Parenting a Teen: A Mother Reflects on Her Own Difficult Adolescence

I was a terrible teen. Now my son is turning into one, karma is coming for me | Polly Hudson

My mum loves to remind me how sullen, furious and monosyllabic I was. Now she can’t wait to see how I’ll handle parenting an adolescent The “Baader-Meinhof phenomenon” is a more satisfying name for frequency illusion – noticing a concept, word or product more often just after becoming aware of it. And after reading a fascinating article by a professor who insists that when a teenager makes “the stupid choice”, their brain is actually “working exactly as designed”, I’m suddenly seeing teens e...

By Polly Hudson