Messages about "groups of death" in social networks, where teens are forced to do terrible things, stirred up the minds and hearts of all parents. How to protect their offspring from risky behavior? Just bans will not solve anything. Children "slipping" in the group on the basis of the trauma that they have - loneliness, nedolyublennosti, low self-esteem ...
How to be parents? First of all - it is important to understand how a child thinks in this very difficult age. Here is the top 5 secrets of the brain-child of a teenager.
prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for solving the problems, Decision making, learning the rules and poems, the perception of their own and other people's emotions, does not work in full force and effect until the person turns around 18-20 years.
callosum (Large fiber bundle consisting of a white substance) connects the left and right brain hemispheres. And if an adult is a connection running at high speeds, in podroska - very slowly. And if you think a child "tupit" blame his corpus callosum.
amygdala (Amygdala) is responsible for intuition and emotion, to be exact - for the processing of emotional experience. This part of the brain is responsible for both reactions in stressful situations - when we face others can "read" their response and to act appropriately. To do this, it is important to "cooperation" between the tonsils and the prefrontal cortex, and this "friendship" teen brain is not quite cope. Skill recognition of emotions is just developing, so children tend to do the wrong conclusions and come to the wrong decisions.
Hormonal teenager System It resembles an orchestra without a conductor, "performing" cacophony. This is due to the fact that the child's blood a lot of sex hormones, growth hormones and stress that choke the production of serotonin, which promotes good mood and is responsible for biological rhythms body. The child has been "inverted mode" when he can not sleep at night and during the day he is half asleep.
And to you all became even clearer look at performance at the TED cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore:
