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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Developmentally they are going through a stage of identity formation and beginning to assert their independence. They are starting to see their future adults selves, and starting to move away from being a child. They go through puberty and deal with major surges or hormones. They are exploring intimacy and romance and relationships for the first time. Their friendships and social dynamics become more complex and deal with deeper issues. They experience greater pressures and expectation and responsibility and they don't always yet have the skills to deal with that. They are in a state of idealism and they think they have things figured out. They are aware of impacts but not the full impact and still live in the present and are often impulsive. They start to experiment with things that are new and things that are risky and things that are adventurous. They experience big emotions, fluctuating emotions, and struggle to regulate how they feel. They are a series of contradictions and they assert themselves more.

Not all teens are the same. They all go through this major life transition from child to adult but they take very different roots to get there.

Parents aren't going through the same transition, they still just want to raise their kid to be an adult, but they get taken along for the ride. For some the ride is smoother than for others.

It seems teens either have a really rough go at the start (13-15) or they rebel more later on (16-18) and a few have it rough the whole way through and few sail through.[/quote]

+1.  I'm not even going to bother with the rabbit hole of much of this thread, but to OP, I just wanted to say this explains it perfectly.

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