It is hard to be a teenager

By: Sally Nash | Tags: adolescence, brain maturation, challenge, confidence, education, Environment, health, learning, psychology, puberty, risk, teenagers, welfare | Comments: 0

Sir Peter Gluckman’s research on how modern society is making it harder than ever to navigate the teen years successfully. Sir Peter Gluckman FRS Being an adolescent now is very different from being one just one or two generations ago and we will not understand the teenage years if we project our own experiences on to them. That makes it hard to be a parent, it makes it hard to be a teenager and it is making for some very difficult challenges for our society. It means we need to […]