Fun facts about teenagers
By: Dr Dad
Tags: Teenagers, Teens And Social Media, Teenage, Teens, Drdad

The magical age or teenage is one era no human being wants to miss. It is one of the most fantastic times for anyone. People usually adore this age. It starts at the age of 13 and lasts up to the age of 19.

Fun Facts about Teenagers

There are several facts about teenagers that you should know. They may be weird or amazing but will be fun for sure. Learning about some of them may explain their behavior and thought process, which we usually cannot get much sense out of.

Here are some fun facts about them:

For teenagers, managing time is a big issue.

One of the things that we usually see in teenagers nowadays is that it is challenging to remember future tasks. It doesn’t mean they cannot remember things, but they lack the sense of works or things to do in the future. It doesn’t matter if they miss it, and it is like it’s just going above their head. Teaching benefits of many things like timetable is very necessary from your side is required to keep them on a regular schedule.

Teenagers have a fundamental quality of taking risks.

Just as a developing brain, it starts to make a final impression on the person. Things like more grasp of speed, time, and direction. It starts to remove unnecessary connections. In all this, the part used to make sensible decisions and plan and analyze risks is developed at last, and therefore, they are still behind on a fully functional frontal lobe to make such things happen. At this stage, a certain level of guidance is necessary from their parents’ side or teachers.

Teenagers have more risk of getting addicted.

Usually, a chemical called dopamine levels, also called the feel-good hormone, is less in teenagers. Contrary to this, achieving or completing some goal or just by getting something they want, the hormone levels called dopamine are hugely increased. Studies say it increases more than adult’s general levels. This thing is excellent, but one risk associated with this is that when they find something that shakes the hell out of themselves and makes them high, such as weed or addictive drugs, they may become more addictive for the experience leads to severe addiction in the future.

Teenagers have a tendance to make you hostile

This is happening due to a scientific reason. To interpret people’s facial expressions teenagers, rely more on their primitive back brain. Due to their age, their frontal part is still developing. They shift towards back more often. But this same part is also used to identify extreme situations like threats and dangers. Many times, your behavior may look hostile, even if it isn’t, to them. A probable solution to this problem is that they need to be prepared beforehand to make them comfortable to present their emotions. They should also be taught that they should talk and discuss themselves and situations before taking any action.

Teenagers face a natural state of sleep schedule.

One more fact is that it is not always the teenager’s fault when he/she falls asleep late at night or wakes up late. It usually comes for most teenagers that they typically don’t sleep early, and as a result, they wake up late. The feeling of sleepiness is caused by a chemical called melatonin, which the brain releases to make a person sleepy. In teenagers’ case, this chemical is released late at night and due to that may affect wake up timings. According to many pieces of research, teenagers required as much sleep as a small kid. Around 9–10 hours of sleep is told to be adequate for teenagers. One study even shows the link between the sleeping hours of students and their results. Parents must make sure that their boy/girl is getting a sufficient amount of sleep.

Somethings can be more demanding of them than you think.

Dealing with peer pressure is not as easy as it sounds to you. As a grown-up having a teenage child, our life has more experience than the child. We are not so easily affected by the people around us, and more of that, a lot of understanding is there. But as a teenager, they may often face a lot of peer pressure, and one of the reasons is that they don’t want the kids of their age to hate them or judge them as friendship is a big part of their life. Another research found that teens had 40% to 60% more accidents while playing a racing game when they were being watched. They were more susceptible to take risks when they were told that friends were watching them. It proves fighting peer pressure is not very easy for them.

They have more ability to make friends

Yes, teenagers have much more able to make friends than you. There are two aspects to it. First is that ability to make more friends may be a generational issue. As we age, we tend to lose interest in people and also lose many friends. But a teenager has more chance of making long-lasting friendships. Another is that in today’s era, the world has become one big global village. We can access millions of people from social media platforms etc. all these things enhance the possibility for them to have more friendships.

Eighteen years of age is not of much significance.

When teenagers are 18 years of age, they get several rights, such as voting and all. They are termed “Adults,” but in reality, even after those rights, it cannot be said that they are fully matured. The brain’s parts that make decisions are found not to be fully developed until they get to 25 years of age. It may vary from person to person.