these breakthrough findings, she shows how understanding the basis of teenage behavior can lead the way to a saner and smoother relationship between parents and their kids. Through interviews with scientists, teenagers, parents, and teachers, she explores common challenges ? why teens can be so articulate and mature one day and so morose the next, why they engage in risky behavior, and why some kids struggle while others bloom ? and offers practical strategies to help parents and kids manage these often difficult years.
The Primal Teen is a major step forward in deciphering and responding to the moody metamorphosis all teenagers go through.
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