How to help high-school students stay focused on your studies!
Since we were all once teenagers, I think we can all have a certain level of empathy for that stage in your life where everything was exciting and new, as well as incredibly daunting, overstimulating, and frustrating; all the while dealing with these emotions with a brain that is not fully developed to cope or sustain such high levels of adrenaline.
As a parent however, with the gift of hindsight to not only now know that we were all dramatic and overwhelmed as an adolescent; but understanding the importance of studying being critical to your final years in high school.
Burning question from this; how do we help our teenagers to stay focused on their studies?
To understand how to help, we first need to understand how the adolescent brain works. The teenage brain has not reached full development, and their decisions can be different than what is expected by adults. Teens can understand and interpret viewpoints that differ from their own, however, with the underdeveloped part of their brain being the prefrontal cortex; quite often firmly believe their own perception is the most true or valid. This is a common practice of adolescents, but it can be difficult for parents to deal with that behavior. This may manifest into the following ideologies that are somewhat lacking in proper education, examination, or research but have something different, unique or captivating about it that would likely entice a teenage brain into positively responding to it.This happens for a lot of reasons, however the two huge factors that pays a role are self-identity and our prefrontal cortex.
Growing up as a child, most children will see their parents as their role models and agree or act like their examples until puberty.
Then they start being exposed to new ideas and ideologies from their peers (and their ideologies from their parents), role models or celebrities.
All of a sudden, they have all this new information and different concepts introduced to them; all the while being processed through a brain that hasn’t finished developing the part that helps you to inhibit impulses and to plan and organize your behaviour to reach a goal.
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