I've seen belly buttons and eye-brows pierced on both grunge type teens as well as very sporty mainstream types of kids. I once heard a mother with a row full of earrings down her left ear complain that her sixteen year old daughter was going overboard with the body piercing caper. It's not smart to be cooler than your adolescent. By arrangement with Parenting Ideas 6. The young child who may have looked up to his or her parents as wise and possessing some savvy as an adolescent reminds them about how little they actually know.
Teenagers commonly think that there's is the first generation to reach puberty.
You just don't understand. Fathers often suffer from the Clarke Kent syndrome when their sons reach full-blown adolescence. Young boys invariably put their fathers on a pedestal holding them in some superman-type awe. However when they reach fifteen or sixteen they go to great lengths to prove that their fathers like Clarke Kent are human and fallible. This fall from grace can be hurtful for many fathers.