Why do teenagers rebel, act out etc. the only answers I can get is the word ';hormones';?

It all starts at the crib. If a child doesn't learn when they are3 small what make people think that they will act appropriate when they are adults. It is a parents responsibility to teach their children the basic necessities to being a respectful person. It also has to do with peer pressure and being cowardly towards other peoples and their own perceptions of themselves.Why do teenagers rebel, act out etc. the only answers I can get is the word ';hormones';?
forget all the answers they are testing the water and seeing how far they can push youWhy do teenagers rebel, act out etc. the only answers I can get is the word ';hormones';?
research shows that teenagers brains are restructuring at this time, which leads them to be quite messed up, i think teenagers need their private space and a little guidance but only occasionally.
Well, hormones have a lot to do with it, but young people also lack the experience to see that their actions are overreactions and they lack the social skills to modulate their behavior in appropriate ways. Their emotions also overreact and they act on their emotions rather than their rational selves - they act without thinking. Adolescents also have some borderline characteristics in that they fail to modulate their level of emotion, again because they are not applying rationality to the situation and they may be reifying their emotions - treating them as realities instead of transitory emotional feelings that need to be measured against the situation.
Lots of factors! Stress mainly...anger, resentment. Rebellion is healthy if it doesn't harm the child. I was adopted and I went through a rebellious stage and later in life I realized it was because I needed to sort through my emotions towards adoption. And sometimes rebellion is really just peer pressure, kids feel like they need to do ';bad'; things to fit in.
from personal experience, i'd say these reasons.





1) getting to an age where you no longer consider yourself a child and resent being treated as such. but that can be lessened if the teen is trusted and respected a bit. i found that my friends who had parents who didn't trust them and snooped in their stuff rebelled far more than the others. i suppose it makes sense, every action has an equal and opposite reaction and all that...





2) teens have come from being a child, where insecurities don't really exist, to suddenly being riddled with them. that's a major stress in itself.





3) parents don't ';understand them'; and to a degree theyre pretty spot on there. most adults have forgotten how **** high school is and what pressures there are to deal with. very often kids will rebel out of frustration towards their parents, unable to articulate why it is they're so pissd off.





and hormones of course :)
BE Sides hormones what most people don't realize is that a teenager's brain is also changing. A teenager's brain under goes more changes during the ages of 13 to 20 than at any other time of their life except while in utero and the first 3 years of life. While their brains are under going these changes some time the teens don't think as clearly as they should. These is one of the reasons that they make some of the derisions that they do.
One reason is that brains are not fully formed until well into the twenties. Teenagers therefore, are all suffering from a brain deficiency.
Well take it from me, I usually get pretty ticked off when I'm tired.


Usually things that happen in school can be a factor.





After going to sleep late and waking up early to go to school, getting dumped by your girlfriend failing a test and to come home to having to deal with angry parents is the last thing we want.





But after my parents gave me my space, I eventually complied and I've become much more mature.





Don't get me wrong though, its not like we are never going to talk back and be mad sometimes, its natural; a phase.





Hope I helped.





P.S the above content is not what happens to me on a daily basis by any means lol.
Simply because they grow up into realization they don麓t need to take this crap anymore.
I always put it down to an essential evolutionary step 鈥?young people finding themselves and their place in the world by challenging the established order until such time as they find a new equilibrium or the established order itself moves on. This comfortable theory was upset by two pieces of scientific research.





The first (which I know I have somewhere safe but can鈥檛 lay my hands on right now) reported on how adolescents lose the ability to accurately interpret facial expressions and so fail to empathise properly. It is a temporary mental dysfunction that recovers around the end of the teenage years. There is more to it than that but I鈥檇 be bluffing if I tried to flesh it out any more without the source material.





The second was a report (March 2007) by Sheryl Smith, Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Centre who found that a hormone we naturally produce to have a calming effect in response to stress, has the opposite effect in adolescents. The hormone (THP) was thought to contribute to the mood swings and increased anxiety exhibited by many adolescents.





Add to these the naturally raging hormones of young people, the social pressures they feel and their lack of experience in dealing with these feelings and the potential for 'frank exchanges of views' becomes quite marked.





There could still be evolutionary advantages in the phenomena, whatever their cause but I鈥檇 imagine that is not the first thing that springs to a parent鈥檚 mind when faced with a defiant teenager.





Having been a royal pain in the backside myself, I do feel that a belief in something you have challenged yet come around to is more powerful than an obedient acceptance of it so, miraculous though it is that my parents let me survive, early rebellion has probably helped me to become a more balanced person as I matured 鈥? well, a bit anyway.
Because they do not want to have to conform to the ';House'; rules, ';School'; rules, ';The'; rules.





You could say that they as teenagers are obsessed with ';What they want'; in their ';Little Bubble'; and anything outside it like sisters and brothers and parents are not important.





Then you have their friends telling them that they ';shouldn't put up with cr@p from your parents.'; So your on a losing battle from the start.





I also feel that it is the television plays a big part in it too.





ADDITIONAL:





The ';Hormone'; theory was put to the test some 18 years ago and that theory was well and truly put to bed as it has no foundation or truth in it. The argument that their brains are developing is also out the window because your brain is constantly changing on a daily basis and by that measure then, we all should still be gobby, arrogant self opinionated stuck up anti-social teenagers.
Um, yeah, hormones have SO much to do with all the major upheavals in life, not just the teenage rebellion, also the midlife crisis, the pheremonal swings that happen when we can least deal with them, the menopause (for men %26amp;women).





Don't dismiss hormones, they really are one of life's mysteries to the poor masses!
Why did YOU do it? Answer that and I think you can ignore all that we have written!





Love %26amp; light.
It is a biologically volatile time in life - 2nd to infancy and early childhood. There is a reason we do not remember most of that ;) Your body changes at a very fast rate, and your hormones are out of control for a bit, you are a victim of your body.





Mentally though, the adolescent begins to understand adult concepts of reality, but still with a child's mind. This is plagued by parental controls which can truly be a struggle for a strong willed adolescent. The outlet for all of this combined stress is different for each adolescent. But there is a distinct change in perception in this stage which is sometimes difficult to process. The good news is you grow out of it early adulthood is just as strange but in a more stable body. I'm glad I survived it personally, and never have to go through it again!