Habits of a Teenage Brain

Your teenager is no longer a child, but nor are they an adult yet either. Their brain is undergoing huge developmental changes at this stage of their life. As a parent, increasing your awareness of what’s going on inside their head will help you understand their strange and sometimes unexplainable behaviour. Explaining their habits and behaviours in terms of their brain function will help you to develop practical strategies for nurturing and supporting them through this challenging time in their life.

In this lesson, we discuss:
the huge changes that happen to your teenager’s brain and the ways in which this sets up their different ways of behaving; and
why having an incomplete and disconnected brain can often lead your teenager to behave in a seemingly irrational and disjointed manner

We finish with a practical strategy to help you identify the circumstances when your teenager needs comfort and care from you and when they need to be independent and distant from you.