To wonder if some teens regress into toddlers?

[RedTartanLass]

I've just caught my DS15 throwing burning paper out his bedroom window, he's managed to burn a huge hole in his carpet. I mean what the godam fuck!!

This month he's managed to forget to go to his job (kp at local pub) forgot to take his school bag to school, and went to an after school activity on the day he gets picked up from school. A routine we have done for 3 years.

I feel like he's an overgrown toddler! I'm calming down as I'm writing this, he is normally such a good lad. He works 8 hours a week, trains hard for his sport. Does his own washing and helps a lot around this house.

His mock GCSEs are next week, do you think it's a diversion from revising?

I feel I can't trust him enough to leave alone in the house whilst I'm at work.

Do you think it was a one off?

Bloody kids!

Yes they do. There are parts of their brains that become less active during this time

Confusedbeetle - OMG really?? That would explain sooooo much, could you point me to some research please? That would help me so much!

A major new study, just published by Berlin’s Max Planck Institute, is the latest to find that teenagers go through the same rewiring between the age of 13 and 17 as they did when they were toddlers.

I didn't know this!!! It explains everything!! Thank god! Genuinely thought he was regressing mentally with some sort of condition!! Especially when I found him burning paper!

Thank you so much @Confusedbeetle

Someone once told me that when dealing with teens you should subtract 10 years from their age then deal with them like you would have then they were that age. That makes your DS5. It makes a lot of sense!

yu. Ive had it explained to me proerly but im cant remember the science words haha. Basically its something to do with the brain takimg a jump backward before it can go forward if that made any sense at all.

omg excuse my typos!! Fat thumbs here!

They genuinely do. Proven now.

They're basically toddlers with bigger vocabularies in many ways. Their sense of risk, understanding acceptable behaviour, need to push away from parents....yup. Giant toddlers.