In this month’s Maggie Moment, parenting author, educator, and host of the ‘Parental As Anything’ and ‘Good Enough Dad’ podcasts, Maggie Dent explains how your teen's brain is growing lots of extra dendrites and grey matter so they struggle with big feelings, and they can be unpredictable and hard on themselves.
This is also a time of incredible potential - they learn faster than any other time in their life, other than under the age of 5. However this means they can also learn the things we don't want them to learn...
Celebrate the opportunities they can get excited about - playing sports, learning a language, playing a musical instrument, the potential is endless.
During this exciting window of potential, the downside is a window of potential risk, and risky behaviour. Love and understanding can keep our kids safe on this transition journey.
