Good News for Ozzy

[OzzyKP]

The article clearly says there's a sweetspot (duh). If we treated teenagers exactly like adults, then that's an extreme to the other way ('neglectful')

Treating someone like an adult != neglectful

[Asher]

Treating someone like an adult != neglectful

Adults are adults because there are real ramifications for the decisions they make. If you let kids make meaningful decisions ("I'm going to drop out of school in the 10th grade to become a prostitute"), you are being neglectful.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Haha, good parenting is stopping your kids from growing up.

How is preventing a kid from watching Saw IV or making them eat broccoli instead of ice cream preventing someone from growing up?

Funny, I thought the whole point of parenting was to prepare kids for being an adult.

Kids who are allowed to do whatever they want EVENTUALLY BELIEVE THEY ARE ENTITLED TO DO WHATEVER THEY WANT, and grow up to be ****TY adults. That is not good for a healthy stable society. Hollywood kids are not good for the rest of us.

Holding them back for as long as possible not only goes against this idea, but it actually causes damage to their brain development.

How is parenting holding kids back? Maybe, instead of advocating kids acting independent of anyone else's ideals, you should be advocating that parents allow the kids to gradually take their own life over as they age (like not staying up to midnight until a kid shows that he can and can get up and go to school and keep his grades up.) But I feel good parents already do that.

Not to mention lots of damage to their social development.

That's probably true. My mother not allowing me to watch TV shows that objectified women makes it difficult for me to pick up chicks at bars.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Every single article (including in that other thread) that discusses teen brains and their apparent inferiority, uses that as a justification for restricting and controlling youth. This study shows that it is precisely that restriction that is causing their brains to be damaged in the first place.

No it doesn't.

It also relies on a survey to assess the quality of parenthood. The drawback of which is that those with organically damaged brains are more like to inaccurately whimper about their parents. So how can you assess whether it's actually the "symptom" that's causing the "cause"?

[Thoth]

Adults are adults because there are real ramifications for the decisions they make. If you let kids make meaningful decisions ("I'm going to drop out of school in the 10th grade to become a prostitute"), you are being neglectful.

Would it still be neglectful if you offered to be their pimp?