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What can you do? explains why these myths need to be
Be kind to yourself. Understand challenged and corrected.
growing and doing your best. If you : The teenage years
truly feel that you made a mistake are not about surviving. They are
you can explain to your child, “I was about thriving. There’s a lot of work
very angry when I told you that you that is happening during adolescence
couldn’t… and I’ve decided to change that needs to happen in order to de-
velop core character traits for the fu-
ture. Teenagers who test boundaries
and who have the passion to explore
are working on themselves.
There are more hor-
mones during the teenage years, but
it is the changes in the way the brain
A:
teenage behavior.
just need to survive the adolescent
years. The teenage years are all about Teenagers do not
pain, confusion, and terror. become adults and completely inde-
pendent at the end of adolescence.
: Hormones make In reality, they are moving from de-
teenagers go crazy. pendence to interdependence – the
ability to depend on you and your
: At the end of ad- ability to depend on them.
olescence, teenagers become adults
and are completely independent.
In his new book, , Dr. Dan
Siegel debunks all three of the myths
about teenagers above. Instead, he
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