Teenage brain padlet by Zyana Patton https://padlet.com/zyana14/b66fmgh6k95u en-us 2017-05-09 14:24:54 UTC 2025-11-08 06:49:38 UTC hello@padlet.com 5 differences between the adult and teenage brain zyana14 https://padlet.com/zyana14/b66fmgh6k95u/wish/170778225 1. The teenage brain is not able to distinguish emotions on the faces of adults  
Example : A parent may be shocked by an event, and the teen could perceive that as anger and the seemingly harmless situation can then lead an argument caused my miscommunication. ]]> 2017-05-09 14:26:30 UTC https://padlet.com/zyana14/b66fmgh6k95u/wish/170778225 2. The "gut reaction" center of the brain in adolescents is much larger than that of adults. zyana14 https://padlet.com/zyana14/b66fmgh6k95u/wish/170779940 Example: a young boy may yell out something awful at his mother, but later ask himself why he even said that and be confused as well as to where it came from.]]> 2017-05-09 14:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/zyana14/b66fmgh6k95u/wish/170779940 3. Teens are not able to bring in, interpret and organize the environmental stimuli the way adults can. zyana14 https://padlet.com/zyana14/b66fmgh6k95u/wish/170780074 Example:  an adult may ask a teenager to complete a task with high importance and the teen will push it off; this is caused by the outside information not being organized and interpreted by the teen as it was by the adult. ]]> 2017-05-09 14:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/zyana14/b66fmgh6k95u/wish/170780074 4. The teen cerebellum, the part of the brain responsible for coordination and muscle movement, as well as mental task processing, is not fully developed as in the adult brain. zyana14 https://padlet.com/zyana14/b66fmgh6k95u/wish/170780170 Example: teenagers having a rough time getting through, what seems to be a simple issue to adults, in their complicated social lives, results from this area of the brain being less developed than that of the adult brain. ]]> 2017-05-09 14:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/zyana14/b66fmgh6k95u/wish/170780170 5. The brain is made up of gray matter and white matter. Our grey matter matures when we’re about 11 to 12 years old, but the white matter does not completely developed until the early twenties. zyana14 https://padlet.com/zyana14/b66fmgh6k95u/wish/170780278 Example:  a teen may not be able to handle an uproar of emotions as easily as an adult could, causing extreme behaviors, such as aggression. ]]> 2017-05-09 14:32:46 UTC https://padlet.com/zyana14/b66fmgh6k95u/wish/170780278 Ways a parent can help compensate the differences... zyana14 https://padlet.com/zyana14/b66fmgh6k95u/wish/170782602 One way is trying to remember being that age and how you would have reacted; they can use their own experiences with their parents to decide how to react to their teen's behavior. 

Parents can also choose to show their kids that they can relate and treat them as adults, let their brains develop while giving them the right tools and advice to be sure it develops in a positive manner.]]> 2017-05-09 14:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/zyana14/b66fmgh6k95u/wish/170782602