You’ll learn the science behind why your teenager says they hate you and pushes the limits on what’s safe. In an intriguing venture into what most of us don’t usually think of, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain teaches us a lot about the teenage brain. And all of the frustrating symptoms of being a teenager are just signs that this transformation is working. Much of what happens in our adolescence shapes and defines our adult lives. What most of us don’t stop to think about is the fact that this age is a significant time of mental development. Now that we’re adults, though, we wonder how anybody could act in this way. We all remember the awkwardness, angst, and risky behavior of the teenage years. I still couldn’t help but get frustrated with them sometimes, but I remember how hard it was to be that age. But over time I grew to love them as if they were my own siblings. As a former high-school student teacher, I know how hard they can be. Teenagers are the group of people that people hate to love but also love to hate.
In this groundbreaking audiobook, Siegel offers teens and parents a road map for understanding the adolescent mind that will help families not just survive but also thrive through the “teenage years” and beyond.Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*: Drawing on important new research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology, he explores exciting ways in which understanding how the brain functions can improve the lives of adolescents, making their relationships more fulfilling and less lonely and distressing on both sides of the generational divide.
Siegel presents listeners with an inside-out approach to focusing on how brain development affects our behavior and relationships.
According to Siegel, during adolescence we learn important skills, such as how to leave home and enter the larger world, how to connect deeply with others, and how to safely experiment and take risks, thereby creating strategies for dealing with the world’s increasingly complex problems. In Brainstorm, the renowned psychiatrist and bestselling author of Parenting from the Inside Out, The Whole-Brain Child, and Mindsight, Daniel Siegel busts a number of commonly held myths about adolescence - for example, that it is merely a stage of “immaturity” filled with often “crazy” behavior - to reveal how it is in fact a vital time in our lives in terms of charting the course for the adults we ultimately become. Between the ages of twelve and twenty-four, the brain changes in important and, at times, challenging ways.
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