I’m starting to go the opposite direction of all the “you’re a literal baby infant until 25 bc your bwain is a baby bwain :(” shit
We should be treating teens as more adult than we do. I don’t mean some lowering the age of consent creep shit, I mean presuming competence. Get a job, learn life skills, learn to cook, be fully responsible for a pet, walk places alone (in daylight) or with a friend, have intergenerational friendships, teach skills to littler kids, be someone people can trust with more than wiping their own ass. Be someone they themselves can trust to do stuff and go places. We’re stealing children’s confidence by treating them like they can’t do anything. Treat them like they can and should do many adult things and more will find the confidence to practice at them.
Yes, the brain isn’t finished growing when you’re like 15. No, you shouldn’t get treated like a preschooler till it is. The general experience of adulthood is like 90% practice 10% maturity I think. The maturity is needed but it doesn’t account for much if you just do nothing.
And, I’ll say it again for the people in the back, the study on continued brain development did not say that brain development stopped at 25. The first cohort was 25 when the study ran out of funding and had to shut down. For all we know, the brain never stops developing. It certainly never stops changing. And where’s the line?
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