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Originally Posted by ddoering
Justifying bad behavior as being a natural thing because their brains aren't fully formed is a specious arguement. I guess you are saying they don't know right from wrong.  |
No.
I'm not justifying their behaviors, just pointing out that such behaviors are fairly common among the 13-27 yo group due in great part because of forebrain development which, when developed fully, helps our reasoning and tempering of such emotional impulsivity.
I'm as guilty as anyone for saying and doing things I wish I could re-do during that period in my life as many of my friends and I were of this club:
"Hey...let's do such and such!"
"Great idea!" {which proved to be not such a great idea on a bunch of occasions}
"Oh, crap...what were we thinking!"
"Yeah - we'll never do that again!" {until the next time when we did something else that was just as impulsive, poorly thought-out, and downright dumb}
When reminiscing, I fell pretty fortunate for having survived that part of my growing up years.
And so it goes...
Richard
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