Teenagers And Teenage Behavior

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Introduction
Parenting is the supporting of physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood. Raising a child takes a lot of time, patient, and consistency. The one and the most difficult growth of childhood is teenagers. There are the most difficult people to cope with because of the different emotions and their belligerent behavior. Many parents wonder why teenagers behave the way he or she do. For me going through that stage of age, I question myself what make teenagers act out and behave in such incomprehensible moods and behavior. Is it nature or nurture? Is it the household they live in? Is it hormones? PBS Frontline take a look in the brain of teenage along with scientist who exploring the neurological access of a teenager to answer the behavioral mood. The video and the research study should be able to help change the parental skills, teach, and understand a teenager.
Summary and Ethical Relation
PBS Frontline team went on an exploration to discover the behavioral mood and understanding of teenagers in America to explain why teenagers have such manners. In this study, the participating scientist are studying the growth and brain change of pre-teen and teenager. In the video, it shows the interaction between a parent and teenager and siblings in a course of argument, sleep pattern and education, and how a teenager’s interaction is different from home and school. Watching this video, it begins with the O’Donnell family trying to get their son, Charlie out of bed and ready for school. When ask to get up, he react in a sort of negative tone and when he came for breakfast, he was ask about his study in which he answer in such of inconsiderate manner to what he do not care about hi...

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...a sense of justice as being gradually acquired by children as they grow and contends that necessity to teach moral attitudes, build relations, communication, and understand life to children are conditions of human life (p. 315).
Conclusion
As I watched this video, I learned a lesson about how the teenage brain construct and what type of interaction to look when it comes to a parent/child society. In the criminal justice system, a teenager attitude can lead to many justification as far as fairness, applying Rawlsian theory of social justice, and getting into trouble with the law and maybe getting away with a situation. As teenagers are being misunderstood, Rawlsian theory can be applied in criminal justice system and social justice to overcome many inequalities to access justice. From looking at this video, maybe parents can learn from another family and scientist.

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