Adolescents do not consider their immature brains to be the problem, rather their parents. In fact, it’s about the same thing: the parents are substituting for the adolescent’s immature prefrontal cortex (PFC).

The parents must take care of the planning, organisation, moral framework and the behavioural limits during the period in which the adolescent’s PFC is still immature. These are the functions that the adolescent’s slowly maturing PFC will gradually take over. The problem is that the adolescents of today have realised that their parents do not have the power to enforce their role as a substitute for the PFC.

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