Study: Teens have difficulty expressing their need for limits

Researchers from the IWK Health Center’s Adolescent Center for treatment reveal that when teenagers push away from their parents, they might actually just want to get closer, reports The Chronicle Herald.

Researchers found that the frontal lobe of the brain controls decision-making, and they are not fully developed in teens. Furthermore, they concluded that many parents push their children too quickly to become adult-like when their brains are not fully developed to handle it.

Teens are more likely to take risks and less likely to think of the consequences because their brains are not being fully developed. Furthermore, experts say that adolescents have difficulties choosing between independence and security from their parents.

Analysts say that adolescents want family ties, but they might have a difficult time expressing those needs to their parents. Boarding schools can help teens who feel they need a sense of security and responsibility by offering education and recreational activities designed to help them succeed socially and behaviorally.

Experts suggest that teens need safer risk-taking techniques as well as limits set by their parents because they help children feel more safe and secure.